Evening Telegraph (First Edition)
Difference for Dee is putting ball away
The difference between Dundee’s survival and otherwise will come down to one thing — taking their chances when they come along.
It’s been a problem all season and, when you combine that with a leaky defence, you end up in the position the Dark Blues find themselves in.
After a gruelling seven days last week, though, any worry of the drop has been eased.
There’s still plenty of time for everything to go completely pear-shaped, however.
What they have shown in the games against Hearts, Celtic and even the heavy loss at Rangers is they are playing well.
Dundee are not playing anything like a team that looks like it’s going down.
The Hearts game started it with a good battle that probably should have merited all three points.
Then a deserved point at Celtic Park followed.
Those exertions at Parkhead and Dens before it made it a game too far against Rangers by the end.
The Ibrox side ended up running away with the game and, to be fair, it could possibly have been more than 4-0.
You’ve got to feel a weekend off should freshen up the defence’s legs and, hopefully, with it tightening things up at the back.
What they have shown recently, in the wee break before the Hearts game at Dens, is an ability to put extra time on the training field to good use.
That bodes well with another 10 days to go before they face their first post-split fixture.
What the Rangers game did highlight — and this is something that’s been glaringly obvious all season — is an inability to take opportunities when they come along.
Had Sofien Moussa or Simon Murray been able to put away one of their chances with the score at 0-0 or 1-0, then things would certainly have been different.
Shortly before Kenny Miller’s opener, the crowd at Ibrox were getting restless with Dundee dominating.
However, Rangers took their chances and the scoreline looks like a real doing.
The key now is for Dundee to keep the heads up — and for Pete’s sake put the ball in the net!