Aziz Behich can be Dundee United escape artist having proved survival instincts three times over

Aziz Behich is not fretting over Dundee United’s league position because he is a relegation-fighting specialist who has vast experience of scrambling out of trouble.

The Australian international was involved in three dogfights during his time in Turkey and helped his teams to come out on top each time. The left-back hopes to use those experiences to United’s benefit as they scrap to get off the Premiership basement. They have a big game today as the bottom two square up, with Ross County having home advantage in Dingwall.

Behich said: “I’ve been in this position plenty of times before so I know what it’s all about. I’ve had three relegation battles and won all of them. I was involved in one with Bursaspor, Kayserispor and also last season with Giresunspor but we did well enough in the final month to get away with a bit to spare. So I know how to handle it and the big thing is not pressing panic buttons. You all have to stick together.

“This situation will be new to a few boys. It’s not nice but in my experience you just have to tackle it head on.”

The Socceroos ace knows it is a time for everyone at United to stick together and insisted: “You can’t drop your confidence and you can’t start pointing fingers at each other.

“You have to focus on each game as it comes along and not be distracted by anything else. I believe in the squad we’ve got. I believe we can get out of it – we have enough experience to dig ourselves out.

“You have to win the big games and if you do that then you give yourselves a good chance. This weekend is a big game. It’s away from home and we have to go into it with the right mentality. On a bad run you sometimes think everything is against you but you can’t let yourself get into that mindset.

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