19th Aug 1981 Partick Thistle 1 Dundee United 2 (League Cup Section 4 - game 4)

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Match Information

35y, 1m, 2d			Peter Cormack		Jim McLean
Iain Jardine; George Clark
Donald Park; Willie Gibson
Maurice Johnston (1-2, 87 mins)					Paul Sturrock (0-1, 10 mins); Eamonn Bannon (0-2, 38 mins)
Alex O'Hara (Maurice Johnston, 72 mins); Iain Jardine (Ian McDonald, 80 mins)					Willie Pettigrew (Davie Dodds, 72 mins)
29y, 8m, 25d			Alan Rough		Hamish McAlpine
25y, 2m, 27d			Dave MacKinnon		John Holt
29y, 8m, 26d			John Lapsley		Frank Kopel
35y, 5m, 23d			Jackie Campbell		Iain Phillip
24y, 10m, 27d			Brian Whittaker		Derek Stark
25y, 7m, 14d			Kenny Watson		Dave Narey
27y, 2m, 16d			Tony Higgins		Eamonn Bannon
23y, 6m, 2d			Iain Jardine		Ralph Milne
24y, 9m, 29d			Alex O'Hara		Willie Pettigrew
19y, 10m, 18d			Jamie Doyle		Paul Sturrock
23y, 1m, 4d			George Clark		Richard Gough
26y, 3m, 16d
18y, 4m, 6d			Maurice Johnston		Paul Hegarty
22y, 7m, 24d			Ian McDonald		Davie Dodds

Match Report

TTA report

Only 1,760 fans saw United's comfortable win. Gibson and Park were dropped. Clark went close early on but once United took the lead (10) the result was never in doubt. A short pass-back by Lapsley almost made it 2-0 (22) but a header did (38). A cracking left-foot drive by Johnston (on his debut, 87) meant little.

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Daily Record, 20th August, 1981

Stats Watch

● 18-year-old Maurice Johnston makes his Thistle debut and joins our scoring debutants club.

ongoing sequences:

● 20 consecutive competitive appearances for Jackie Campbell, 28th Jan 1981 to date. (Longest run since: Kenny Watson - 44 games, 9th Aug 1980 to 11th Apr 1981. Club-record: Johnny Jackson - 313 games, 28th Aug 1926 to 25th Mar 1933.)

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