Appearances & Goals To Date
Starting Lineup
| Youngest Player: | Roddy MacGregor (19 years 356 days) |
| Oldest Player: | Kirk Broadfoot (37 years 130 days) |
| Average Player Age: | 28 years 276 days |
| Domestic Players: | 7 (63.64 % of starting eleven) |
Matchday Squad
| Youngest Player: | Lewis Jamieson (19 years 270 days) |
| Oldest Player: | Kirk Broadfoot (37 years 130 days) |
| Average Player Age: | 26 years 104 days |
| Domestic Players: | 13 (72.22 % of matchday squad) |
First Team Debuts
Milestones
Cup of woe: Morton took a first half lead just before the break when Robbie Muirhead shot home from outside the box into the bottom corner. Parity was restored a minute into the second half when a Doran free kick ended in the net, possibly aided by the head of Danny Devine or a Morton body. No further scoring sent the game to a penalty shoot-out. Plenty of good penalties on show and with Devine failing to score, Oliver put away the decisive ninth penalty to win the tie. That's our third penalty shoot-out failure this season; meh!
Doran 1 - Reilly 1
McAlear 2 - Lyon 2
Allardice 3 - Ugwu 3
Jamieson 4 - Muirhead 4
Devine 4 - Oliver 5
Morton through 5-4 to face Motherwell.
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This was the first of a double header against the 'Ton as we play them again on Saturday in the Championship. No doubt that is more important for both clubs, especially given our good result against Killie, and for different reasons given Morton's result against Ayr in the bottom half of the table, but a wee Cup run always cheers up the fans.
With Gus MacPherson being relieved of his duties, the team will be led in the interim by Head of Youth Academy, Derek Anderson, supported by Assistant Manager Andy Millen and Reserve Team Coach, John Sutton.
Storm Barra was beginning to kick in and travel conditions were getting chaotic throughout the day with the threat of a call-off lingering like a bad smell. Despite this, make it we did to Cappielow with an unchanged side and Manny Duku made the bench.
Unfortunately for us, we failed to capitalise on another game that we largely dominated. Other than the goals, Shane Sutherland came close with a header but Hamilton pulled off an instinctive save from 5 yards to deny Caley Jags.
Match report written by tm4tj
