Scottish Premiership: Dundee United 3-3 Partick Thistle

Dundee United showed the spirit they will need next season in the Championship when they ended their last home game in the top flight with two late goals to rescue a point.

Partick Thistle were two goals up at the break thanks to Freddy Frans and Kris Doolan.

United got one back through a Liam Lindsay own goal before Ryan Edwards put Thistle two goals clear again.

Eddie Ofere and Justin Johnson scored late on to rescue a point for United.

Thistle did not have to work too hard for their first-half goals.

They were ahead inside six minutes at Tannadice when a well delivered corner from 17-year-old Jags debutant James Penrice was headed in by Frans. No one in United's defensive set-up attacked the ball and the Belgian defender snapped up the chance.

Simon Murray possessed United's greatest attacking threat, just as he had done in the 3-2 win in Inverness last Friday night, and fizzed an angled shot just wide.

Ryan Edwards celebrates scoring Partick's second goal with Mathias Pogba

Billy McKay went close with a header and his 25-yard strike produced a decent save from Ryan Scully.

But United do not have the worst defensive record in the Premiership without good reason, and they gave another demonstration of their soft centre as Thistle went two goals ahead.

A long ball down the middle should not have been a big problem, but Sean Dillon left it to his goalkeeper and Eiji Kawashima lost out to Thistle striker Doolan in the race for the loose ball. The club's leading scorer rounded the keeper to nab his 13th goal of the season, netting for the fourth game on the trot.

United opened up with more purpose at the start of the second-half and Murray went close to scoring straight from the restart.

Teenager Mattie Smith also saw a shot deflected into the side-netting. The young winger delivered a promising performance.

Ofere gave United hope by bringing the score back to 3-2

An own-goal offered United the chance to salvage something from the match. Scott Fraser's corner went in off Thistle defender Lindsay.

The two-goal advantage was restored when David Amoo's cutback was stabbed high into the net by Ryan Edwards.

United number nine Ofere pulled a goal back with four minutes left, his shot flying clean through Scully.

And that was followed by a dramatic equaliser. Off the bench, 19-year-old Justin Johnson - who counts Sparta Rotterdam among his former clubs - weaved his way through to rescue a point for United right at the death.