The Manager’s reaction
Two goals in three minutes, from Rowan Vine and Dave Mackay, made the difference midway through the second half as Saints leapfrogged Aberdeen into fifth place in the Clydesdale Bank Premier League.
Aberdeen manager Craig Brown could not explain his side’s poor defending.
A poor touch from Isaac Osbourne set up Tade for the opener and Vine scored after the Dons failed to clear a corner, with two Aberdeen players unable to head to safety. Davidson then capitalised on some hesitancy before Steven MacLean cut back for Mackay to net. Gregory Tade had opened the scoring with his second one-on-one in two minutes but Niall McGinn levelled for the Dons just before the break.
“It was a very poor performance from Aberdeen.
“How we can go from being excellent at the weekend to playing poorly in the last period of the game was unaccountable.
There was nothing in it till the second goal went in. It was pretty even up to that point. Langfield had one save the whole match yet we lost three goals.
“Each goal was a gift.
“The first goal in a game is always very important and we conceded it alarmingly softly but St Johnstone took their chances and got the victory.
“Jonny Hayes had a slight knock so did not start and we felt Rob Milsom was not ready to play three games in a week.”
The manager also told the press the club are speaking to former Bayern Munich keeper Dan Twardzik and the 21 year old will arrive at Pittodrie tomorrow for talks. The Pittodrie outfit are on the lookout for a replacement for Jason Brown, who left the club yesterday.
“We are talking to with goalkeeper Dan Twardzik tomorrow morning. He is coming over from Italy. We need cover in goal because we only have Danny Rogers who is a very promising goalkeeper but at 18 maybe not quite ready for the SPL. We know Dan is a good goalkeeper. We had him over on a trail earlier in the season.
“That is likely to be the only transfer movement.”
Steve Lomas said: “It was a great win and well deserved. The lads responded very well and I thought it was a comfortable win.
“Gregory did so well with the opener because he had just missed a chance. He could have been forgiven for snatching at the second chance but he was very composed.
“We looked pretty comfortable but then a little slip from Callum (Davidson) and (Josh) Magennis got past him and they got a goal just before half-time.
“That could have caused a problem psychologically but the boys stuck to their task. Michael Doughty came on when they were having too much of the ball and freshened it up. To get two goals in two minutes was brilliant and we could have got more.
“It has been our Achilles heel all season but in key periods we were ruthless in front of goal.”
