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St Johnstone 0 - 0 St Mirren

St Johnstone 0-0 St Mirren

St Johnstone were denied a hat-trick of wins over St Mirren this season as the Clydesdale Bank Premier League clash at McDiarmid Park ended in a stalemate.

St Mirren goalkeeper Paul Gallacher tipped Chris Millar's curling effort on to the bar and saved Collin Samuel's strike in the first half as the hosts extended their unbeaten run to four.

Derek McInnes' side have now lost once in their last eight games, but visitors St Mirren created little as they missed the opportunity to build on their 6-1 Scottish Cup success at Peterhead in midweek.

St Johnstone are now unbeaten in their last 12 games against the Buddies, who last won the battle of the Saints in August 2005.

But McInnes' men will need to show more quality to break into the top six by the time of the SPL split, while Danny Lennon's side showed the battling qualities which will be required to boost their survival bid in a scrappy encounter.

The hosts were looking for a third win of the season over St Mirren, having won the two previous SPL meetings, and entered the game in confident mood.

The Perth side had lost once in their previous seven matches - all but one of them away from home - and last week won at in-form Hearts in the Scottish Cup and drew with high-flying Killie at Rugby Park.

St Johnstone had the better of a poor first half.

After a Michael Higdon free-kick was blocked, Paddy Cregg thought he had been fouled by Dave Mackay on the edge of the area, but the Buddies were awarded only a corner which came to nothing.

St Johnstone then had a good spell of pressure, but failed to breach the visiting defence.

Mackay mis-kicked an effort following a short free-kick, before visiting goalkeeper Gallacher was called into action twice in quick succession.

Chris Millar saw his curling effort from the edge of the area tipped on to the top of the crossbar before the Buddies goalkeeper saved a Samuel strike low down to his left from the resulting corner.

Jim Goodwin and Michael Duberry then had to be separated after the St Mirren defender's lunge on Steven Anderson which saw him booked.

Goodwin headed wide from a corner before Millar shot wide across goal at the other end as the first half ended in level.

Jure Travner's long-range effort after 55 minutes was caught comfortably by Peter Enckelman, but was significant as the visitors' first effort on target.

Steven Thomson sliced high and wide from Higdon's lay-off soon after.

Sam Parkin was replaced by Liam Craig after 62 minutes as McInnes looked to inject fresh impetus into his side.

Samuel moved in from the left flank to join Peter MacDonald up front, with Craig cutting in from the left to support the strikers.

MacDonald fired tamely at Gallacher after Murray Davidson won the ball inside the visitors' half as St Johnstone again failed to sufficiently test the goalkeeper.

McInnes brought off left-back Danny Grainger for forward Cleveland Taylor, while Danny Lennon also made a change with Craig Dargo coming on for Marc McAusland.

Craig shot over following a partially-cleared corner before Mair was booked for pulling down Taylor.

Samuel was replaced by Stevie May for the final three minutes before Thomson again sliced wide for St Mirren.

Enckelman held Goodwin's long-range effort in stoppage time before May shot wide from a corner at the other end as the match ended goalless.

 

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Derby County attacker Kris Commons in talks with Rangers

Rangers manager Walter Smith has confirmed that the club are in talks with Derby County's Kris Commons following the departure of striker Kenny Miller.

The English-born Scotland international is out of contract at Pride Park in the summer and it is looking as though Derby will sell in January rather than allow him to leave for nothing in the summer – a similar decision Rangers took with Miller, who left for Turkish champions Bursaspor last week.

Smith has admitted that he is not in charge of handling the deals done with proposed players, but believes Commons is a fitting replacement for his Turkey bound striker.

Smith told reporters: "I don't do the deals, Martin Bain carries out that job.
"He was in discussion with them this morning, but I've not had anything back yet.

"It's important, with us having a small squad of players, if we do get a player in, that he can play in more than one position. Kris can do that."

Meanwhile, Smith insisted that his team will not be bringing striker Kris Boyd back from Middlesbrough.

"It's a simple one, that one," said Smith when asked about Boyd's possible return.

"We couldn't afford to pay the money that Middlesbrough were paying last season and we are still in that position where we can't afford to pay it now."

