Now, here’s a quote you won’t find in the tourist brochures of this country.

“Welcome to Scotland, the opposing players kill me,” said Sofien Moussa of the kind of warm Caledonian welcome that used to be reserved for invading armies from the other side of Hadrian’s partition.

In the crash, bang, wallop of the Scottish game, Moussa has adapted fairly quickly it seems. “I have learned that I have to kill them back,” he added of a tactic usually employed in the jungle warfare of the Pacific theatre. “This is football in this country. You need to be aggressive in Scotland because the league is hard here.”

Such has been the level of perceived violence in this opening couple of paragraphs, you’re probably expecting the page to start seeping blood.

It’s not quite that gruesome, of course, but Moussa can certainly handle himself on the frontline. His robust, rampaging display was too much for Partick Thistle to handle on Saturday and two goals from the penalty spot ended a long drought that could’ve prompted a hose pipe ban by Dundee City Council.

It had been three months since the Tunisian target man last hit the net but a sizeable burden has been lifted off his shoulders with a timely brace.

‘Of course it was a concern for me,” said the 29-year-old of his barren spell. “Strikers need to score. It is my job. I had pressure on me. Before the game I told myself it was my last chance. If I hadn’t scored, would I be out the team? You need to ask the manager that. But I told myself it was my last chance.

“I have a very good relationship with the gaffer. He knows I work hard. I was calm when I took my penalties. I needed to take responsibility. Against Partick the last time, we lost and AJ [Leitch-Smith] took the ball off me. I was on penalties and the gaffer asked me why I didn’t take it. But it’s forgotten now.”

Neil McCann, the Dundee manager, was full of praise for Moussa’s all-action performance which combined powerful industry with some neat, considered invention.

McCann had given his troops a right old going over in the wake of a sorry surrender to Hearts in midweek and this was the response he was looking for.

“After my goals I ran to celebrate with him [McCann],” added Moussa. “He’s a good man. I know the fans have been very angry because strikers need to score goals in every game. I accept the critics.

“The gaffer told me I work hard for the team but I need to start scoring goals. But scoring two is not enough. I need to keep scoring goals for the team. We have a very good team. We can play the top six teams easy.”

While Dundee continue to look up, it’s a case of one step forward, two back for toiling Thistle. who face Celtic on Wednesday.

After last week’s much needed win over Motherwell, this was a damaging dunt to the brittle morale.

“You can say everyone in the dressing room wanted to win this game,” said Ryan Edwards. “But desire is also about taking care of the ball, putting a foot in and not just shadow pressing and winning individual battles. None of that happened. Dundee did all that and that’s why they won.”