DUNDEE GET FULL NELSON
ANDREW NELSON insists he has already fallen back in love with the game as he strives to help Dundee win their fight for survival.
The 21-year-old striker hit a first-half double in Wednesday’s 2-2 draw with Kilmarnock that saw Jim McIntyre’s Premiership basement battlers move three points ahead of bottom club St Mirren.
Nelson, who joined the Dark Blues from Sunderland in the transfer window, has now hit three goals since arriving on Tayside to put the spring firmly back in his step.
And the English ace admits there’s no better feeling than being back among the goals as he targets many more to keep new-look Dundee in the top flight next season.
Nelson said: “As long as I am scoring I am going to be happy.
“I have had a bit of a struggle this season with injury so to have that scoring feeling again is great.
“As long as I am doing that I am going to be thoroughly happy.
“If I am here I want to be on the teamsheet, playing week in week out.
“That’s why I play football, I want to be playing games doing what I love.”
Dundee are looking like a different beast under McIntyre who replaced Neil McCann at the helm back in October.
Nelson and his Dens Park team-mates were gutted not to take all three points against fourth-top Killie especially after Kenny Miller missed an injury-time penalty.
But the forward believes they’re no longer the soft touch they were.
Nelson said: “The gaffer was saying to us at the end we now look like a different team compared to what it was before.
“That can only bode well for us that teams will start to think now that Dundee are not going to be a pushover. They are going to be fighting, making sure they try to get that result.”