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The controversial punishment for stopping Ronan Hale has held hopes in Ross County to avoid the playoffs as they drew 1-1 with colleagues Strugler Dundee.
Dark Blues took the lead in the second half via Scott Tifoney and seemed on his way to securing his William Hill Premiership Status.
But deep in additional time, Hale saved the point for the stage after Ryan Astley directed the ball toward the hand of Antonio Portales.
With only two points that separate the sides, this Sunday will go to the wire to determine who will be in the play-off play.
The hosts made two changes in the team that lost to Kilmarnock over the weekend, and Oluwaseun Adewumi entered Scott Tifoney, while Clark Robertson replaced Aaron Donnelly in defense.
Visitors made three changes from the side that beat St Johnstone on Saturday, and Eli Campbell, Michee Epmete and Noah Kenneth were drawn by Kieran Philips, George Harmon and Zac Ashworth, who were suspended after a red card in the Saints game.
Dundee had a great chance in the 22nd minute when Simon Murray made a slight back of Akil Wright and tried a treacherous shot from a tight corner that Kacper Lopat wiped off his line.
The staggies created the current answer and approached the lead when the halls set out to take a great ride before hitting the shot from the edge of the Dundea box, which was rejected on the crossbar and more.
The Highland tails were worse and they had two more chances for fast fires, and Wright sent a free header before the low goal of Alex Samuel easily gathered goalkeeper Trevor Carson.
Adewumi then found Seb Palmer-Houlden with a top crossfield passage, and the striker hit a 22-meter shot by Jordan Assahsh Acrobatically at the corner.
The tension continued to increase at the beginning of the second half, but the downtime was finally broken in the 55th minute. Cameron played a top -notch passage in Tifoney’s legs on the left and broke into the county box and maintained cold to shoot peacefully next to Assissah.
The guard was then to the aid of his part, making two amazing stops in fast inheritance from Palmer-Houlden and Joe Shaughnessy’s heads.
They stood then expelled a huge chance to equalize when Samuel raised Hale, but with the aim of his grace, he ran well.
However, the attacker changed in the sixth minute of the stop time.
Judge Nick Walsh controversially awarded the County to the County when Astley headed for Portales’s hand, with a decision that the tire was marked by Var.
Hale stepped in to take the video and did not make a mistake, sent Carson the wrong way to end any fear of automatic outburst and increased her hopes of his part to avoid play-off.