McCowan scored the only goal of the game to hand the dark blues a first Premiership win following pre-match mix up.
Tony Docherty has admitted goal hero Luke McCowan only started after he was wrongly included on the Dundee team lines.
Hearts technical director Stevie Naismith insisted it was the officials and not Hearts who had stopped Dundee making the pre-match change. Naismith said: "Twenty minutes after the team sheets went in, someone said they wanted to change their team sheet.It was a big three points for Dundee and Docherty praised McCowan. He also knew he was capable of doing it, having scored from even further out in pre-season against Fleetwood Town.
Docherty reckons the win will be big for his side. He insisted: “I see the development and the improvement in the squad in every training session and I’m glad they’ve been rewarded for that on the pitch.
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