Airdrie 'gifted' Dundee place in Scottish Cup quarter-finals, says Rhys McCabe
Airdrie boss Rhys McCabe reckons his Diamonds gifted Dundee their place in the Scottish Cup quarter-finals with individual errors.
The Monklands men travelled north to face a Dundee side that had suffered back-to-back 6-0 defeats in the Premiership to Hearts and Celtic in the past week, but any hopes of compounding their misery were quickly quelled by four first half goals for the hosts.
Clark Robertson's 13th minute opener was added to by a Lyall Cameron double and a strike from Oluwaseun Adewumi to kill the tie before half-time.
But the goals came at the expense of Airdrie errors and that left McCabe frustrated.
He said: "The game came away from us in the first 45 minutes. I think in the second half we put a demand on the standards we expect as a club and a group. We knew it was below par in the first half.
"It was the goals that we gifted them [that were frustrating]. If Dundee had to work extremely hard or cut us open with good individual play then there's nothing you can do about that.
"But every goal is avoidable and that is the frustration. The damage was done in the first half.
"You look at how many times Dundee got into good areas and they were clinical. When you are playing against a team from the top level, you need to make sure you are ruthless in both boxes and we weren't."
