Stephen Robinson admits St Mirren plotted their own Aberdeen FC downfall as boss names where blame lies

Unhappy Stephen Robinson insisted St Mirren only had themselves to blame for an awful day at Aberdeen.

The normally solid Buddies leaked three soft goals and their manager knows that left them empty-handed. Robinson felt the performance against the Dons was decent but his team shot themselves in the foot. The manager said: "I felt we were in total control of the whole game. We only had ourselves to blame for losing. We were in control of the ball for the first two goals.

"We lose a corner from a throw-in for the first one. Then we didn't defend the corner as we intended, two of our players ran into each other and then Ellery falls over a bit because of that. That's disappointing and preventable. The second one is the same again. We make the wrong decision and we get punished for a miskick. The third is just poor defending, so all three goals are totally preventable. I don't think Aberdeen cut us open, as the home team. If you make those mistakes, you don't deserve to win football games.”

Robinson knows his squad will put this to bed and put all focus on their trip to Norway. They are 1-1 with SK Brann going into Thursday’s trip to Bergen. He knows his team will need to show more resilience.

He confirmed: “We have to put it to bed, but we also have to learn from our mistakes. We're usually very good at defending, especially from set pieces. I have to take full responsibility for that.

"We have to make sure that doesn't happen again and fully concentrate on the Brann game. We have to be better than we were in the first leg. We got a terrific result but our performance was poor.

"Today our performance today was decent but we didn't get the result. I'd settle for a poor performance over there and get the result! We're a