The Press and Journal (Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire)

Neil McCann

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There is absolutely no fear in that dressing room, I think they showed that throughout the duration of the game.

St Mirren have got good players who can hurt you. We respected them in the build-up and the match. They are going to put you under pressure at stages.

We are a Championsh­ip team, this was my 13th game in charge in a very short space of time.

It is natural that they are going to be tired.

They got a bit of fortune and maybe St Mirren will say they deserved it. I say maybe we deserved some tonight.

I wish Jim and St Mirren all the best in the next round.

I think we won a lot of respect tonight.

We are an attacking team.

We coach to be really discipline­d and hard to beat out of possession.

But the one thing we coach is to be really brave in possession, go with speed and a bit of freedom to make mistakes.

It was a really good football game for everybody to watch.

There were chances at both ends, some great saves and shots off the woodwork.

We are rightly disappoint­ed but there were a lot of good things about the game.

They moved Richard Tait in to man-mark Scott Allan because he was really pulling the strings and starting to find space.

That gives him a lot of confidence but as a group we were really strong.

It was hard to make a sub.

Sometimes you make a sub because your tactics aren’t working but I made it through Nikolay Todorov getting tired. Otherwise I was happy with how we performed.

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