Stephen Robinson believes his Buddies have been unlucky to see Celtic break their resilient defence final evening.
St Mirren have been holding agency till the second half when a set piece fell kindly for Cameron Carter-Vickers to slam dwelling and open the scoring.
Callum McGregor doubled the Hoops' lead in comparable circumstances, with a cross into the field dropping completely to the Scotland worldwide who fired in a decisive second.
Robinson insists he was greater than happy with the defensive efforts of his facet however admits they wanted to be braver on the ball to come back away from Glasgow with a constructive end result.
Robinson instructed Renfrewshire Stay Sport: "It’s irritating. That they had quite a lot of possession, quite a lot of possession in entrance of us.
"Defensively I believed we have been glorious. We have been rather well organised and acquired to half-time and so they created minimal possibilities. Second half till the purpose I’m unsure Jak had many saves to make.
"“It was two ricochets within the field, one which fell to Carter-Vickers and the opposite comes off Conor McCarthy’s face and lands straight at Callum McGregor.
"If you will come to Celtic Park and lose it’s normally a 30 yard wondergoal or a little bit of mixture play. It wasn’t.
"I believed we have been actually disciplined, actually organised. We could be braver on the ball, that’s the largest factor out of the final two video games I’ve discovered. It’s one thing we have now to get higher at.
"The boys executed the plan very nicely. I solely set them up, it’s them that deserve the credit score. They didn’t really feel underneath any type of risk.
"I’ve been right here quite a lot of instances the place you assume you could possibly find yourself dropping 15-0 the way in which Celtic are taking part in. We didn’t really feel like that in any respect at any stage.
"We felt in management out of possession and we simply weren’t fairly adequate on the ball to create issues or get ourselves up the pitch usually sufficient to truly earn a degree or three factors.”
St Mirren stifled the house facet with a dogged defensive efficiency final evening at, holding the Hoops degree at half-time and limiting the hosts to only a few clear reduce possibilities.
The Paisley facet have been hoping to repeat the feat after the break, however quickly discovered themselves going through a mountain to climb when defender Carter-Vickers produced a striker’s end to slam Celtic in entrance.
And Hoops captain McGregor made positive of the end result with a composed low end to place the sport past the Saints, with the membership nonetheless ready for a primary win since Jim Goodwin joined Aberdeen.
Subsequent up for Robinson is one other powerful check on the street, this time an extended journey north to face in-form Ross County in Dingwall on Saturday.
A win there may be crucial to make sure the Paisley facet don’t slip additional out of the highest six race, with a recreation nonetheless in hand towards Dundee but to come back subsequent Wednesday evening.