Tale of the tape in the games at Fir Park

In the words of new manager Jim McIntyre, a Dundee side on a dreadful run of form is “haemorrhaging confidence” with every passing heavy defeat.

Whichever way you look at them, the statistics for the Dark Blues this season make for grim reading. You can’t talk up the 11 defeats out of 12, or the three losses without a goal scored since McIntyre took over.

Not many Dundee fans are drinking from a pint half-full these days.

Cause for optimism ahead of tomorrow’s trip to face Motherwell can be found, though.

And it comes in the form of their record at Fir Park.

The teams have played 10 times in the last decade and Dundee have only lost on two occasions – an end-of-season game in April, 2018 and in December, 2015.

In that time there have been some crucial (and big) wins.

The two recent results that spring to mind are the 3-2 in April 2017 – Neil McCann’s first game as interim boss after Paul Hartley had been sacked – and a 5-1 a few months earlier that was by some distance their biggest margin of victory in the Premiership.

If there is one top-flight ground where history suggests Dundee’s season could turn around it is Fir Park. Dundee’s last 10 results at Motherwell:

April 28 2018 – lost 2-1 December 23, 2017 – drew 1-1

April 29, 2017 – won 3-2 February 25, 2017 – won 5-1

September 27, 2016 – drew 0-0

December 12, 2015 – lost 3-1

February 21, 2015 – won 1-0

October 18, 2014 – won 3-1 November 10, 2014 – drew 1-1