Staggies result and display would be ideal

Sam Stanton hopes Dundee United can repeat their Ross County heroics when they head back to the Highlands.

Stanton was part of the Tangerines side that travelled to Dingwall last month and claimed three valuable points after Paul Watson’s first half strike gave United the lead.

A solid defensive display from Robbie Neilson’s men got them right back in the promotion mix, only to trip in the last two matches at home to Ayr and away to Morton.

They head north again today to take on Inverness Caley Thistle looking to regain momentum. Stanton believes they need to repeat their County feat if they are to secure another valuable victory.

The midfielder said: “It’s tough going up there to Inverness for anyone. We’re more than capable of going up there and getting a positive result.

“When we won at Ross County recently, it was a really good defensive performance that day.

“On our day, we know we can beat anyone. We just need to get back to doing what we were doing before, when we were on that good run.

“I don’t think there’s any real reason for our wee dip in form. It only takes a few wins and we could be right back up there by Christmas.”

United seemed to have the points in the bag at Cappielow last Saturday only to concede an equaliser just 12 minutes from time. That left manager Neilson deflated and it wasn’t much fun for Stanton either.

“It was disappointing down at Morton,” Stanton added. We felt we did enough to win the game. Again, we still had chances to kill the game off.

“We have got to do a lot better with the goal which we lost. That side of it was not good enough.

“We watched the video back of the game. To be fair, the manager does that with every game, whether we win or lose. We look at all the good stuff and the bad stuff.

“Like the rest of us, he was just unhappy and wants to see a reaction.

“We need to win these kind of games if we want to win the league.”

ICT are the draw specialists of the Championship, having racked-up 10 already this season. One of those came at Tannadice on October 20, when Pavol Safranko’s goal was cancelled out by Jordan White’s equaliser for the visitors.

Stanton said: “Inverness were good when they came to Tannadice earlier in the season.