Sweet and sour day for Queen of the South boss after win over Arbroath

Winning Queens boss Peter Murphy reckoned their weekend triumph over Arbroath was a real sweet and sour affair.

He savoured a sweet victory for the first time after three straight defeats without scoring, but insisted the final stages of their 2-1 victory soured his view of the match.

The Red Lichties piled forward in the dying embers to try and salvage at least a point including sending their keeper Aidan McAdams up for a last gasp corner.

Murphy said: “The football was quite good until the last 10 or 12 minutes which has soured my day really.

“You do expect a team to throw everything at it near the end and they had brought their keeper up, but I think we could have managed the game better. That’s my gripe.

“We probably got sucked in to going a bit long too early.

“We had a couple of opportunities to kill that game, but that’s what happens and you give the other team an opportunity and they start to over commit players forward.”

He added of the display: “But apart from that, how we started the game was outstanding and some of the football we played and with the opportunities we created I thought we looked quite dynamic and at the end of the game we defended quite well with Ross Stewart commanding his box.

“There were loads of positives, but it was just that last 12 minutes that soured it for me.

“I will be demanding more, no matter what.”

Queens clinched the points with a slick move from a corner kick practised on the training ground which ended with the corner being switched out the box first time by Kai Kennedy for Reece Lyon to drill home a superb winner.

Murphy said: “I had a go at them at Inverness where we did a different type of set piece and it was turned down to do it.

“So my demands on the players are that if