Dundee 6 - 0 Inverness CT

League Cup - Group D
Saturday, July 27th, 2024, 3:00 PM at Glebe Park, Brechin
Attendance: 1,057
Referee: John Beaton
Dundee Inverness CT

Goalscorers
Simon Murray (1)
Danny Devine (18) own goal
Seb Palmer-Houlden (23)
Simon Murray (29)
Seb Palmer-Houlden (39)
Juan Portales (79)
None.

Team Managers
Tony Docherty Duncan Ferguson

Starting Eleven
Trevor Carson
Jordan McGhee
Luke Graham
Juan Portales
Luke McCowan
Josh Mulligan
Mohamad Sylla
Finlay Robertson
Ethan Ingram
Seb Palmer-Houlden
Simon Murray
Jack Newman
Matthew Strachan
Jake Davidson
Remi Savage
Daniel Devine
Charlie Gilmour
Keith Bray
Calum MacLeod
Luis Longstaff
Adam Brooks
Billy Mckay

Bench
Curtis Main
Jon McCracken
Lyall Cameron
Harrison Sharp
Ryan Astley
Scott Tiffoney
Sebastian Lochhead
Jamie Richardson
Szymon Rebilas
Sam Nixon
Shae Keogh
Robbie Thompson
Calum MacKay
Ben Corner
Cameron Ferguson

Substitutions
Lyall Cameron -> Luke McCowan (45)
Curtis Main -> Seb Palmer-Houlden (58)
Scott Tiffoney -> Simon Murray (58)
Ryan Astley -> Mohamad Sylla (75)
Ben Corner for Adam Brooks (45)
Robbie Thompson for Calum MacLeod (77)
Cameron Ferguson for Billy Mckay (77)
Shae Keogh for Charlie Gilmour (80)
Calum MacKay for Luis Longstaff (80)

Bookings
None. Remi Savage (67)

Red Cards
None. None.
Appearances & Goals To Date
Jack Newman (GK) 4 apps -
Matthew Strachan 10 apps -
Jake Davidson 22 apps1 goal
Daniel Devine 217 apps7 goals
Remi Savage 21 apps1 goal
Charlie Gilmour 38 apps2 goals
Keith Bray 14 apps1 goal
Calum MacLeod 4 apps -
Billy Mckay 297 apps112 goals
Luis Longstaff 38 apps2 goals
Adam Brooks 30 apps5 goals
Robbie Thompson (sub) 13 apps -
Shae Keogh (sub) 4 apps -
Calum MacKay (sub) 7 apps -
Ben Corner (sub) 3 apps -
Cameron Ferguson (sub) 4 apps -

Starting Lineup
Youngest Player:Keith Bray (18 years 122 days)
Oldest Player:Billy Mckay (35 years 287 days)
Average Player Age:23 years 303 days
Domestic Players:7 (63.64 % of starting eleven)

Matchday Squad
Youngest Player:Shae Keogh (17 years 112 days)
Oldest Player:Szymon Rebilas (2026 years 1 days)
Average Player Age:22 years 152 days
Domestic Players:12 (66.67 % of matchday squad)

First Team Debuts

Milestones

Men v Boys



At the neutral venue of Glebe Park, and with a larger than life gap in the away support, Dundee, who were already qualified, made a couple of changes with young defender Luke Graham starting. However hot striker Simon Murray was on from the start with Curtis Main waiting on the bench. Danny Devine had recovered sufficiently to start but Jack Walker was rested after his head knock. Ethan Cairns and Lewis Nicolson are still missing and Niko Ujdur is finally off to Hampden today.

1-0 to Dundee in the first minute. Do we need to get the calculator out? If you answered yes, then that was the correct answer. Five up at the break Dundee cantered home scoring a further goal ten minutes before the end through Portales to round off the scoring.

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Dundee score with their first attack, Palmer-Houlden flicks on to Murray who looped the ball over the keeper and into the net and five minutes later Murray shot from outside the box but the keeper tipped it over the bar. Mulligan played in Murray who lifts the ball over the keeper and into the back of the net after 18 minutes. As expected, Dundee totally dominated the opening twenty minutes with Inverness hanging on at times and a third goal came from Seb Palmer-Houlden in the 23rd minute after he stole the ball from the defender and then slipped it past the keeper into the net. Robertson then played Murray in and he puts the ball through the keepers legs and into the back of the net. There was more to come in a disastrous first half for the young team as Palmer-Houlden found a brilliant finish into the bottom corner of the net after being played in by Ingram.

Half Time: 5-0 The chase is on but we'll need pushbacks.

Nightmare first half but it eased a bit in the second before Cameron’s ball into the box found Portales who headed into the back of the net with ten minutes left.

Goodbye League Cup, thanks for having us!

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Match report written by tm4tj