Gaffer Goodwin despairs over Buddies’double defensive blunder

We need to defend the cross better.

“Conor McCarthy gets himself into a good area at the near post and he needs to clear it. It’s as simple as that. Morelos is never going to miss that from two yards out.

“It was really, really disappointing.

“We felt we deserved something from the game, but Rangers will feel it was ‘job done’.”

As well as some woeful defending, there was more misery for the Buddies when star playmaker Jamie McGrath was stretchered off with a suspected hip injury.

Goodwin admits he’ll be saying a prayer tonight that he won’t be without his talisman for too long.

He said: “We aren’t sure yet, but

Jamie would not go down and go off on a stretcher if it wasn’t serious.

“He will go for a scan tomorrow and we will say our prayers that it’s nothing too serious.

“Initially, he took a bang and we thought it was a dead leg or he was winded. But it was on his hip.

“He was struggling, but we had made all our substitutions and we wanted him to try and get through it.

“But hindsight is a wonderful thing. I wish we had taken him off immediately, but I didn’t realise it was as serious as it was.

“He’s tried to overstretch to get on the end of a diagonal from Connor Ronan and something has went. He’s a big player for us, so, hopefully, it’s nothing too serious.’

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