Livingston skipper Nicky Devlin admits he was at fault for the Lions’ loss to Inverness and says they should be extra medical at each ends of the park.
The Premiership outfit journey to Cove Rangers on Saturday coming off the again of a 2-1 residence loss to Inverness Caledonian Thistle on Tuesday night time which successfully means failing to select up the three factors will finish their curiosity within the Premier Sports activities Cup.
They spherical out their marketing campaign at residence to League One aspect Kelty Hearts on July 23.
The total-back has held his fingers up following their midweek loss however insists there’s no panic within the camp regardless of a sluggish begin to the marketing campaign.
He stated: “We simply need to try to choose up two wins within the final two video games and see if 9 factors is sufficient to get us by way of.
“I’ve performed sufficient video games now and I’m skilled sufficient to know I’ve personally made two massive, massive errors that has price the workforce. I maintain my fingers as much as that. I’ve clearly made a mistake for the primary objective after which form of killed Max with the purple card.”
He added: “It’s disappointing as a result of we all know how aggressive our group goes to be. We all know shedding one in every of our video games, that could possibly be sufficient to knock you out the competitors.
“Everyone seems to be dissatisfied; supervisor, gamers, everybody concerned. It’s one thing we’ve bought to place behind us as a result of we’ve bought a really tough sport coming Saturday.”
Devlin, now in his fourth season on the Tony Macaroni Area, believes there’s been optimistic indicators of their cup video games in opposition to Inverness and final weekend’s slim win over Albion Rovers and believes it’s only a case of missing match sharpness.
He commented: “I believe the issue has been to date we’ve had good spells in video games then once we come off it for 5 or 10 minutes we're conceding.
“It’s about attempting to chop out the errors for the targets which can be costing us however massive components of the video games have been okay.
“I don’t suppose any workforce is in control by way of the place they need to be going into the season.”
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