Bowie will be among the Scottish strikers hoping to make it into Steve Clarke’s World Cup squad next summer and perhaps that was on his mind when he fluffed a shot inside the six-yard box and headed over from similar range.<\/p>\n
But his sixth goal in four games against Dundee was a reminder of what he can do as he ended a nine-game drought with a classy finish.<\/p>\n
A long cross-field pass from Dan Barlaser set Nicky Cadden free on the left to provide the delivery for Bowie and those two were prominent throughout a strong first-half display from the hosts.<\/p>\n
Barlaser sets the tone from the centre of the pitch, always looking to get the ball forward, while Cadden’s crossing is up there with the best in the league.<\/p>\n
McCracken had to deal with shots from McGrath, Barlaser and Mulligan in the opening 45 minutes, while Martin Boyle hit the side-netting as the hosts cut through Dundee time and time again.<\/p>\n
The goalkeeper was later grasping at air when McGrath hit the woodwork and was left flat-footed when the Irish midfielder raked the ball inside his near post, with Bowie teeing him up.<\/p>\n
Mulligan then sent a fierce shot just wide against his former club.<\/p>\n
Dundee had a mere two touches in the opposition box before the interval, with Simon Murray’s shot blocked at a corner.<\/p>\n
Steven Pressley’s side had been completely overrun but will feel they could have snatched an unlikely draw, given the golden chances that fell to Yogane and Robertson.<\/p>\n
On both occasions, Sallinger made incredible saves to make sure Hibs held on for the three points their earlier efforts merited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bowie will be among the Scottish strikers hoping to make it into Steve Clarke’s World Cup squad next…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-302051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}