East Kilbride Thistle co-boss Alan Paterson was left mystified as his aspect fell to a 4-1 defeat at Yoker on Saturday, regardless of placing in a ‘high efficiency’ within the first half.
Paterson says anyone leaving at half-time with the West of Scotland League Convention C conflict at 1-1 would have anticipated crimson playing cards or mayhem within the second interval to supply the emphatic defeat, however insists he has no concept what occurred.
He stated: “I felt the primary 45 minutes was the very best we’d performed in a very long time, we have been unfortunate to be stepping into at 1-1.
“I felt we had dominated the sport, we have been sharp, first to each ball, and simply taking a wee little bit of care in entrance of aim and we'd have received the sport.
“We missed a very good variety of possibilities, we battered Yoker within the first half, after which got here out within the second half and I don’t know what occurred.
“We gave away an affordable second aim, then an affordable third and the fourth simply summed it up, as a result of it was a comedy of errors.
“I’m baffled that the staff that performed within the first 45 minutes was the identical staff that misplaced that recreation.
“When you left that recreation at half-time and someone had stated we bought beat 4-1, you’d be saying: ‘Why? Did they get gamers despatched off or one thing’?
“You’d by no means have know that was the result, in order that was disappointing.
“We had 5 boys from the under-20s in our squad, on the bench and one beginning, as a result of we have been all the way down to the naked bones.
“However I simply can not fathom how we misplaced that recreation.”
Jags are idle now till travelling to Neilston on April 2, and Paterson (pictured, left) says that may give them an opportunity to get gamers again.
He stated: “We've a free weekend and it offers us a few weeks to attempt to get boys again match, and different boys getting back from accidents.
“At the very least with no fixture we will get on the coaching pitch and attempt to get issues sorted.”
With 5 video games left of their season, Paterson says there’s no extra room for error.
He stated: “Each recreation is a must-win recreation now, if we've any ambition in any respect. Saturday’s defeat was a giant body-blow; if we had performed actually badly then you definitely’d say you don’t know the place you go from there, however we performed very well and bought beat.
“They’re all must-win video games, so we simply must attempt to keep collectively till it’s mathematically unimaginable for us to not do something.”
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