Dundee United manager Mixu Paatelainen was once again left in disbelief after seeing his side throw away yet another lead before losing 2-1 to Dundee at Dens Park.
United had scored first in four of their previous six Ladbrokes Scottish Premiership matches coming into this match but failed to win any of them, and it was a similar story in the latest Tayside derby.
The visitors went ahead through Blair Spittal’s 15th-minute strike and, according to Paatelainen, should have had the points wrapped up by half-time.
He said: “We should have had the game sewn up by half-time. I’ve said this quite a few times now – how did we lose that game? It’s quite unbelievable.
“Throughout the 90 minutes, there is one team that passes the ball systematically, one team that creates goalscoring opportunities, one team that has a system to worry the opponent – yet we lose the game.
“Yes – the first goal we conceded, we could certainly do better there. It was a needless free-kick, then what happened in the box is not good enough. We need to look in the mirror.
“The second goal is something that has happened consistently. It starts from the free-kick, which is never a free-kick in my mind.
“In that situation our player goes in strongly to protect the ball and they both fall. I’m disappointed with that.
“Everybody sees how we play, how we pass the ball, how we create goalscoring opportunities.
“We should have been two, three nil up at half-time, or maybe three one.
“I am worried, because there are two ways in football. There’s creating opportunities and scoring goals – which we are doing – but there is also stopping opponents scoring.
“Opponents score every week against us. We don’t obtain clean sheets. We’re not sharp enough.
“We can talk about luck, Dundee rode their luck against us, they were very lucky with the second goal – very lucky. But you can also say we should have done better with the first goal.
“I believe the more you try, the more determined you are, the more focused you are, you create your own luck.
“That’s something we don’t have out there. But we’ve said this for a few weeks now and it simply must stop.”