Frustration for Wright at sorry Saints KO
ST JOHNSTONE became the second Scottish team to suffer European humiliation in a couple of days as they followed Rangers by flopping to a dismal 1-0 defeat against Europa League minnows FK Trakai in Lithuania.
The result saw the Perth team exit the competition 3-1 on aggregate.
And manager Tommy Wright insisted he desperately needs more quality after home and away defeats to a side they dominated last night, but lacked the attacking quality and guile to make the breakthrough.
Not only could they not grab the two goals required in Vilnius, they couldn’t even manage one and that was against a team who had to play with ten men for 33 minutes after Arunas Klimavicius was sent off for two bookings.
St Johnstone even lost it at the death from a breakaway goal from Maksim Maksimov, who also netted last week.
Wright said: “It was a game we shouldn’t have lost – it was a game we should have won.
“All night we got into good positions, our approach play was good, but our final cross let us down.
“We lacked that quality and ruthlessness to capitalise on the amount of opportunity we had in good positions.
“They weren’t better than us. They can enjoy their night and they deserved it because they made fewer mistakes than us and that’s cost us dearly. The damage was done last week.
“I’ve been here four years and I have worked extremely hard to make sure this club performs at the highest level and get the best out of what we have.
“I believe the squad is crying out for a little bit of help and hopefully we can get that because it is frustrating for me as a manager.”