Falkirk v Dundee: John McGlynn expects frustration from Steven Pressley

John McGlynn expects Dundee boss Steven Pressley to try to frustrate his Falkirk side on Saturday.

The pair know each other well from their time together at Hearts in the early noughties, when McGlynn was a coach and Pressley was a player.

Dundee head to Falkirk Stadium buoyed by their shock 2-0 win over Celtic last weekend, and Bairns boss McGlynn said: “Dundee are off the back of an amazing result. I know Steven very well from working with him at Hearts.

“The way he set up against Celtic was different class, everything you would expect from a defensive-minded coach in terms of organising a team.

“I’m not sure exactly if they’re going to come here and do the exact same, or if they’ve got some kind of tweak in it, but I don’t think they’ll be expansive and open.

“I think they’ll want to be pragmatic and try to deny us and hit us on the counter-attack, as they did against Celtic.”

McGlynn, 63, and Pressley, 52, even had a spell together in caretaker charge of the Jambos in 2005, and the Falkirk boss said of his Dundee counterpart: “He was always a talker on the game.

“He’s obviously very opinionated and he would always be talking about the game and what he would do, what formation he would play back in the day. So, yeah, it was a certainty that he would be involved in coaching and management, that was a gimme.”