Dundee United and Hibernian kick started their European campaigns as United defeated Una Strassen 1-0 in their Europa Conference second qualifier and the Hibees got an important 1-1 draw away from home against FC Midtylland in their Europa League second qualifier.

FC Midtylland 1-1 Hibernian 

David Gray’s men had a dream start in Denmark all thanks Jamie McGrath opening the scoring as his free-kick found it’s way into the net from the wide left of the pitch.

The Danish side struggled to get to grips at the start, but grew into the game and pulled back an equaliser at the 72nd minute as Aral Simsir slotted away a lovely free-kick.

Gray spoke after the game about how proud he was of his side’s performance:

“We spoke about deserving the opportunity for how well we played last season and what we achieved last season.

“But you need to come to these places and believe you can get a result and I think the way we started the game, every player definitely did that.

“We were on the front foot straight away. The first 20 minutes I thought we were excellent.

“We had to defend, I thought that was excellent. So really proud of the effort from every single player.

“But I’ve just been very quick to remind everyone that it’s only part one, that’s half time in the tie.”

Dundee United 1-0 Una Strassen 

Jim Goodwin’s men played in front of 11,000 people at Tannadice as seven of the nine signings made by the Terrors started the game.

New summer signing Zac Sapsford got his United career off to a flying start as his strike went into the bottom left hand corner at the 47th minute.

Goodwin’s team were fairly in control and he believes that his side should be in a more comfortable position going into the second leg. He said after the game:

“We’re pleased with the clean sheet and we scored a really good goal with a bit of quality and it was a wonderful strike.

“I think there are certain elements we need to do better in. We turned over possession far too cheaply which led to counters but defensively we were very good.

“There were certainly moments in the game where we need to improve. I thought when we did move the ball quickly and found pockets, we looked a threat but we’ve left at least a couple of goals out there.

“Vicko Sevelj had a great chance but credit to the keeper who made a good save.

“The disappointment is more the fact we didn’t do ourselves justice in the second half. Our possession on the ball, we didn’t move it quickly enough.“

We were too sloppy and we’ll try to improve those things. It’s still very early days for this group of players but there’s a lot to work on going into next week.

“I don’t mean to sound doom and gloom, I’m just disappointed we didn’t make it more comfortable.”