Boydy irked by wasted chances
KRIS Boyd was disappointed that Kilmarnock failed to turn superiority into a win against Dundee on Saturday.
His manager Lee Clark had been upbeat about the way the team had gone about their business away from home against one of the teams they are scrapping with to avoid being dragged into the relegation battle.
But the Killie skipper was adamant the need to focus on results had wider relevance.
“When you look at the last two performances [against Dundee and Hamilton] and the way we’ve dominated the ball for the first 30, 35 minutes, I think we switch off the bread and butter of football.
“You have to win your second balls, win your headers – which we’ve done in the last two games until the 30-minute mark.
“Then all of a sudden, do we think we’re better than we are? I don’t know.
“We end up popping it about, but it’s part of football. Yeah you want to look good, you’re fed up listen- ing to the manager going into press conferences and saying we’ve had X amount of possession, we’ve had X amount of passes.
“It doesn’t matter how you win. You go and score more goals than the opposition – that’s it.
“For us that’s what we need to get back to. Sometimes it takes doing the ugly part of the game to see it out.”
As even opposing boss Paul Hartley acknowledged, Killie were the better side.But Boyd’s classy finish early in the match was cancelled out by Kevin Holt midway through the first half.
However, the Ayrshire side’s skipper was still frustrated that they did not get more from it.
Boyd added: “We’re disappointed but we need to realise that defending better will lead to getting more points on the board.”