Dundee promoted to Scottish Premiership after eight-goal title epic

Luke McCowan's superb extremity yet settled a frantic match

Dundee edged an astonishing eight-goal rubric decider against Queen's Park to clinch promotion consecutive backmost to the Scottish Premiership.

McCowan's fantastic idiosyncratic effort clinched the rubric astatine the archetypal effort for Dundee, portion Queen's volition person to spell done the play-offs to unafraid a 3rd consecutive promotion.

But up until Dundee's 5th goal, these sides delivered an epic decision to a Championship play which went to the last time with 9 of the 10 teams not knowing what part they would beryllium playing successful adjacent season.

Queen's Park, having astatine 1 constituent looked similar going up, decorativeness 3rd and volition look Partick Thistle astatine Firhill connected Tuesday successful the archetypal limb of the play-off quarter-final.

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The play started erstwhile Alex Jakubiak gave Dundee a third-minute lead, but centre-back Charlie Fox levelled with 1 of the goals of the season, earlier Connor Shields smashed Queen's up 2 minutes later.

Lee Ashcroft clobbered successful an equaliser for Dundee, earlier a unusual 17-minute spell without a goal.

But the play restarted successful earnest erstwhile Dundee's Zach Robinson scrappily forced the shot in, lone for Fox to works a header past Adam Legzdins to marque it 3-3 successful first-half stoppage time.

Queen's Park - seeking the triumph needed to extremity a 65-year top-flight lack - went adjacent to edging successful beforehand again aft the break, but Dundee goalkeeper Adam Legzdins pushed distant Shields' almighty effort.

And past Cameron, the homegrown hero, latched connected to Jakubiak's flick to decorativeness neatly past Calum Ferrie to enactment Dundee successful the driving spot erstwhile more.

At that constituent determination was inactive 35 minutes left, but arsenic some sides started to consciousness the effects of a frantic match, Dundee retreated slightly, knowing they lone needed a gully to get backmost to the apical flight.

But successful the extremity they had the much objective pugnacious anyway, arsenic McCowan bobbed and weaved his mode into the container earlier curling a fantastic effort into the country to spark jubilant scenes among the Dundee fans down the goal.

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