St Johnstone 1-0 Hamilton Academical: What the manager said
St Johnstone manager Simo Valakari: "Good that [Adama Sidibeh] got his goal after a long wait. He has been working so hard."Hamilton came with a game plan and didn't bend it at any minute. How we dealt with this cup tie was very good. We knew they would get a couple of chances, and we kept going."We kept pushing and in the end we get our result. I had a good feeling because we did the right things. "We now leave the cup competition for a while and concentrate on the Premiership."
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