Delighted Mark McGhee praised his Dundee gamers for piling the strain on the shoulders of relegation rivals St Johnstone.
The Darkish Blues recorded an extended, overdue win as they lower the hole on Saints to 3 factors.
Dundee may nonetheless be relegated on Wednesday if St Johnstone choose up a degree towards Aberdeen however McGhee was delighted his group did all they might.
McGhee claimed: “It provides them lots to consider. Not solely that however for us, we will take a look at this end result tonight and suppose we have now an opportunity on the weekend of profitable as effectively.
“If we misplaced tonight, then it’s throughout, nevertheless it wouldn’t have given us as a lot hope going into Sunday.
“However now, you take a look at it and suppose the probabilities are that we'd get a end result on Sunday.
“They’ll really feel that strain as effectively however I don’t anticipate St Johnstone to take zero factors from their ultimate two video games.”
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McGhee admitted he gained’t hassle taking within the Saints recreation and his sole focus shall be Dundee’s youth recreation right this moment.
He answered: “Will I be at St Johnstone? No. We’ve bought a youth recreation right here within the afternoon, so I’ll watch that after which I’ll simply calm down.”
It was McGhee’s first win on the thirteenth try and he all the time felt a end result like this was coming.
He claimed: “I’ve been speaking about this incremental enchancment after which we had the catastrophe on the weekend. I did say we felt as if the spirit was there.
“I don’t suppose they performed with extra freedom. I believe we simply bought the proper moments within the recreation."