Coulibaly pays tribute to Boyd’s brother
Dundee Kilmarnock
SOULEYMANE Coulibaly dedicated his first-half goal to the brother of Kilmarnock team-mate Kris Boyd, who was found dead on Wednesday after taking his own life.
The Ivorian levelled with an overhead kick just after the halfhour, after Faissal El Bakhtaoui had given Dundee an early lead at Dens Park.
Boyd decided to play despite the death of his younger sibling Scott, 27, and Coulibaly said: “I dedicate to my goal to Kris’ brother. It’s been a difficult week for Kris, but like a man, he turned up today and played for us.” win in the Ladbrokes Premierbox after four minutes but Boyd’s ship as they were held to a third header was gathered by home consecutive draw. goalkeeper Scott Bain.
They had to play the last However, three minutes later 10 minutes with 10 men after Dundee took the lead in simple French defender Kevin Gomis fashion. was shown a straight red card Hateley took advantage of a Kilmarnock manager Clark for a rash tackle on Kilmarnock dead-ball situation and his low heaped praise on Coulibaly, substitute Charlee Adams. free-kick eluded the entire Killie saying: “The technique was just Seeking to freshen things up, defence to allow El Bakhtaoui to out of this world. He does that sort manager Paul Hartley made two make it 1-0 with a neat finish from of thing in training. changes from the side which had inside the six-yard box.
“There’s a few lads who’ve got drawn away to Motherwell a It was the Frenchman’s first cuts and bruises from him kicking fortnight before. goal since signing in the summer their heads. On-loan Celtic attacker Michael and gave the hosts a welcome “My lads are lift.duckingandDuffyandDannyWilliams diving when those crosses are dropped out, and in came Craig However, Kilmarnock equalised coming in during training. He’s Wighton and new signing Tom in some style after 31 minutes. such a great kid – he’s so positive Hateley. Adam Frizzell’s deep cross from and the lads have taken to him But it was the visitors who the right picked out Coulibaly so much.” began brightly. Captain Steven and he spectacularly sent an
Dundee remain without a home Smith flighted a free-kick into the overhead kick back across
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Bain and into the back of the net from 12 yards.
Soon after the restart, Wighton was put clean through on goal by Paul McGowan only to see his shot saved by Jamie MacDonald, and the Kilmarnock goalkeeper also thwarted him from the rebound.
After 80 minutes, Dundee centre-back Gomis was shown a straight red card for a reckless challenge on Adams, who was stretchered off.
Despite their best efforts to force a winner late on, Dundee had to settle for another draw.
“We started brightly and, to be fair, the goal Kilmarnock scored was a fantastic strike,” manager Hartley said. “We just lacked that little bit of clinical finishing.”