Dundee striker Kenny Miller insists the players must stick together if they are to drag themselves out of their demoralising rut.

Neil McCann’s side have lost their opening four Premiership matches - their last five in all competition - and are already three points adrift at the bottom of the league.

The most recent set-back came in last weekend’s 3-1 home defeat to Motherwell in which Miller made his debut after leaving his post as player/manager at Livingston just two weeks earlier.

A trip to Rangers awaits the Dens Park club next Saturday and Miller insists the squad has to remain unified if they are to kick-start their season.

The former Gers player, who won his appeal to the SPFL against the manner in which the Ibrox club took disciplinary action against him at the end of last season, said: “When you’re low on confidence and things are going against you, it’s hard to get out of that rut.

“You saw the life drain out of the team a bit, the first goal is a sucker punch but the only way you get out of that is by staying together, working hard.

“We’ve got players who are injured who will hopefully be back after the international break, and they are good players who will hopefully give you that boost.

“It’s a lot of hard work and sticking together.”

Miller insists Dundee are coming off on the wrong side of the fine margins that are crucial to determining the outcomes in matches.

He added “I don’t think we played particularly well but you’re in the game at nil-nil at half-time.

“Like so many games in this league it can be a mistake or a moment of magic for someone that makes the difference.

“On Saturday, that wee mistake went against us and we were punished, not just for the first goal but probably the three goals.

"It was really disappointing with the manner of the goals we lost.

“Then we were (Motherwell goalkeeper) Trevor Carson’s big toe away from going 2-2.

“We showed a wee bit of character to get back into it and we had two, there chances.”