St Mirren coach pays tribute to 'amazing' players for fronting up to Livi challenge
dailyrecord.co.ukJamie Langfield revealed he has incredible respect for the efforts his Buddies gave him after being thrown to face the Lions without a proper manager in charge.Goalkeeping coach Langfield revealed before the Livingston game that managing his boyhood club even just for one match was a “dream come true”.And while he admits he didn’t enjoy every single minute of Saints 1-1 draw with Livi on Saturday, in which he led the club alongside coaches Andy Webster and Allan McManus, he was delighted with the way his team stuck together in the face of adversity.The 42-year-old Paisley man insists the way the St Mirren players responded to losing their manager Jim Goodwin on the morning of the match was an absolute credit to the club.Langfield told Express Sport: “Livingston were probably better than us over the piece.
Davie (Martindale) will probably feel a bit aggrieved that he’s not taken three points.“But to keep our unbeaten run going is testament to the players.
Our boys battled and got us a point.“You saw in the first half we were a wee bit all over the place.“I’ll take full responsibility for that because we’ve probably not done enough work as we should be doing going into a game.“It’s been a bit more hectic and all over the place.
We’ll take that as coaching staff and that’s solely on us.“In the second half, they were causing us a lot of problems down our left-hand side so we had to change it.
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