‘Keep knocking them out’ urges Terrors skipper

DUNDEE United captain Mark Reynolds i n sists they must keep their foot on the gas as they draw ever closer to sealing the Championship title.

United stretched their lead at the top of the table to 17 points with a 4-1 win at Partick Thistle on Saturday, extending their unbeaten run to 12 games in the process.

That kind of form and gap at the top has the Tangerines in a very strong position to have automatic promotion wrapped up as early as the end of March.

And skipper Reynolds has stressed the i mportance of keeping up their winning momentum as teams around them wait for a slip-up which doesn’t look like coming.

The 32-year-old said: “I think it’s just about momentum and keeping on winning and winning.

“There was a lot of games postponed on Saturday and we were in that position last year where we were looking at other results.

“I’m sure a lot of teams are looking at us thinking ‘Partick is a tough place to go’.

“Since Ian McCall came in, I think their form has been the second best in the league behind ourselves so they’re getting a bit of a resurgence.

“A lot of people were maybe looking at the weather, the pitch and the conditions thinking we could maybe slip up so it was a good three points.

“We just keep knocking them out and putting the wins together.

“We need to keep going until it’s mathematically impossible for anyone to catch us.”

Centre-half Reynolds heaped praise on former Aberdeen team-mate Lawrence Shankland for his hat-trick hero’s display in the convincing win at Firhill but made a point of hailing the whole team for getting the result with an unorthodox starting XI.

Reynolds himself started at left-back with new boy Dillon Powers one of the less familiar faces thrown in at the deep end amid an injury crisis.

“We had to shift a few boys about but that’s going to happen,” he added.

“Just a few weeks ago we were so strong and had a few players