St Johnstone grabbed a survival lifeline after scoring twice late on to grab a 2-1 win over Motherwell.
Motherwell appeared set to achieve revenge for final week’s Scottish Cup defeat after taking a fourth-minute lead via Andy Halliday’s penalty.
However the rock-bottom Saints turned the match on its head in a dramatic finale, substitute Taylor Steven levelling within the 86th minute earlier than Bozo Mikulic struck the winner two minutes later.
The end result leaves Saints seven factors behind second-bottom Kilmarnock, who have been crushed 3-2 at Hearts.
What the managers mentioned…
St Johnstone supervisor Simo Valakari: “Everybody can see the battle is there. What they did tells me all the pieces about them, the workforce could be very collectively.
“That’s the solely approach we’ll give ourselves an opportunity to outlive, everybody has to stay collectively.
“There’s a number of discuss momentum in soccer, when you’ve gotten it the ball begins bouncing for you and issues begin dropping for you. However it’s important to do all the suitable issues for that to occur.
“We have never been able to use the positive moments to build momentum so far this season.
“So to return again and win it the best way we did, it might be very important.
“It wasn’t luck, it was down to the boys pushing and pushing, scoring a goal and then going for another one.”
St Johnstone’s Bozo Mikulic celebrates scoring to make it 2-1
Motherwell boss Stuart Kettlewell: “We completely switched off; don’t stand strong in our own penalty box.
“Finally, for me, that is the place we have to ask the query about that psychological energy, that psychological capability to have the ability to stand sturdy.
“I didn’t think we’d done well in the second half. Once you start to drop off, you start to concede that pressure, you start to concede territory.
“You need to present a much better dedication to defend your penalty field. We merely did not have that – and that is the tip end result.”
