While there is no shame in losing to the high-flying Steelmen, the big picture is gloomy for the Dark Blues. Three of their next four games are at home (to Falkirk, Kilmarnock and Hearts) with a trip to play city neighbours Dundee United in among that little lot. Given everything highlighted above, this feels like being a critical quartet of games for Pressley and his team.
To coin a well-used football phrase... "it is a results business".
At a time when all sorts of statistics and measurements are used to analyse a team and its progress – or lack of it – the most important stats are found in the wins, draws and losses columns of the league table.
And Dundee head coach Steven Pressley wasn't pulling any punches after watching his side's latest defeat in a 1-0 loss at Motherwell.
"I'll only be given enough time if I get appropriate results," he said.
"I've been in football for 35 years I'm not delusional. We have to win games and if we don't eventually the hammer falls on the manager."
While there is no shame in losing to the high-flying Steelmen, the big picture is gloomy for the Dark Blues.
Pressley's side are on the grimmest of runs – nine defeats in their last 12 games, a run which has seen them muster just seven points from the 36 on offer during that sequence.
They are 10th in the table – above Kilmarnock and Livingston who are enduring similarly miserable campaigns.
With the bottom three in real danger of being completely cut adrift from the teams above them – make no mistake, these are worrying times for Dundee.
Three of their next four games are at home (to Falkirk, Kilmarnock and Hearts) with a trip to play city neighbours Dundee United in among that little lot.
Given everything highlighted above, this feels like being a critical quartet of games for Pressley and his team.
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