Oth delighted to get another crack at their city rivals

rday’s Tayside derby in the Betfred Cup at Dens Park. football,” he added. Mccann had no regrets about demanding that Dundee adopt a swagger going into yesterday’s game as the team from the higher division.

It was the first time since 1956 that Dundee had contested a derby fixture while operating in a league above their neighbours.

“I don’t mind,” he said. “Headlines can be sensationalised. But I don’t mind saying that – I did say swagger.

“I am not being arrogant or disrespectful. They [his players] should feel good about themselves. They retained their Premiership status when it looked like we were on the way down after seven defeats.”

Both Dundee and Dundee United have already agreed to schedule the re-match at Dens for Wednesday 9 August, with a 7.45pm kick off.

The same ticket prices will apply. BT Sport, who covered yesterday’s derby in front of 10,460 fans, will decide today whether to televise this game again or another last-16 clash.

“It was exciting football for the fans and we get to do it all again now,” said a satisfied United manager Ray Mckinnon.

“I’d rather it was at Tannadice, but there’s nothing to fear coming here. Dundee are a good side but we’ve shown we can go out and play.

“We were missing James Keatings, Scotty [Mcdonald] will have another two weeks of training under him. Willo Flood has only played 60 minutes with the kids. We’ll get these players back fit and we’ll be a stronger squad coming into it hopefully.”

Mckinnon added that his understrength side had not practised penalties going into yesterday’s match.

“I just told them to go and do it on the day,” he said. “They can all take a penalty. I just wanted them to concentrate on winning the game on the day.”

0 Neil Mccann: No regrets Scotland’s future stars completed a perfect week when they defeated Uruguay 2-0 at Oriam on Saturday to win the Under-16 International Tournament.

Coach Brian Mclaughlin’s youngsters had been impressive throughout, taking nine points from their three matches, scoring 11 goals and conceding none in the process.

They had begun the competition by thrashing Qatar 7-0 last Tuesday, then defeated England 2-0 at the Forthbank Stadium in Stirling two days later.

Saturday’s victory over Uruguay was achieved at the end of a hard-fought encounter, when the Scots’ defence were requiredtoberesoluteagainst opponents who always threatened, but Mclaughlin’s players proved to be more clinical than the Uruguayans.