Captain Kevin Nisbet and debutant Mitchy Ntelo booked Aberdeen’s place in the League Cup quarter-finals and exacted revenge on top-flight rivals Dundee for league defeat last weekend.<\/p>\n
Nisbet’s close-range finish, after efforts by Chris Cadden and Toyosi Olusanya had been repelled, and Ntelo’s superb shot on the turn put the hosts in control early in the second half.<\/p>\n
And Nisbet struck again after Ntelo dummied Tony Yogane’s low cross as the Dons followed a listless 2-0 away Scottish Premiership loss to the same opponents with an emphatic cup victory.<\/p>\n
Dundee’s disappointment was compounded by a serious-looking injury to captain Simon Murray in the first half. The forward, 34, left the field on a stretcher after landing awkwardly and clutching his left knee.<\/p>\n
Afeez Aremu, twice, and Olusanya tested Dundee goalkeeper Owen Goodman, with Olusanya also denied by the goalkeeper after going clean through in the first half.<\/p>\n
At the other end, Murray found himself in a similar position but could not get the ball under control as Marius Muller collected, with the keeper later blocking a Joe Bevan effort.<\/p>\n
Aberdeen started the second half brightly and never looked back, with substitute Stuart Armstrong striking against the post late on. They will discover their last-eight opponents when the draw is made on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Ryan Finnigan tested Muller and Ethan Hamilton lifted a shot over as the Dark Blues sought consolation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Captain Kevin Nisbet and debutant Mitchy Ntelo booked Aberdeen’s place in the League Cup quarter-finals and exacted revenge…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-594679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}