SPFL Week 2

So the second week of the season and its carnage, Edinburgh City are the best team in the capital, Morelos still hasn’t been sent off, Falkirk and Raith are cruising it and it really was a game of 2 halves at The Reigart Stadium

The premiership was all action with 21 goals flying in across the 6 games. Both Celtic and Rangers games had 7 goals in them. Celtic beat Motherwell 5-2 with a good competitive match, the greatest battle on the park was Scott Sinclair against the Motherwell groundsman as the 2 of them squared up they had to be pulled apart by a well-dressed man in a suit, presumably to save the act for next years “Celt Fest”. Rangers hammered Hibs 6-1 which is the Leith sides worst result since the new regime took over and gloriously means that one more result like that and I can trot out Paul Feckingbottom, let’s hope for a poor result against St Johnstone.

Hamilton pilled the misery on Killie as they ran out 2 nil winners against the Ayrshire side. Brian Eason clearly taking pity by getting sent off almost straight after the restart sadly didn’t help Killie any as the team fail to live up to their last season promise. St Mirren incredibly held on to their 13 minute opener to see out a win against Aberdeen the Dons look desperately short of a striker.

St Johnstone got an unlikely point on the board after coming from 2 goals down to draw with Livi, Livingston could have stolen all 3 points at the death but took a free kick directly at Clark in goals. With the new penalty rules it is an absolute minter now to miss a penalty and even worse to have it saved. Hearts resurrected 90’s style football by playing on a ash pitch after a classical concert ruined their brand new pitch, Ann Budge there trying to outdo Partick Thistles vegan pies in terms of hipster top trumps. The game was generally awful with Ross County posing the biggest threat throwing it away by also missing a penalty at the end of the game.

The Championship kicked off with Partick Thistle and Dundee United taking turns at looking very poor on TV, with Dundee United doing the bare minimum to secure all 3 points it does however look as if the hugely expensive team may not canter the league as expected. We can also look forward to Nicky Clark blowing his fuse as Robbie Neilson continues to play him on the wing, whilst at Bury he was played on the wing twice before forcing a move away from the club. Dunfermline blew their lead for the second week in a row drawing with a Dobbie-less Queens side.

Morton continued their good form putting 4 past Alloa Andy Graham celebrating his team going 3-1 down by being shown a straight Red after Morton scored he continued his protest for so long he was booked after he was sent off the delaying the restart, which is exactly the kind of thing we like to see. Dundee and Inverness both left it late to beat Ayr and Arbroath respectively and will be looking to improve once the league returns after a week off.

In league one Forfar and Raith Rovers continue their flawless start to the league campaign winning 1-0 and 5-2 respectively. Raith will be glad to add goals to their game after ditching their start French defender how turned out to be hopeless. Airdrie got their first win of the season against Montrose and will be looking to build some momentum as the look the challenge at the top of the table. East Fife and Peterhead shared the points in an fairly uneventful 1-1 draw.

Falkirk slaughtered their first diddies of the season beating Dumbarton 6-0, Falkirk will be expected to replicate this result 32 more times as the follow in the path of Dunfermline, Rangers* and Morton who destroyed every team in the league before wrapping things up in mid-march, anything other than Falkirk doing this will be a failure by Ray.

Albion Rovers and Cove played out an incredible draw with Cover winning the first half 3-1 before Albion came back and won the second half 3-1 final score was 4-4 and is the highest scoring draw of the SPFL season so far. Annan and Elgin, and, Queen’s Park and Stenny, played out a far less memorable 1-1 draws. Edinburgh City came back from last week’s humiliation beating Brechin 2-1 and Cowdenbeath saw off Stirling Albion 1-0.

So there we have it SPFL Week 2.

Only League 1 and 2 in action next week as the Betfred cup gets into the knockout stages.