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Winger feels best is yet to come from the Tangerines

game. We need to be 100% focused and at our best to get the three points.”

As encouraging as the start to league business has been, particularly as every other team has dropped at least a couple of points in the first two rounds of fixtures, the former Hearts man believes there is more to come from what remains fundamentally a new team.

“We have gelled well so far but, while I think we’ve done reasonably well in the games in terms of our performances, we are still not at 100% yet.

“Knowing where players move and like to make runs, we’re not quite together yet.

“That will come and it’s going to click soon. When it does, we’ll be even better than we are now.

“It’s coming on quickly and there is a good blend of youth and experience here and it is a strong squad.

“We saw the other night how strong the squad is and it is only healthy to have that kind of strong competition for places.

“If players are waiting in the wings for my position and are doing well, it forces me to do well, too, and that can only be good for me and the team.”

And even if United are still sitting pretty at the top of the table come tomorrow evening, King knows there’s a l ong way to go before anything in the second tier is decided.

“Teams have dropped points but a few will come on strong.

“We just have to keep concentrating on winning every game.” PARTICK Thistle manager Alan Archibald i s happy with his squad after adding Miles Storey and Conor Sammon.

Archibald does not expect to bring in any more players before the end of August after signing the two strikers hours before last Friday’s 1-0 defeat by Celtic.

When asked if his business was done, Archibald said: “I think so, at t he moment, unless anything crops up that we need to go back i n, any injuries or in case we lost anybody.

“But as things stand, if the window was to close tomorrow, that would be us.”

Storey was unfortunate not to get an injury-time penalty and Thistle’s defeat was put into perspective by Celtic’s 5-0 Champions League play-off win over Astana.

“You saw on Wednesday

Alan Archibaldnight how good a side Celtic are,” said Archibald ahead of tomorrow’s Ladbrokes Premiership meeting with St Johnstone.“They failed to cut us open too many times, and that was one of the main positives we took from it.“We created a couple of chances and we move on. But it’s important we get points on the board.”