Airdrie skipper says his side will bounce back from batterings

Adam Frizzell says Airdrie can’t let heavy back-to-back beatings get them down.

The Diamonds followed up their 5-0 hammering at Ayr in the Championship with a 6-1 thrashing at the hands of Dundee on Saturday in the Premier Sports League Cup last 16 to leave Rhys McCabe’s side wounded.

But club captain Frizzell insists they need to put it behind them and get back to winning ways when they host Queen’s Park in the league this weekend.

He said: “Truthfully, we’re probably a wee bit embarrassed.

“The team has bred a winning mentality over the last two years and we’ve now taken two gubbings in the last two weeks.

“We just need to pick ourselves up. We were playing against a good Dundee team that can punish you, but to gift them four goals from corners was naive.

“We know where we are going wrong, we just need to go back and work on it. We looked in our shell a wee bit. I think this comes off the back of last Friday’s result. When we got the ball down and played, there were signs there and there have been signs there right through the cup.

“We know we’re a good team, we just need to get back to doing what we do well.”

Frizzell, who has been at the club since July 2021, has been on the end of big batterings before and knows the squad has it in them to recover quickly.

He added: “I’ve been here before at Airdrie. In my first season we got off to a slow start, albeit in League One.

“And I’ve also lost 6-0 to Edinburgh City. It happens in football, there’s highs and lows.

“You’ve got to realise we’re playing against a very good team in Dundee. A team that narrowly missed out on Europe last year.

“Coming up here was our own doing, a reward for us from finishing a good second in our group. You could say this was a bonus game for us,