{"id":180464,"date":"2023-08-13T14:55:43","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T13:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/2023\/08\/13\/st-mirren-2-1-dundee-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T22:47:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T22:47:03","slug":"st-mirren-2-1-dundee-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/2023\/08\/13\/st-mirren-2-1-dundee-2\/","title":{"rendered":"St Mirren 2 &#8211; 1 Dundee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having won their opening game of the season against Hibernian last week it was St Mirren&#8217;s first home game of the new season and St Mirren knew that a win\u00a0would see them go top of the league.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Saints started the game at a fast pace and it was no surprise that they went in front, courtesy of an own goal from ex Saint Joe Shaughnessy in the 7th minute.<\/p>\n<p>They then went on to hit the crossbar before conceding a penalty which Saints new keeper Hemming saved. Then in the 49th minute Mikael Mandron headed home Saints second goal to put them 2 &#8211; 0 in front at half time.<\/p>\n<p>The second half saw an improved Dundee team put Saints under pressure and in the 63rd minute Mulligan got a goal back for Dundee and take the score to 2 -1, Dundee were the dominant\u00a0 team but couldn&#8217;t score that second goal, while Saints continued to look dangerous on the break.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Photographs by Hugh McMillan<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_97066\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97066\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97066\" src=\"https:\/\/www.renfrewshire24.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/St-Mirren-v-Dundee-12-08-23-709A8337-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-97066\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saints Hemming celebrates the save with team mates<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_97065\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97065\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97065\" src=\"https:\/\/www.renfrewshire24.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/St-Mirren-v-Dundee-12-08-23-709A8335-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-97065\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saints Hemming saves Dundee&#8217;s penalty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_97064\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97064\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97064\" src=\"https:\/\/www.renfrewshire24.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/St-Mirren-v-Dundee-12-08-23-709A8333-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-97064\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saints Boyd-Munce and Dundee&#8217;s Mulligan in a tackle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_97063\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97063\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97063\" src=\"https:\/\/www.renfrewshire24.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/St-Mirren-v-Dundee-12-08-23-8R7A8636-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-97063\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saints Kiltie and Baccus start another attack<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_97062\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97062\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97062\" src=\"https:\/\/www.renfrewshire24.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/St-Mirren-v-Dundee-12-08-23-8R7A8568-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-97062\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saints Mandron has a celebratory dance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_97061\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97061\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97061\" src=\"https:\/\/www.renfrewshire24.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/St-Mirren-v-Dundee-12-08-23-8R7A8560-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-97061\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saints Mandron watches his header hit the net. 1 &#8211; 0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_97060\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97060\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97060\" src=\"https:\/\/www.renfrewshire24.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/St-Mirren-v-Dundee-12-08-23-8R7A8484-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-97060\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saints Greg Kiltie has a shot at goal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_97059\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97059\" style=\"width: 2513px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97059\" src=\"https:\/\/www.renfrewshire24.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/St-Mirren-v-Dundee-12-08-23-8R7A8466.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2513\" height=\"2516\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-97059\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saints players celebrate going 1 &#8211; 0 in front<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having won their opening game of the season against Hibernian last week it was St Mirren&#8217;s first home game of the new season and St Mirren knew that a win\u00a0would see them go top of the league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","joomsport-thmb-medium":"","rn-home-thumb":"","rn-home-rect":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Ricky Kelly","author_link":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/author\/mudricky\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/category\/football\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Football<\/a>","tag_info":"Football","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180611,"href":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180464\/revisions\/180611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}