Hartley's Happy
Dundee manager Paul Hartley looked ahead to Sunday's visit of champions Celtic to Dens Park
Dundee manager Paul Hartley looked ahead to Sunday's visit of champions Celtic to Dens Park after a convincing League Cup win. Greg Stewart, Paul McGinn, Peter MacDonald and Martin Boyle got the goals which gave the Premiership side a convincing 4-0 win over their Championship opponents. And Hartley had nothing but praise for his victorious side ahead of their clash against Ronny Deila's men - who bowed out of the Champions League with a defeat to Maribor at Parkhead. Hartley said: We're really pleased overall. We're six games unbeaten and that's another clean sheet.
We should have scored more goals in this one - but take nothing away from the players. We're looking forward to Sunday with the champions coming here - and hopefully we can give them a good game.'' Hartley, a former Celtic player, said:
We made a lot of changes here but we still moved the ball well. We had a fast start and a really strong finish, which we spoke about before the game.'' Meanwhile, Rovers manager Grant Murray acknowledged his team's hopes of progress were done by a poor start. He said:
We got off to a bad start. You can't afford to give quality teams like Dundee a 2-0 start as after that it was a mountain to climb. We came into things a bit in the second half but we just gave ourselves too much to do in the end.
We've got to pick ourselves up for the next game.''