Dundee United clinched a European place after leapfrogging Aberdeen into fourth place within the Scottish Premiership with a shocking 2-1 comeback win.
Danish attacker Jeppe Okkels scored his first objective for the Dons since signing on mortgage from Preston in January after quarter-hour with the guests controlling the sport.
United progressively got here again into it and within the 56th minute defender Declan Gallagher levelled with a header from a Glenn Middleton nook.
Striker Sam Dalby put United forward with a penalty within the 62nd minute and when the mud settled on the ultimate day of top-six fixtures – and there was an unseemly pitch invasion by dwelling followers on the closing whistle – Jim Goodwin’s males, again within the high flight this season, completed fourth which brings a possible Europe League qualifying place.
Aberdeen are in a position to swipe it again in the event that they win the Scottish Cup towards Celtic subsequent week, albeit the champions failing on the final hurdle of one other home treble is a long-odds prospect.
St Mirren fought out a commendable 1-1 draw with Celtic at Parkhead however that was not sufficient to forestall them ending sixth.
Either side went into the sport struggling for type.
The Taysiders had suffered 4 successive post-split defeats whereas Aberdeen had misplaced their final three video games, together with a 5-1 thrashing at Celtic.
Jimmy Thelin’s facet, although, had secured European soccer earlier than the sport and so they had the primary actual effort on objective within the seventh minute with United keeper Dave Richards turning a 20-yard drive from Pape Gueye previous the submit.
Jeppe Okkels celebrates after giving Aberdeen the lead at Dundee United
Because the Dons saved the house facet penned contained in the field from the nook, midfielder Jamie McGrath smacked the bar with a shot however United survived the following scramble.
However Aberdeen quickly went forward when midfielder Leighton Clarkson despatched captain Graeme Shinnie racing down the left along with his cross initially defended by Richards and Gallagher near the goalline.
Alexander Jensen picked up the unfastened ball, nonetheless, and reduce it again for Okkels to raise the ball excessive into the online from 10 yards.
The lacklustre guests progressively labored their means again and within the thirty ninth minute Aberdeen keeper Dimitar Mitov made a good save from Sam Cleall-Harding’s drive from distance, earlier than Vicko Sevelj’s cross was headed simply previous the submit by Dalby.
Inside minutes of the restart United’s Kristijan Trapanovski headed a cross from Will Ferry into the bottom and over the bar from six yards.
On the different finish, Scotland striker Kevin Nisbet took an incisive cross from Clarkson and with time and house curled a shot over the bar when he should have at the least hit the goal.
The house facet stepped it up and compelled a sequence of corners and ultimately Gallagher leapt inside a packed six-yard field to go in.
Then referee John Beaton pointed to the spot when Ryan Pressure was fouled within the field by Okkels amid heavy Terrors’ strain and Dalby despatched Mitov the mistaken means along with his spot-kick.
The momentum of the sport had swung fully and Mitov, after a poor kick to Dalby, needed to block an effort from substitute Louis Moult.
