Jordie: If we go top, we’ll stay there

DUNDEE United midfielder Jordie Briels has no fears facing free-scoring Dunfermline tomorrow, saying “if we go top, we’ll stay there”.

The Pars have been on fire this season and currently lead the way at the top of the Championship, two points ahead of the Tangerines with St Mirren sandwiched in between.

Tomorrow’s hosts have swept all before them at East End Park, scoring 24 goals in just six games at home.

Their current ratio of three goals a game in the league, too, would have most teams concerned ahead of any meeting.

For Briels, though, that sort of up-and-at-them style on show from Allan Johnston’s men will suit the Dutchman and his team-mates down to the ground — and the prize of potentially going top is all the incentive anybody in tangerine needs.

He said: “It’s better for us to play against good teams who want to play attacking football. “Then we can show our quality. “There are a lot of physical games in this league and not too much ball possession but if you’re playing for Dundee United, we want to play football.

“If you play against teams who don’t want to play football, it’s difficult.

“If we win tomorrow and go top of the league, I think we’ll stay on the top all season.

“That’s our plan and if you see the games recently then you can see it’s coming good.”

After a fairly sticky start to the campaign, midfielder Briels reckons the hard work being done on the training field is starting to pay dividends.

That was evident to some extent last weekend in the home win over Morton, something the Dutchman expects to continue the more the squad get used to playing together.

“I think we played well against Morton.

“In the first half we had a lot of chances.

“In the Falkirk game before we played well as a team, too, we just