Ross County co-manager Stuart Kettlewell has urged the Staggies not to allow another opportunity to move off the bottom of the Premiership pass them by.
County need to defeat St Johnstone in their final league match of the campaign at McDiarmid Park tomorrow, and hope second-bottom Partick Thistle do not win at Dundee.
The Dingwall side failed to take advantage of Thistle’s 1-0 loss to Motherwell on Tuesday, with County’s 1-0 defeat to Dundee keeping them two points adrift of the Jags.
Although County’s fate is out of their own hands, Kettlewell says his side must ensure they complete their side of the bargain in Perth in order to secure a relegation play-off spot.
He said: “We have to keep believing, it’s that simple. We can’t just roll over and accept it is now out of our hands.
“We have to do our job. That was probably the greatest frustration on Tuesday, the fact results did go our way.
“In these moments, you have to capitalise and do your job.
“Whatever else happens on Saturday, if we win the game we give ourselves a chance. We have an opportunity to get out of the position we find ourselves in at the bottom of the league.
“But we have to do our job. There is no use us coming away at the end of Saturday and saying ‘if only we had taken that chance’.
“It gets to that stage where there is one eye on what happens at Dens Park, but that won’t change our mentality to the game.
“We’re bitterly-disappointed from Tuesday, but we just have to pick ourselves up – which we have done – and we’ll take a look at the players today and see who is at what stage and who might be struggling through a couple of knocks or niggles.
“Then we’ll ask them to get themselves up and go and play that one last time and see where it takes us.”
A decision will be made on goalkeeper Scott Fox after he was forced off against the Dark Blues in midweek with a thigh strain, being replaced at half time by Aaron McCarey.
Kettlewell added: “Scott had a problem with his thigh on Tuesday. He was struggling and obviously came in at half time and felt he had an issue.
“That meant we had to make a change, which isn’t ideal. That’s a couple of times now where we’ve had to change our goalkeeper.
“But there was nothing we could do about it at the time, certainly. We’d obviously prefer to have that extra change to make that maybe changes it offensively, especially when chasing a goal.
“We will assess Scott and see where he’s at and then obviously make that decision.”
