Dundee edge out Greenock Morton

Dundee United edged out Greenock Morton to go 2nd in the Scottish Champion in a video game that really only revived in the 2nd half.

James Keatings as well as Scott McDonald both scored their 3rd goals of the season to maintain Ray McKinnon’s men in contact with Dunfermline on top.

Bob McHugh briefly brought Morton degree but they might not discover a second goal.

The gap on top rests at 2 points however St Mirren could go back to within a factor of the leaders on Sunday.

The Buddies host Queen of the South.

Paul McMullan, Fraser Fyvie as well as Keatings all needed to turn to long-range initiatives prior to McMullan picked out Keatings with an excellent 34th min pass and also the striker’s header brought a fantastic one-handed save from Morton keeper Derek Gaston.

Morton were content to hit on the break and possibilities were infrequent, although Ross Forbes did flash the round just past the article to offer the away followers some hope.

The video game was craving an objective as well as it came midway via the second fifty percent when McMullan’s pass into the box found Keatings and he sent off a good left-foot shot past Gaston.

Morton came back in the video game when Forbes went across deep right into package for Robert Thomson to lay the ball back and replace McHugh prodded in his fifth goal of the season past Harry Lewis.

At that phase it resembled either side might win it, but it was United that got the victor when McDonald was in the best area at the right time to nick the round home after Mark Durnan’s effective header had actually crashed back to the previous Celtic and also Motherwell guy off the article.

The house fans in the 4,569-crowd who had been restless at half-time, applauded their side to the rafters at the end as they established an extremely yummy journey to Dunfermline next week.