Go all out to — Murdoch

themselves three goals to the good within the opening five minutes of the clash, and were left ruing missed chances when Dumbarton edged back into the game.

“I think we’ve done that a lot this season, we’ve had periods where we’ve really put pressure on teams and we just haven’t taken the chances,” Murdoch said.

“It’s just frustrating, again, to only be one up and for them to equalise and the game ends in disappointment.”

And Murdoch knows they could have made life a lot easier for themselves given the circumstances.

“The Falkirk game was obviously in the back of our minds — you hear the results come in and with the 5.15 kick-off you know the opportunity is there,” he added.

“Before the game it was a great opportunity to put the ball back in our court. We really need to do what we can do best and that is to play the way we know we can but add the goals at the end of it.”

It was an honest assessment of the game from a midfielder who has coped well in his new right-back role, and the 26-year-old knows they have to get it right at both ends of the park to be successful.

With reference to the team’s balance, he said: “I think it’s a bit of both — we’ve obviously got to defend the set-plays a bit better than we did but to be a winning side you’ve got to do it at both ends.

“We could have been out of sight but at 1-0 we need to try to keep it like that until the break and then we can build.”

knows United need to take their chances and keep things tight against Morton on Saturday.