Stephen Robinson praised the character of his St Mirren facet after they bounced again from their crushing defeat to Dundee by defeating Livingston within the cinch Premiership.
Sean Kelly’s first-half personal purpose settled a hard-fought encounter wherein Saints handed up various good possibilities to win by a higher margin.
Robinson’s crew stay third within the desk having ended a run of three video games with out a win and now maintain a two-point benefit over Hearts and sit 4 in entrance of Hibernian.
“I’m delighted, it was a extremely, actually powerful recreation,” Robinson stated.
“It’s a troublesome recreation that we’ve come out on high of, we’ve reset ourselves, it was powerful after a 4-0 defeat and it reveals nice character from the boys.
“Once you play Livi it’s a battle, it’s a scrap and the sport is diminished to longer balls. You need to land on seconds and you need to be bodily – I feel we’ve completed that.
“The pitch was slippy, actually arduous to play on and a chilly day – it’s these days that you just present your character and I feel we’ve completed that in abundance at this time.
“We’ve proven character, a grit and steely dedication to see the sport out – and will have received perhaps by extra in the long run on the counter assault however for our choice making.”
Robinson is hopeful he is not going to be with out the companies of Richard Taylor for an prolonged time period after the defender was taken off on a stretcher with what gave the impression to be a nasty wanting ankle harm.
The Buddies gaffer reckons Taylor is a significant doubt for Tuesday’s journey to Ross County however may come again into the reckoning within the close to future.
“It’s not as dangerous because it regarded I don’t assume, he walked off the stretcher afterwards,” he stated.
“We’re hopeful, Tuesday could be a push however we’re hopeful it isn’t too severe.”
David Martindale felt his Livingston facet did not do sufficient to advantage taking something from their journey to the SMISA Stadium.
Livingston have slumped to the foot of the desk following their sixth successive Premiership defeat.
“I don’t really feel like we must always have gotten one thing from the sport however that’s me most likely sitting with the destructive hat on as a result of we’re not selecting factors up,” Martindale stated.
“Everyone knows the essential fundamentals are that we have to begin selecting factors up as rapidly as doable.
“I attempt to not assume an excessive amount of about luck, I’m an amazing believer that you just get what you’re employed for in life and also you’ve obtained to attempt to maintain your head down and dealing arduous.”