 

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Scottish ne tenggelam dek kehebatan liga BPL.permainan derang pon ok.

da lama SPL tenggelam ngan BPL
kalau tgk game dorg best jgk
cam BPL jgk cuma promosi je kurg

 

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Lennon will not quit - agent

Neil Lennon will not walk away from Celtic despite threats made against him, according to his agent Martin Reilly.

Lennon, 39, has had bullets sent to him through the post and a suspicious package addressed to him intercepted this season, leading to speculation about his future.

However, Reilly is confident that Lennon will stay at Celtic Park.

"He was a winner as a player and he's a winner as a manager,'' Reilly told the BBC. "As far as quitting as a manager goes, it's not in his nature.''

Reilly claims that Lennon would not discuss his future until the end of the season.

"We will have these discussions at the end of the season, but all Neil wants to do at the moment is concentrate on his job,'' he said. "He's got a contract to fight for, a six-month rolling contract, so he's got things like that to sort out in his life but he's got to put up with all this stuff off the park as well.

"He certainly hasn't spoken about quitting or walking out on the club, but I dare say it must have gone through his mind because it's certainly gone through mine.''

 

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Celtic's Majstorovic sidelined

Celtic defender Daniel Majstorovic is set to miss the Scottish Cup final against Rangers and could be absent for the SPL title run-in after fracturing a toe on his right foot.

Majstorovic, a Sweden international, was forced off at half-time of last Saturday's 2-0 win over Hamilton and could be out for up to eight weeks, ruling him out of the March 20 Old Firm final at Hampden.

A statement on the club's official website read: "Daniel Majstorovic could be missing for up to eight weeks after picking up an injury in Saturday's 2-0 win over Hamilton.

"The big defender was forced to come off at half-time and was replaced by Thomas Rogne. After the match, it was discovered that he had suffered a fractured right toe.

"And following a specialist consultation, it's been estimated the Swedish international will be out of action for six to eight weeks.''

 

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SFA charge Lennon & McCoist

Celtic manager Neil Lennon and Rangers assistant manager Ally McCoist have been charged with misconduct following the ugly scenes at the end of the Scottish Cup fifth round replay between the two sides on March 2, the Scottish FA have announced.

A Scottish FA statement read: "The Scottish FA can confirm that Neil Lennon, the Celtic manager, and Ally McCoist, the Rangers assistant manager, have been charged with misconduct relating to the Scottish Cup fifth-round replay.

"Mr Lennon will incur an automatic four-match suspension from the technical area, owing to a previous charge of misconduct, while Mr McCoist will incur a two-match suspension. These will be effective from March 16, 2011.

"In addition, the Rangers players, El-Hadji Diouf and Madjid Bougherra, have been informed that they will be reported to the disciplinary committee for misconduct of a significantly serious nature. These will be considered at the committee's next meeting, on April 12.''

Lennon was already subject of a four-match ban and already banished to the stands for the March 20 Co-operative Insurance Cup final with Rangers at Hampden Park, but now McCoist will join him in being banned from the touchline, unless he appeals the decision.

 

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Dundee Utd 2 - 1 Hamilton

Daly back with a bang

Jon Daly scored an injury-time winner on his comeback from hernia surgery to secure Dundee United a third Clydesdale Bank Premier League win in little over a week - 2-1 against Hamilton.

Daly slotted home almost two minutes after regulation time had elapsed following a clever pass from David Goodwillie, who had levelled just before the interval.

Flavio Paixao had claimed a richly-deserved opener for a Hamilton side featuring just one natural defender and the bottom club were denied a strong penalty claim in the latter stages of the second half.

The Tayside club are now just two points behind fourth-placed Kilmarnock following wins over Inverness, Aberdeen and luckless Accies, who remain seven points adrift and without a win since October.

United manager Peter Houston admitted he would leave players out with Sunday's Scottish Cup quarter-final against Motherwell in mind, although he had no choice but to lose Craig Conway after the winger aggravated a thigh injury in Monday's 3-1 win over Aberdeen.

Danny Swanson and Prince Buaben dropped to the bench with Johnny Russell, Andis Shala and David Robertson promoted.

Mark McLaughlin joined Martin Canning on the injured list for Hamilton to leave them short of defenders.

