East Kilbride's win over Cove Rangers shows quality to compete with SPFL sides, says boss

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East Kilbride boss Mick Kennedy reckons Saturday’s 3-2 SPFL Trust Trophy win over Cove Rangers proves they’ve been unlucky against senior teams this season.Kilby took the lead three minutes into the third round tie at K-Park through former Motherwell kid Adam Livingstone, with veteran Mitch Megginson levelling for Cove in 14 minutes.It looked like the tie was heading for penalties until Myles Gaffney netted for the League One club in 84 minutes.But Jack Leitch levelled for East Kilbride three minutes later, with ex-Hamilton Accies and Airdrie striker Steven Boyd popping up with a winner three minutes into stoppage time.Kilby were thumped 8-0 by Airdrie in their Premier Sports Cup group, but beat Dumbarton on penalties and lost to both Queen of the South and Premiership side Aberdeen.Kennedy reckons they competed well in most of those games, but came up short, until Saturday.He said: “I’m delighted with the performance.

Not having Cami Elliot, our central focal point of the team there meant we had to shift things about a wee bit, but I think anybody watching it would have said we deserved to win the game – we were excellent.“We reacted well.

It looked in the last 10 minutes like the game was going to go to penalties, and then we got that sucker-punch goal against us.“We changed our shape, put two up top, and fair credit to the boys, they had that determination to pull it back to 2-2 and then go and win it.“It’s a wee bit of a scalp, but with the exception of the bloody nose that Airdrie gave us, in the other games in the cup competition we competed really well.“We did well against Aberdeen, beat Dumbarton and were very unlucky against Queen of the South.“We’ve been unlucky against teams above us, so it was good to get a