Arbroath 2 – 2 St Johnstone (St Johnstone win 3-2 on penalties)
Premier Sports Cup – 2nd Round – Season 2021/22
Sunday 15th August 2021, Gayfield Park, Arbroath, 14:00pm kick off
Arbroath lost out in the lottery of penalties this afternoon after twice taking the lead against Premiership and League Cup Holders St Johnstone.
Joel Nouble fired in from a Nicky Low corner kick in the 31st minute. Arbroath defended well and started to really press the visitors in the second half but St Johnstone were given a life line when Derek Gaston was adjudged to have fouled Reece Devine in the 58th minute.
However Derek Gaston brilliantly saved Jason Kerr’s shot but Glenn Middleton just snuck in the rebound inside the post.
The match then went to Extra Time and Thomas O’Brien smashed home a stunning volley just 3 minutes into the first period of extra time.
Arbroath were furious when referee Colin Steven awarded a corner kick after it looked like Chris Hamilton took an elbow to his throat.
As fate would have it Jamie McCart nodded in as he rose unchallenged at the back post from the resulting disputed corner kick.
With no other goals it was down to penalties.
Ricky Little hit the crossbar 0 – 0
Liam Craig hit the bottom left corner 0 – 1
Liam Henderson curled in a beauty to the top left corner 1 – 1
Callum Hendry made it 1-2 into the bottom right
Dale Hilson hit his shot over 1-2
Derek Gaston saved from Callum Booth 1 – 2
Nicky Low equalised 2 – 2
Bobby Linn hit the post 2 – 2
Ali McCann netted to make it 3-2
A tough way to bow out, but another terrific team performance which the lads can be proud of.
Arbroath
1 – Derek Gaston
18 – Chris Hamilton
3 – Colin Hamilton
4 – Ricky Little
5 – Thomas O’Brien (c)
6 – Nicky Low
8 – Michael McKenna (Hilson 86)
28 – James Craigen (Paterson 72)
16 – Harrison Clark (Gold 45)
17 – Joel Nouble (Donnelly 86)
12 – Scott Stewart (Linn 72)
Substitutes
2 – Jason Thomson
7 – David Gold – 16; 45th (Henderson 99)
9 – Dale Hilson – 8; 86th
10 – Gavin Swankie
11 – Bobby Linn – 12; 72nd
14 – Dylan Paterson – 28; 72nd
15 – Luke Donnelly – 17; 86th
22 – Liam Henderson – 7; 99th
21 – Calum Antell (GK)
Goals – Nouble 31, O’Brien 93
Yellow Cards – Chris Hamilton 34, Craigen 44, Low 105+2, Henderson 113, Colin Hamilton 115
St Johnstone
12 – Elliot Parish (Clark 120)
19 – Shaun Rooney
5 – Jason Kerr (c)
4 – Jamie McCart
3 – Reece Devine (Booth 79)
26 – Liam Craig
7 – Stevie May (Ballantyne 71)
22 – Callum Hendry
14 – Glenn Middleton (O’Halloran 84)
2 – James Brown (Davidson 105)
18 – Alistair McCann
Substitutes
6 – Liam Gordon
24 – Callum Booth – 3; 79th
16 – Hayden Muller
8 – Murray Davidson – 2; 105th
15 – Charlie Gilmour
25 – Jordan Northcott
11 – Michael O’Halloran – 14; 84th
23 – Cameron Ballantyne – 7; 71st
1 – Alexander Clark (GK) – 12; 120th
Goals – Middleton 59, McCart 105
Yellow Cards – Middleton 30, Kerr 45, Craig 95
Attendance – 1842
Officials:
Referee – Colin Steven
Assistant Referee 1 – Ralph Gordon
Assistant Referee 2 – Gary Hilland
Fourth Official – Chris Fordyce
