Cup joy for Jackie as Sevco lose the plot at Tannadice

Jackie McNamara enjoyed a dream start to managing Dundee United by beating Sevco to reach the last eight of the Scottish Cup.

Three days after taking over the Tannadice hotseat the former Partick Thistle boss masterminded the exit of Ally McCoist’s highly paid side to give the home fans something to cheer about.

The gulf between the two teams was evident throughout the match with the Third Division leaders unable to live with the power and pace of goalscorers Johnny Russell and Jon Daly.

After ten games without a home win United got off to the perfect start when Russell slammed the ball past Neil Alexander with just 15 seconds on the clock.

The Third Division side were chasing shadows as United dominated the game with Russell and Gary Mackay Steven causing all sorts of problems for the visitors.

Russell smashed a shot off the crossbar in the 15th minute with United opening up the visitors defence at will.

The second goal duly arrived in the 35th minute with the Sevco defence once again carved open  Jon Daly powered a header past Alexander from a Willo Flood free kick.

Before the interval the lumbering Ross Perry was replaced by Chris Perry with Ross Wallace, Kyle Hutton and Emilson Cribari earning yellow cards.

Despite having a two goal advantage United fell out the game badly in the second half but other than a 25 yard drive from Ian Black that flew past the post there was little to trouble the home side.

Eleven minutes from the final whistle the Russell and Daly partnership struck again with the Irish poking the ball through the visitors defence for Russell to poke the ball under Alexander into the net.

Sevco’s misery was completed in the last five minutes when Kal Naismith and Ian Black were sent off.

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