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Scottish Premier League
Dec 9, 2012 at 12.45pm UK
 
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Peter Houston: 'Dundee penalty not controversial'

Houston: 'Penalty not controversial'
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Peter Houston says that Dundee United were correctly awarded a spot kick against Dundee and defends his team's style of football.

Dundee United manager Peter Houston has insisted that his side were correctly awarded the penalty against Dundee in their 3-0 derby win on Sunday.

Gary Irvine's challenge on Stuart Armstrong inside the Dundee area saw the referee point to the penalty spot, and John Daly successfully converted the spot kick to make it 2-0 in the 71st minute.

"I don't think it was controversial," Houston told the BBC. "Irvine wiped him out and, when you wipe people out in the penalty box, it's going to be a penalty."

Houston also defended his team's style of football and said that winning is all that counts.

"If you ask me if we played scintillating football - no we didn't - but we won the match," he said. "The most important thing for all these Arab supporters that are going home happy just now is that we won 3-0.

"I'm not really thinking about the quality side or the best passing side because we've played really well this season and lost matches.

"We've eradicated that over the last couple of weeks and we've got two clean sheets and eight goals, so hopefully that's us."

United are currently seventh in the Scottish Premier League table.

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