Dundee United 2-1 Rangers: result and report
Premiership · Saturday 17 March 2012
Result
Dundee United 2-1 Rangers
Premiership · Saturday 17 March 2012, 12:45 UTC · half-time 1-0
Dundee United 2-1 Rangers: match report
Dundee United beat Rangers 2-1 in the Premiership on Saturday 17 March 2012. The half-time score was 1-0.
Keith Watson opened the scoring in the 37th minute. Dundee United's goals came from Keith Watson (37') and Jonathan Daly (47'). Rangers scored through Sone Aluko (60').
Discipline: Dundee United received 2 yellow cards; Rangers received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Dundee United were 4th on 40 points from 29 and Rangers 2nd on 64 points from 29. Dundee United went on to finish that season 4th with 59 points, and Rangers 2nd with 83.
Dundee United lined up in a 4-4-2 and Rangers in a 4-3-2-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Dundee United wins, 1 draw and 7 for Rangers.
Going into the match Dundee United's last five read W-W-W-D-W and Rangers's L-W-L-W-W.
Key events
- 14'Yellow card · Keith Watson
- 21'Yellow card · A. Mitchell
- 37'Goal · Keith Watson
- 45'Yellow card · Gavin Gunning
- 47'Goal · Jonathan Daly
- 60'Goal · Sone Aluko
- 64'Yellow card · Lee McCulloch
- 75'Yellow card · Ross Perry
- 77'Yellow card · R. McCabe
Head-to-head
Team news
Dundee United line-up (4-4-2)
Dušan Perniš, Sean Dillon, Paul Dixon, Keith Watson, Gavin Gunning, Willo Flood, John Rankin, Gary Mackay-Steven, Johnny Russell, Scott Robertson, Jonathan Daly
Rangers line-up (4-3-2-1)
Allan McGregor, Ross Perry, Maurice Edu, Steven Davis, Alejandro Bedoya, Andrew Mitchell, Rhys McCabe, Salim Kerkar, Andrew Little, Lee McCulloch, Lee Wallace