Allan: We’re inches away from clicking

DUNDEE midfielder Scott Allan insists it’s only a matter of time before the Dark Blues show their true colours as a “right good side”.

Despite sitting bottom of the Premiership table with no points yet on the board, Allan is taking plenty of positives from the performance at Aberdeen on Saturday.

For the second week running, Dundee passed up a host of good chances before eventually falling to a third defeat of the season.

Allan said: “I think it’s just a matter of time before it clicks.

“One thing I’ll say is you’d be more worried if you weren’t creating chances.

“Aberdeen are regarded as probably the second-best team in the country — we came to their place and more than matched them, limited them to set-pieces basically.

“I had a good chance second half, I maybe should score. On another day it goes in but I think we have to take the positives.

“We’re just inches away from being a right good side.

“It’s been an early learning curve but as a team we’re learning still, new manager, new players but it’s just a matter of time before it gels.”

The on-loan Celtic midfielder also thinks a bit of naivety cost them at Pittodrie for Stevie May’s winning goal.

After both Marcus Haber and Faissal El Bakhtaoui had been struck down with injury, the Dark Blues were down to nine men momentarily when the Dons knocked i n the winner.

However, not before the Dundee midfield had the opportunity to knock the ball out to allow their substitutes onto the pitch.

Allan added: “The goal was unlucky and a wee bit naïve in another way.

“We won’t make that mistake again when we’re down to nine men. If that happens again or something similar, we’ll put it out of play.

“It was a wee bit of naivety on our part but it’s early in the season, there’s a long way to go, and we’ll definitely learn from it.