Their central defence comprised David Elebert and Simon Mensing, who made his name as a midfielder, and wingers Dougie Imrie and Jim McAlister started at full-back.

Hamilton's makeshift defence was rarely tested in the opening half hour as they controlled possession with Paixao, Gary McDonald and Ali Crawford all supporting centre-forward Mickael Antoine-Curier.

Accies created the first chance when Paixao headed Imrie's cross into the path of McDonald, who was closed down as he aimed a side-footed effort towards the bottom corner from 15 yards, with Dusan Pernis getting down to hold.

The visitors came closer when Barry Douglas cleared Mensing's header off the line following Crawford's corner.

Hamilton soon took the lead from another corner in the 26th minute. Imrie swung the ball beyond the far post and Mensing headed over Pernis into the goalmouth, where United captain Scott Robertson and Paixao challenged in the air. One of them headed the ball into the roof of the net, with Paixao running away to celebrate.

The Portuguese winger almost doubled the lead when he ran onto Jon Routledge's diagonal ball and fired a bouncing volley just wide from 25 yards.

United got in behind their visitors for the first time when Russell sped away from Mensing, but Imrie read his low cross and flicked the ball to safety as Goodwillie prepared to finish.

The hosts continued to improve and got a break in the 42nd minute when a Douglas corner fell kindly for Goodwillie, who lashed the ball into the roof of the net from six yards.

Paixao carved out the first chance of the second half but Antoine-Curier failed to connect properly with a header despite getting away from Timothy van der Meulen.

Mensing headed wide after another deep corner by Imrie before Goodwillie shot over from a tight angle after negotiating his way past three men.

Hamilton club captain Alex Neil, who made a brief but aborted comeback in October, came on for the injured Mark Carrington around the hour mark.

United began to push Hamilton back and brought on Buaben and Swanson in a bid to find some creativity with the former almost proving the difference with a 30-yard snap-shot that Tomas Cerny dived to push over.

Imrie moved from left-back to centre-forward following the introduction of Gavin Skelton but again a United substitute almost had an instant impact as Daly just failed to connect properly with a Douglas corner.

McAlister drove just wide from 20 yards at the other end and United had a huge let-off in the 79th minute when Van der Meulen brought down Imrie.

The Hamilton player looked at least a yard inside the box but referee Willie Collum awarded a free-kick.

Accies almost snatched a late winner when Routledge's first-time effort drifted just over the top corner following Imrie's cutback.

But they were undone when Goodwillie's neat reverse pass freed Daly to slot into the bottom corner from 14 yards.

 

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Houston hails matchwinner Daly

Dundee United manager Peter Houston hailed the recovery powers of Jon Daly after the striker netted an injury-time winner against Hamilton three weeks after undergoing hernia surgery.

''Jonny was feeling really good and doing all the running and working with the physio,'' Houston said. ''The physio and our doctor wouldn't give him permission until we spoke to the guy who performed the operation.

''He told Jon 'if you're feeling all right, get on with it'. Big Daly hasn't trained an awful lot for a few weeks but he was good for 20 minutes. And I feel his presence helped. He had been doing well and scoring goals before he went out. Goodwillie sets him up brilliantly but it's a good finish from him.''

The Tayside club still have a game in hand over Kilmarnock following consecutive wins over Inverness, Aberdeen and luckless Accies, who remain seven points adrift and without a win since October.

''We never played well and we were second to the ball at times but we've got nine out of nine in the last three games and we have played better and only picked up one point,'' Houston added.

Hamilton manager Billy Reid struggled to believe how his side had failed to take anything from a game they dominated until Goodwillie lashed home from six yards after the ball fell kindly for him following a 42nd-minute corner.

''I thought first half we controlled the game, we weren't under any pressure at all,'' Reid said. ''My team talk up until two minutes before half-time was 'great we've controlled it' but to lose the goal was an absolute killer.

''We knew United would come out an pin us back going down the hill. They pinned us back slightly at times but we've had chances and we had a big, big shout for a penalty.

''I think it was in the box but I'm not going to have a go at the referee, I have too much respect for him. That's the kind of wee things that have gone against us. Both teams went for it and we've lost a killer punch numerous times this season. I thought we more than merited a point.''