Battling Saints praised

RECOVERING from going a goal behind early to beat Motherwell and do the same to draw with Dundee is a sign that St Johnstone are now made of the right stuff to finish a stressful and arduous season with their Premiership status intact.

Clearly, the plan will be to score first and stay in front against St Mirren tomorrow, but Callum Davidson knows that these days a one-goal deficit doesn’t bring with it the near inevitability of defeat that was the case for much of the campaign.

“That wasn’t happening before,” said the McDiarmid Park boss on his team’s ability to mount a comeback.

“Those little things matter.

“Apart from Rangers and Celtic, we know we’re competing on level terms with everybody we’re playing against now.

“We’ve got belief we can score goals.

“Obviously, I want us to get ahead in games and play with a positive mindset after that, but coming back shows character. They don’t give up.

“It’s all positives compared with where we were in November and December.

“Hopefully we’ll take the lead against St Mirren and keep applying pressure on them.”

Davidson added: “Our home form has been very good. The crowd have been brilliant at McDiarmid, as they were at Dens.”

Callum Davidson