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A first-half Faissal El Bakhtaoui goal was enough to earn Queen of the South their first Scottish Championship win of the season to beat Morton.

El Bakhtaoui's shot low past Danny Rogers after Stephen Dobbie's shot had been blocked at the edge of the box.

Nicky Cadden, Bob McHugh and Kyle Jacobs all go close for the visitors who pushed for an equaliser.

Dobbie and Morton substitute, John Sutton, also missed chances they would normally taken.

Queens keeper Robbie McCrorie then produced a stunning save to deny Cadden again from his 25-yard free-kick which looked destined for the top corner.

The win pushes Queens further away from the bottom two of Dunfermline and Partick Thistle into seventh while Morton slip a place to sixth.

Queen of the South manager Allan Johnston: "We had to get the win to kick-off our season and hopefully we can now build on that and move up to where we want to be in the table. That was a real team performance today and we are delighted with that.

Anton McElhone Morton Assistant Manager: "We gave everything and are happy with the performance, but obviously not the result.

"It will get better, we have a young squad and they will improve and that was a fantastic save by McCrorie to stop us getting a point.

"We will continue to work and improve as the season goes on, it is a tight league, but we are still on target to get points from each quarter of the league season."