Evening Telegraph (First Edition)
Siegrist closing on clean-sheet record at United
DUNDEE United are on a brilliant run of form with five league wins on the bounce seeing them stretch their lead at the top of the Championship to nine points.
The Tangerines have recorded wins against Dunfermline (2-0), Partick (1-0), Inverness Caley Thistle (0-3), Dundee (0-2) and QOS (3-0)
Lawrence Shankland has earned most of the plaudits during that period, scoring in the first four matches before missing the Queens win due to international duty.
However, equally important has been the form of a man at the other end of the pitch, Benjamin Siegrist.
The big Swiss goalie has been in outstanding form since the start of the campaign and will be confident he can make it clean sheet No 6 when hostilities resume tomorrow week at Cappielow against Morton.
If he achieves that aim, Siegrist will surpass a feat last recorded three years ago when Cammy Bell had five shut-outs on the bounce for the Tangerines.
Indeed, that run, given the games which came before and after, saw Bell go 477 minutes without losing a goal – falling short of Hamish McAlpine’s all-time record of 615 minutes from 1977.
It’s also worth noting that during Bell’s run, the Terrors also recorded another clean sheet in a 1-0 win over Dunfermline, although Luis Zwick was the keeper that evening and the game was a Challenge Cup tie.
Tonight Tele Sport looks at how Bell’s league run was accumulated:
November 8, 2016 Dundee United 1 Dunfermline 0
Simon Murray’s second-half goal gave United the points.
November 19, 2016 Morton 0 Dundee United 0
Home keeper Derek Gaston turned in a Man-of-the-Match display to keep United out
December 2, 2016 Dundee United 1 Hibs 0
Cammy Bell saved a Martin Boyle penalty before Tony Andreu showed Hibs how it should be done by grabbing the winner from the spot in front of 10,925 fans at Tannadice.