Aberdeen finished third in this year’s Denis Law Soccer Tournament after requiring extra time to end the challenge of Dundee. After 80 minutes, it was 1-1 with Laurie Cunningham’s counter for the Dons cancelled out by the Dens Park side’s Scott Milne. In the additional time, Connor McLennan and Bruce Anderson both found the net to give the Dons victory.

The tournament winners were Celtic who retained the trophy after being given a real scare by Sheffield United, who led twice and played for more than half of the match a man short.

The Blades took an early lead in 3 minutes when a long, hopeful ball took a deflection and looped over keeper Ross Doohan to allow Tyler Smith to sweep it into the empty net.

Five minutes later it was all square when skipper Regan Hendry played in Anthony Ralston whose excellent cross was turned in by Ciaran McKenna.

On the quarter of an hour mark, The Glasgow side went ahead when Innes Murray’s deflected cross from the left was fired home by Hendry.

The goals were coming thick and fast and after 21 minutes it was level again when Frank Koroma beat a couple of defenders on the left and played in Jordan Hallam who made no mistake from six yards.

Four minutes later United were reduced to ten men when Koroma exacted revenge on Ralston, who had fouled him moments earlier, with a headbutt that was missed by referee Liam Duncan, but not by his assistant David McLellan, whose intervention brought about a straight red.

Amazingly, within sixty seconds the Blades were in front once again when Harvey Gilmore’s free kick fooled everyone, including Doohan, and ended up in the net.

Celtic came out for the second period with all guns blazing, scoring no fewer than four times in the opening ten minutes.

Two minutes after the restart, a powerful Theo Archibald shot brought the holders level before Mark HILL, from fully thirty yards out, hit an unstoppable shot past the impressive Dylan Parkin.

HENDRY made it 5-3 from a suspiciously offside position before Archibald completed the scoring, turning in a cross at the far post.