More attractive football will hopefully “slowly come back” for Dundee, according to Dark Blues captain Darren O’Dea.
But building up confidence with results, however they may come, is the priority.
The former Celtic and Republic of Ireland centre-back believes the three-at-the-back formation has made Dundee more solid in general.
He said: “After the Partick game the manager decided this was the way we were going to play.
“It wasn’t going to be pretty at times and it hasn’t been, but we’ve got some results and I feel the results will build confidence.
“With that we will slowly come back to playing more attractive football, if that’s what you want to call it.”
The 2-0 defeat to Kilmarnock last weekend was an undoubted set-back for the Dens Park men but the statistics confirm that they have been one of the hardest teams in the league to score against in the last month.
The improvement has followed one of the “toughest weeks” O’Dea has endured as a professional footballer.
He said: “After the Partick defeat it was as low as we’ve been as a team. It was a difficult period.
“I’ve been in a football a long time. That was one of the toughest weeks that I’ve had.
“We were struggling to play the type of football we want to play so we decided we needed to be tough to beat.”
