Archibald rues missed chances

The Jags had looked on course for a narrow victory following James Craigen's opener just before the hour, but Balatoni diverted Phil Robert's cross past Paul Gallacher in the 90th minute to seal an unlikely point for the visitors.

That left Archibald regretting a string of missed opportunities to punish Dundee on the break as they pushed men forward in search of their equaliser.

"I didn't see it coming, I thought we were comfortable to be honest," Archibald said after the 1-1 draw.

"Once we got our goal we looked ok, and it came from a deflection which you can't really do anything about.

"(Not killing the game off) is probably the biggest disappointment, when you lose a goal from a deflection in the last minute you always look at the other end as well and I thought when Dundee were pushing we could have picked them off by choosing a better option two or three times.

"There was some good defending by them as well getting some great blocks in, but I thought we should have picked them off.

"That's two home games in a row we've drawn one each and that's the difference, that's how we're not in the top six. St Johnstone today won 1-0 and they're grinding out 1-0 results, that's why they are in the top six."

Dundee manager Paul Hartley was glad that his side managed to avoid the ignominy of their fourth straight league defeat, however he conceded that they were fortunate to pick up the point that sees them move above Kilmarnock into seventh place in the SPFL Premiership, and has urged his men to improve their game.

"I'm happy with a point," Hartley said.

"I didn't think it was a good game of football to be quite honest with you. We huffed and puffed a little bit.

"Once we lost the goal we lost a little bit of confidence, but we dug in right to the end and I thought the substitutions made a difference in terms of the pace of the team, but we've got to play better."

Hartley now hopes that the slice of fortune his side enjoyed can put some momentum back into their season, which has stumbled somewhat recently on the back of poor results and a string of injuries.

"Hopefully it will kick-start us again," he said.

"We'll take all the breaks that we can because we've not had many this year. We'll take the point away from home, it jumps us up a place and gets us moving again.

"We've got a big period coming up and we're really struggling for numbers, and we've had a few more injuries today, so we've really got to look at the next few weeks in terms of our personnel."