clyde 2
dundee 5
Scorers: Clyde - Keogh (2) Gilhaney (78); Dundee - Novo (4), Wilkie (66), Ravanelli (73, 74, 80)
THIS was anything but the stroll the scoreline suggests. Lee Wilkie hitting the back of the net is usually cause for depression among the Dundee support but the sometimes Scotland defender scored into the proper posts to spark a second-half slaying of the boisterous Bully Wee.
Within 10 minutes of clambering off the substitutes bench, Fabrizio Ravanelli feasted on Clyde's fatigue and helped himself to a hat trick. Dundee, last year's losing Tennent's Scottish Cup finalists, are now in the hat for today's CIS Insurance Cup fourth- round draw but Clyde deserve considerable credit for their contribution to such a compelling contest at Broadwood.
The White Feather surprised the home dressing room when he turned up clutching the match ball looking for autographs.
He will present his memento to his two children, Luca and Matta. ''It's the quickest hat trick I have scored, although I did score five for Juventus against CSKA Sofia,'' said the 34-year-old.
The game was only 30 seconds old when Dundee's Juan Sara and Nacho Novo combined in midfield to present Fabian Caballero with an opportunity to attack the Clyde goal, but the Argentine squandered the chance.
The early raid, though, inspired Clyde into action of their own and they swiftly set about serving notice that they would not be merely subservient hosts for the night.
Indeed, within a minute
they produced a move which silenced the Dundonians in the crowd.
Jack Ross provided an arcing cross on the right and Pat Keogh's looping header sailed over Julian Speroni's hands and nestled in the back of the net. What happened next will presumably have been ignored during the Bully Wee's half-time team-talk.
Alan Kernaghan, the club's player/manager was caught in possession by Caballero midway in Clyde territory, he slewed the ball into the path of Sara, whose shot was saved on the line by Mark McLaughlin and Novo nipped in with a rapid-fire equaliser. ''I shot us in the foot,'' Kernaghan admitted later.
An Irish internationalist and (pounds) 1m Manchester City signing in his prime, Kernaghan has reinvigorated the exiled Glasgow club but he appears unable to work the same miracles with his weary limbs.
He was tormented by the diminutive Spanish trickster, Novo, and while known to haul himself off at half-time, the former St Johnstone defender emerged a different man in the second half as he rejigged to an adventurous
3-4-3 formation.
Craig Burley, in veteran territory himself, made his first start for Dundee and gave intermittent reminders of his deftness of touch. Ultimately, though, he is still searching for sharpness.
Clyde were in better fettle with their new shape, however, and Stephen McConalogue's dogged style made him a dangerous proposition for Dundee.
Wilkie, though, spared the players energy-sapping extra time and the punters a nerve-shredding shootout with a thunderous shot which blurred beyond Bryn Halliwell.
Ravanelli scored his first clutch of goals for his new club, all of them from close range and in the typical striking tradition, while Mark Gilhaney collected some consolation along the way.
''It was an entertaining game and I knew it would be really hard,'' said Jim Duffy, the Dundee manager, as he prepared for today's fourth-round draw.
Clyde (4-4-2) Halliwell; Mensing, Kernaghan, Fraser, McLaughlin; Hagen, Ross (Marshall 59), Millen, Gibson (Gilhaney 48);
McConalogue (Harty 79), Keogh.
Subs: Potter, Morrison
Booked Mensing, Gilhaney
Dundee (4-3-3) Speroni; Mackay, Wilkie, Mair, McDonald; Brady, Smith, Burley (Fotheringham 76); Novo (Linn 76), Sara, Caballero (Ravanelli 70). Subs: Carranza, Langfield Booked Burley
Referee Dougie McDonald
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