David Gray urges Hibernian to finish on winning note ahead of split

Hibernian head coach David Gray wants his side to show how far they have come since their lowest point of the season when they host Dundee.

Hibs remained rooted to the bottom of the William Hill Premiership when they lost 4-1 at Dens Park on November 23 with just one win in 13 matches.

They have since beaten every team in the league other than St Mirren and Dundee, who they also drew with at Easter Road in August.

Gray told Hibs TV: “It is another massive game. We’re clearly on a fantastic run of form but the full attention has to be to try and finish with three points before we go into the split. We know it will be a really difficult game.

“When we think back to the reverse fixture, that was the lowest point of our season to date. We are a completely different animal from where we were then to where we are now. We need to make sure that we finish this period with three points and that will be the full focus.”

Gray is determined not to let up as his side bid to go into the split in third place after a 16-game unbeaten league run which continued with a 2-0 win over Rangers at Ibrox.

“It will be a real difficult game,” he said. “With the results last weekend, Dundee are very much a team that will be fighting for their lives, so there’s no easy games and we know that.

“Everyone is at different stages of the season and have different things to play for, but as of right now we have everything to play for and so do they.

“They have scored a lot of goals, I think they’ve scored the same number of goals as us which is the third highest in the league.

“So we know they are a constant threat, they force you to defend a lot, they have a lot of high energy players that pass forward and run forward which will make you defend.

“The flip side of that is we know we need to be good defensively. On the other we need to be clinical and make sure we start the game well because Dundee are a team that notoriously start games well – so we need to be ready for that.”