Drawing Rangers in the quarter-final of the League Cup has never been a successful route for Dundee.
That’s now six times they have met the Gers in the final eight of the competition and six times they’ve been knocked out.This time around the writing was on the wall early on as the Glasgow side started fast, netting after 18 minutes through Cyriel Dessers.
Dundee, though, appeared to weather the storm as the half wore on only to see the game get away from them shortly after the break with a James Tavernier penalty.
Dessers would add his second with 24 minutes to go and the game was done.
What can we take from the contest from a Dundee point of view?
Courier Sport was there to analyse all the action.Two defeats on the bounce, two weeks running where penalties have been conceded around half-time. A really damaging time to do so.
Both given away by challenges that were needless as well.
This time it was Mo Sylla blotting his usually blank copybook by hauling down Gers striker Dessers from a corner kick.
Sylla won the ball but hands all over Dessers was asking for trouble.
With Tavernier’s finish the cup-tie was all but over just moments into the second half.
