Andreu will not rest on his laurels

ANYONE being critical of Tony Andreu’s work for Dundee United since joining up on loan from Norwich City in August would be guilty of splitting hairs — big time.

Eleven goals in 14 games and a hand in much of what’s been good about the Tangerines’ attacking play means surely no one could be critical of the Frenchman’s work for his temporary employers.

There will, of course, always be exceptions. Moaners who are never satisfied however well a player has been doing.

The Tele has found one — the 28-year-old himself.

Like the rest of Ray McKinnon’s squad, Andreu was left frustrated when Saturday’s goalless draw at fellow-Championship challengers Morton brought to an end a seven-game winning run.

Rather than accept with a Gallic shrug that all good things must come to an end, Andreu has been keen to analyse the reasons why one point wasn’t three.

And, if his name crops up as one of them, he won’t hide from that.

“It should have been a victory and I should have scored,” he states bluntly.

“I had chances and I didn’t take them. There were two clear chances for me and I didn’t do well enough.”

Given the quality of his work so far, it’s safe to say United fans will be more than willing to forgive those lapses. Andreu is not.

“I have scored other goals and that is good but, on each day when the chances come, you want to score and I know I should have done better with the ones at Morton.

“It was a difficult game. I thought they closed the game very well, they are a good team. They had counter attacks that were dangerous, so we had to defend properly and we did.

“For our part, though, I thought it was kind of ‘who is going to score?’ We didn’t, so we are disappointed.

“And in my opinion I should have scored at least two goals. I didn’t, so it was a bit frustrating.

“We wanted to keep the winning