| The Dark Blues head off for their week-long stay on Thursday morning and will be in action on Saturday against Austrian lower league outfit SV Hallwang.
Next up is a game against German Bundesliga 2 outfit FC Augsburg a week tomorrow.
Manager Jocky Scott scrapped a planned bounce game among the squad on Saturday.
“The lads had put in a good week’s training and had done everything we asked of them, so I decided to give them the weekend off,” explained the manager.
Chris Casement continues to recover from an ankle injury, while Leigh Griffiths was again an absentee due to a cold and his inclusion in the party that travels to Austria is now in doubt.
Meanwhile, Mickael Antoine-Curier featured for an hour as Guadeloupe went down 2-0 to Mexico at the CONACAF Gold Cup.
However, the Gwada Boys had already qualified and meet Costa Rica on Sunday in the quarter-finals, and Curier’s chance of involvement in that one may have improved as his replacement last night, Ludovic Gotin, was sent off.
Back at Dens, the club have installed a temporary ice pool to cool players down after training-ground stints and help them recover quicker when they pick up knocks.
However, the manager has, so far, refrained from dipping his toe in the water. “There is nothing wrong with my legs,” laughed Jocky. |
