Alex Rae will bid to bring in emergency loan players after his Dundee side had two men sent off in their Scottish Cup win at Motherwell.Paul McHale and Scott Robertson shot the First Division side into a two-goal lead just after the interval before Motherwell substitute Darren Smith pulled a goal back just after the hour.

Midfielder Kevin McDonald and defender Gary McKenzie were then sent off for two yellow cards apiece and had to survive five tense minutes of added time.

The Taysiders face fellow First Division side Queen of the South at Palmerston in the quarter-finals but will have to travel to Dumfries without McDonald and McKenzie, a situation that will have Rae on the phone to the SFA.

The Dens Park boss said: "We were awesome. It was backs to the wall in injury time although I don't know where the five minutes came from, I can only remember one injury in the second half.

"I will go and see the referee about McDonald's first booking, I couldn't see how he could give a yellow card for it. It was a very strange decision.

"I was a long way away and maybe he will tell me something I didn't see like a pull on a jersey.

"I had no complaints about the other sending-off, it was two booking for Gary.

"Overall we are delighted to be in the next round but we will have a few bodies missing for the game against Queen of the South.

"I will have to see about an emergency loan, players who are not cup-tied obviously, because we don't have the bodies.

"Queen of the South turned us over on our own patch a couple of weeks ago so we know it's not going to be easy down there.

"But if we apply ourselves the way we did against Motherwell then hopefully we will progress."

Motherwell manager Mark McGhee was honest in his assessment of his team's performance and admitted that the better side won on the night.

He said: "It was hugely disappointing because we harboured ambitions of getting to the semi-final.

"But it was easily our poorest performance of the season.

"We weren't at the races, we didn't compete, we didn't cope with the physical challenges and all quality deserted us.

"It was a collective thing, nobody was innocent. I maybe should have asked the players to play in a different way.

"At half-time I was thinking about a replay and I would have settled for that at 2-0 down.

"At 2-1 down there was still about 20 minutes to go but we didn't look like getting another. But well done Dundee."

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