Having beaten Falkirk 1-0 and Kilmarnock 2-1 at Dens since Christmas, Dundee went along the road to Tannadice full of confidence and were able to celebrate at full-time with a jubilant away end.<\/p>\n
Dundee are now unbeaten on their past four visits to Tannadice and avenged their derby defeat at Dens earlier in the season.<\/p>\n
“We knew coming into this game – we’re on the back of two really important results – but we know the importance of this game,” Pressley said. <\/p>\n
“It was a pivotal game and I couldn’t be prouder of the players.”<\/p>\n
Former United manager Ian McCall was at Tannadice as a pundit having also watched Dundee lose 1-0 at Motherwell on 20 December.<\/p>\n
He was impressed by the improvement since that game and says the result was “thoroughly deserved”.<\/p>\n
“Dundee had no attacking intent at Motherwell,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It’s only two or three weeks later, but they look full of confidence. The Dundee United back three didn’t know how to handle Ashley Hay.<\/p>\n
“Fair play to Steven Pressley. You can comment on his record, but you can never think he won’t be up for a fight.”<\/p>\n
Before Dundee stunned Celtic in October, they struggled in the league, winning only one of their first eight matches.<\/p>\n
Pressley admits he has been through tough moments during a testing campaign, but says his players have kept him going.<\/p>\n
“They are an amazing group,” he said. “It’s been a difficult season and they have helped me get out of my bed at times.<\/p>\n
“I love working with them – every day they want to be better and they are beginning to find their way. Hopefully this is the start of something good.<\/p>\n
“I know there will be moments where you have setbacks, but as long as we stay strong, hopefully we can build something.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having beaten Falkirk 1-0 and Kilmarnock 2-1 at Dens since Christmas, Dundee went along the road to Tannadice…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-350771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}