St Johnstone skipper Liam Gordon calls for clinical performance in Scottish Premiership play-off decider

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Passionate Perth skipper Liam Gordon has called for a clinical edge to ensure Premiership status is retained.Saints squandered chances to build on a well-earned two-goal first half advantage in the Highlands on Friday night.They were made to pay and, in the end, Inverness recovered to net a 2-2 draw thanks to Reece McAlear’s double.Everything now comes down to Monday evening’s play-off second leg at McDiarmid Park.“I was saying to the boys not to be too down,” Gordon said of Friday’s result.“Obviously it’s a sore one, we didn’t want a draw after being two goals up, but that’s football.“We dust ourselves down and we have a big performance to come now on Monday.“Of course they will fancy their chances.

They’re in the play-off final, I don’t see why they wouldn’t.“But we fancy our chances as well. If we turn up the way we can, we fancy ourselves.“We just need to be that bit more clinical in the final third.

We had plenty of chances in good areas of the pitch.“We’ll look at that, we’ll reflect on the performance and how we could do better.”Gordon added: “First 65 minutes, I thought we were brilliant then we concede the first goal.“It’s obviously disappointing looking back at it.

Having seen the photo, the boy is at least three yards offside.“That’s in the second phase and there was a head knock before.