Wright won’t be too hard on stars after slack show

ST JOHNSTONE boss Tommy Wright cut his players some slack after seeing their unbeaten run ended by a determined Motherwell side.

Wright, though, bemoaned the errors which the Fir Park team ruthlessly punished.

He said: ‘We’ve got to look at how we started the game and that cost us. Even at the start of the second half we gave the ball away and gave away cheap corners, and that builds up pressure and you get agitated.

‘We talked about doing the basics right because the conditions weren’t ideal. From the start of the game we don’t clear our lines well. We give away a needless corner which leads to the first goal.

‘We know that they are strong at set-plays. The second goal we lost the ball cheaply and had two chances to clear their lines and we don’t do it and they stick it away and we are two down.

‘It’s always going to be difficult from then. We had the better of the chances after that and should have got a draw.

‘I don’t think we deserved to win the game but there were enough chances there when you put the penalty miss in. But the ball just didn’t fall right for us.

‘There was things we could’ve done better and there was still some good play in among it but ultimately we’ve dropped three points when we should’ve come away with a point.

‘I can’t be too critical, though, it was a great run we were on.’

Fir Park counterpart Stephen Robinson said this victory was for the Lanarkshire faithful.

He said: ‘The weather didn’t help but we deserve great credit. We were on fire, we scored two early goals, and managed the game really well.

‘We’re a very young squad, but the boys managed the game well and when we went two up it gave us the cushion to hit them on the counter attack.

‘If I’m being highly critical, we should have picked better passes when we broke and we should have won by more.

‘We should have had a penalty and the game should have been more comfortable.

‘But they showed tremendous character and dug in and battled in really difficult conditions.

‘Our fans will go down the road happy because the boys really played for the shirt today.’