Steven Pressley praises Dundee goalkeeper Jon McCracken after costly mistake

Dundee manager Steven Pressley revealed goalkeeper Jon McCracken apologised for the late error which allowed Livingston to earn a vital point in a 2-2 draw.

Substitute Tete Yengi squeezed a tame back-post effort through McCracken’s legs with five minutes left.

The Dark Blues had been in command at the break courtesy of goals from Yan Dhanda and Cameron Congreve.

But the home team improved following the interval and pulled one back through Jeremy Bokila in the 64th minute before Yengi salvaged a share of the spoils.

Pressley, whose side climbed up to 10th in the Scottish Premiership, said: “Jon apologised after the game.

“I’ll be honest. Jon is a goalkeeper who has performed great this year.

“He is growing. It’s a period of 17 or 18 consecutive games for the first time in his career.

“He will make mistakes but it’s all about how he responds to them.

“He has been a good goalkeeper for us this year.”

Pressley was frustrated his team were not able to hold on for the victory after being in such a strong position.

He added: “Considering the fact we were 2-0 up, we will be disappointed by the draw.

“We move up a place in the league table, which is a positive.

“But from a winning position, we are disappointed we don’t come away with the win.

“This is a difficult place to come and the wind was a problem.

“We played extremely well in the first half and were very much in control.

“We just didn’t manage to get control of the game in the second half and they put us under considerable pressure.

“This is part of the growth of the team. When your team goes through different experiences, you grow.”

Livingston manager Davie Martindale admits the players did his half-time team-talk for him as they exchanged some choice words.

He said: “They actually were having a go at each other, which I was really, really happy with so I let that happen, let that calm down.

“They’re doing it in the right way, not in a negative way, not in a physical way or an aggressive way.

“They’re putting demands on one another and over the years I think it’s something that’s coming out of the game.

“I went in and said my bit, told them we need the next goal.

“You don’t need to be a coach to understand that one, that’s plainly obvious, if you get the next goal you’ve got a chance.

“I spoke about the negatives because I thought the two goals were so bad, so bad defensively – really, really poor.

“The feeling at half-time was we needed to up it even more.

“We felt it would take an even bigger performance in the second half to get something from the game.

“Credit to them for the way they responded but we are disappointed.”