Levein backs Saints to win survival fight
St Johnstone boss Craig Levein has faith that his side can maintain their cinch Premiership status, despite defeat to Aberdeen dropping them into the relegation play-off place.
Bojan Miovski’s secondhalf penalty was the difference between the sides on Saturday and while the Dons are looking up the table, Saints are fighting for their lives.
Levein said: “We’ve played the two best teams in the bottom six sofa rand the next three games, if we win all three we’ll be fine. We have a decent record against ross County and Livingston, and I think we’ve drawn all our games against Motherwell. We need to roll our sleeves up and get back to work.
“The most important thing is that we keep trusting and believing in each other, and train well and put in a good performance next week.
“You need grit and determination, and confidence. You can get that back by winning one game, and I feel we’re looking at three winnable games.”
With Aberdeen’s interim boss Peter Leven absent having under gone an“emergency procedure” on Friday night, development coach Scott anderson led the team against Saints and he maintained the Dons are focused on finishing as high up the table as possible.
Becoming the fourth man to take charge of the Pittodrie side this term, Anderson said: “Peter said when he took charge that he was looking to win as many games as we possibly could. That’s our focus, to finish as high as possible. We’ve got another clean sheet and it’s fitting that Nicky Devlin won the penalty with his driving run and that he’s part of a back four that’s kept another clean sheet.”