WILLIAM Edjenguele, the Dundee United defender, has insisted the Tannadice club can win their still win their last 10 Ladbrokes Championship games and lift the second tier title.

United fell 10 points behind second tier leaders Hibernian when they lost 1-0 to the Easter Road club at home on Friday evening.

However, Ray McKinnon's side have a game in hand against bottom-placed St. Mirren away in Paisley on Wednesday evening and can leapfrog Falkirk into second spot if they win it.

Edjenguele is refusing to accept the Tayside club's best chance of securing promotion back to the top flight is now through the Premiership play-offs

The French defender, though, admitted that United would have to pose far more a threat up front than they did against Neil Lennon's team in their last outing.

“After the defeat to Hibs at Easter Road I was asked if we are going into the play-offs now and I said 'let’s wait and see'," he said.

"I am in the same position now, it’s the exact same thing. Let’s see what Hibs do when they play Falkirk and Morton.

“All we can do is try to win as many games as we can, there are ten matches left and we have to win most games, if not every one. I still believe we can do it. I believe we can win every one. We went on a run of fourteen or fifteen games earlier in the season and we can do that again.

“If I didn’t believe that then I’d be as well just packing my bag and heading home to Paris or Coventry. But I do believe it because this is a good group of players. It’s just a matter of going to St Mirren on Wednesday and getting a win, then seeing what happens."

Edjenguele said: "We have to be more of a threat going forward in that match than we were against Hibs, though, because we didn’t create enough.

“It was a disappointing night because I felt that in the first 20 minutes we were well in the game, although we didn’t create enough chances. But the commitment was there and we were right in there, but what happened happened."

The 29-year-old feels being reduced to 10 men in the first half - Lewis Toshney was ordered off for a second bookable offence - had made United's chances of getting a result against Hibs difficult.

"It becomes a bit hard when you have a man sent off," he said. "Lewis has apologised to the rest of the team. But it’s one of them, he’s young-ish. When you challenge like that a few times the referee doesn’t have a choice.

“Was he too pumped up? Maybe, but you want that. When you are on a booking you have to be smarter, but we’re not blaming him. I was on a booking too and sometimes you have to stop yourself doing things in a match.

“They had chances, don’t get me wrong, but I felt we were still in there. We just didn’t create enough.”