DUNDEE manager Neil McCann wants his team to focus on consistency of method as they bid to follow up their opening Ladbrokes Premiership victory.
McCann's side got off the bottom of the table with a 3-2 victory over St Johnstone last weekend, their first three points of the season, and the Dens Park boss does not believe the subsequent 4-0 Betfred Cup loss to Celtic signified a backward step in performances.
McCann would love a second consecutive league win against Kilmarnock at Rugby Park but he knows his players have to firstly make sure they are playing the way he is instructing them to play.
The former Scotland international said: "The momentum is something that will build gradually and naturally anyway, but what I'm focusing on is going down to win a game of football like we do every week.
"I just think it (the victory over St Johnstone) reinforces the trust in the work we do and belief in what we are trying to achieve is the right way to go about.
"I know Wednesday night looks like a heavy defeat, I don't think it was a heavy defeat in that respect. I know the boys did trust their shape and I have spoken to a number of people from outside who say that we were well structured and well organised and put in a hell of a shift.
"You have to do that against Celtic, but you have to do that against Kilmarnock. It's the exact same.
"Kilmarnock, we don't look at as any weaker to Celtic. They might have weaker individuals but as a group we still have to prepare the exact same way and apply ourselves the exact same way.
"And if we do that, we stand a brilliant chance of winning the match."
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