Giovanni van Bronckhorst admitted it was “three factors within the bag and go house” after grinding out a win at McDiarmid Park.
Glen Kamara’s speedy opener for simply his third purpose of the season was sufficient to seal victory and maintain the strain on leaders and rivals Celtic.
It was removed from a traditional efficiency from the champions on bobbly pitch in Perth nevertheless it was job finished for the champions.
And talking on Sky Sports activities afterwards, Dutchman Van Bronckhorst summed up his night’s work when he mentioned: “Three factors within the bag and go house.
“Typically soccer is like that. It was a really robust recreation as we predicted earlier than the sport.
“There have been a whole lot of duels, a whole lot of lengthy balls. The pitch wasn’t the usual we wish to play our recreation so we needed to play slightly bit otherwise and the the early purpose lifted us up.
“They opened up after that and within the first half we had a whole lot of possibilities to attain. We hit the publish, a shot from shut vary over the bar.
“I don’t assume we gave any possibilities away within the second half. We needed to battle to win this recreation and we did.
“The quick begin was key as a result of they began with 5 defenders they usually modified the system after the primary purpose which made it slightly bit simpler for us.
“It’s all the time good to begin however as we mentioned earlier than we had many possibilities towards however I felt defensively we have been very strong and received our duels and typically a recreation wants that.
“If you happen to rating a purpose and are ruthless in defending then you'll win the sport and we may have win with a better margin however we’re pleased with the factors.”
Sky Sports activities pundits Kris Boyd and James McFadden questioned whether or not Van Bronckhorst absolutely trusted his squad after failing to make any modifications regardless of a nervy ending.
However he mentioned: “Typically you flip issues round to vary one thing however I didn’t really feel we would have liked change, and was so targeted within the recreation to get the win after 90 minutes.
"So I didn’t take into consideration modifications.”