Talking point

The spotlight will be on United to see if they can play with intensity for 90 minutes. They let the standard drop in that second half against Queen of the South and that can’t happen this time. ahead of us at the top but we have to just focus on ourselves. It will not be easy to catch them but we have to play our game and maybe we can put pressure on them if we keep picking up points.”

For that to happen, though, Mikkelsen knows they will have to avoid the kind of performance level dip that saw them lose two second half goals to the Doonhamers despite being three-up and cruising in the cup-tie.

“We could definitely be satisfied with the first half in that cup game but we maybe didn’t do as well as we could in the second half.

“We scored three good goals in the first half and were playing well but then they came back into it.

“However, we got through the game and won it.

“It would be good if we could keep up that intensity we showed in the first half for 90 minutes against Morton.”

Meanwhile, Morton defender Rickie Lamie insists back-to-back clashes with their promotion rivals aren’t any more daunting than facing teams battling against relegation.

He said: “There’s a cluster formed at the top end and it’s important we keep ourselves there or thereabouts because we’re well aware that a couple of