Boss Jim can’t fault team in stalemate

JIM DUFFY has hailed his players attitude despite dropping two opening day league points to Dumbarton.

The team remained deadlocked at the end of 90 minutes on Saturday at the Cheaper Direct Insurance Stadium.

But the Greenock boss has tempered his disappointment with realism.

He said: “The attitude of the players was terrific; the willingness to try and win the game was there – but we just lacked that bit of quality in the final third.

“That’s always going to be the key in any game of football.

“We had a couple of chances late in the game we thought could be the one, but it just didn’t fall for us.”

“It was always going to be a very difficult match, the first day away to Dumbarton, but I think we deserved all three points really.

“We tried to win the game from the first minute to the last minute but we weren’t really as composed and sharp as we would have liked to have been in the final third.

“Defensively, I thought we were very good and the midfield worked very hard to try and get on the ball.”

Duffy credited Sons keeper Scott Gallacher for keeping his team at bay, especially in the seciond half.

He added: “He had a terrific game. We tried to win it. We didn’t sit back.

“Normally, with 15 or 20 minutes to go, the away team would probably say: ‘0-0 will do us, this is a good point for us’ and it was.”