Danny Redmond is urging his Hamilton Accies team-mates to play with carefree abandon – despite the building pressure of the relegation dogfight.

Accies travel to Dens Park this weekend for a crucial encounter with Dundee as they try to pull themselves away from second-bottom Kilmarnock who occupy the dreaded play-off spot.

While they are still four points clear of Killie with three games left, Redmond knows the Accies can’t afford a repeat of the 4-0 trouncing they suffered at the hands of the Ayrshire outfit last Saturday.

And the 25-year-old midfielder reckons his team-mates now need to combat the fear factor by displaying some flair.

Redmond said: “We sat through the Kilmarnock game again with the gaffer and, hopefully, we can progress from that this weekend. I don’t think I can describe what went wrong last Saturday.

“Maybe we put too much pressure on ourselves. The gaffer had told us beforehand just to go out and do what we’d been doing in the couple of games previous to it but we didn’t get the performance we wanted.

“We need to put that right this time out. We need to go out and play with the kind of freedom we know we’re capable of.

“The intensity has been there at training and we need to take that tempo into the match. Previously, when we haven’t done so well, there’s always been a positive reaction the following week.

“Last week Killie put pressure on us from the first whistle. When we start games well then it all just flows from there and we do well but being put on the back foot didn’t help us, especially in that first half. We were disappointed with that.

He added: “The first goal is massive in any game because it gives you the confidence to play. You don’t over-think things, you just do them. When you go a goal down it’s different but we’ve just got to kick on from that.

“It’s getting to that time of the season when results really matter but at least our fate is still in our own hands. We’re still four points clear of Kilmarnock and we’re just going to take as many points as we can from these last three matches.”