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 After playing most of the 120 minutes with ten men against their First Division opponents from Dundee, the Angus men triumphed 3-1 in a penalty shoot out with two efforts from the Dark Blues' Paton and O'Donnell easily saved by keeper Nelson and Riley firing over the crossbar. Or in Dundee parlance, "twa plein anes an a mingin ane a'na".
After a goalless first half, the game exploded into life when City's Paul McLean was shown his second yellow card for an off-the-ball altercation with Craig Forsyth in 57 minutes. Brechin, who had more than matched their counterparts thus far stunned the Dens Parkers by taking the lead within five minutes, Rory McCallister cutting in from the left to steer the ball past Rab Douglas. Unbelievably the same player added a second with a mirror image of the opener two minutes later, this time twisting and turning in the area before firing a low drive into the corner of the net.
An upset really looked on the cards at this stage, but with the away support becoming restless Dundee hit back in 71 minutes through Leigh Griffiths fine run and angled strike. Three minutes later and it was all square with the lively Griffiths again doing the damage getting on the end of a neat through ball and lifting it over the head of Nelson. It was the Dark Blues with their tails up now and it seemed only a matter of time before they secured a third with only some fine goalkeeping and frantic defending keeping the scores level.
With three minutes remaining City very nearly snatched victory when substitute Kevin Byers was sent clear, only for Douglas to save at the midfielder's feet. Two minutes later with the 90 minutes almost up Dundee were awarded a penalty after an almighty stramash in the Brechin box. It was unclear to most who was culpable but suffice to say referee Finnie had spotted an infringement of some description in the melee and pointed to the spot. Griffiths, who obviously fancied a souvenir for his evening's work was first to grab the match ball, and promptly dispatched it into the stand behind the goal from the regulation twelve yards.
Extra time came and went without further scoring but no shortage of excitement. Dundee's Craig Forsyth received a straight red card right on the full-time whistle for a crude challenge on Cook but it was the men from Angus who held their nerve to go into the hat with the big boys, who on last night's evidence might not fancy a trip up to this neck of the woods.
Final Score: Brechin City 2 Dundee 2 After Extra Time (Brechin City won 3-1 on kicks from the Penalty Mark)
Brechin City: Nelson, McLean, Cook, McLauchlan, Moyes, Molloy, McKenna, (Docherty), Smith, McAllister, Janczyk, (Booth), King, (Byers)
Subs not used: White, Scott
Dundee: Douglas, Irvine, (Riley), Lockwood, Grant, (O'Donnell), McKeown, Weston, Adams, (Paton), McMenamin, Griffiths, Harkins, Forsyth
Subs not used: Kerr, Fox
Attendance: 1,090
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