Livingston 0-1 St Johnstone: What Valakari said
St Johnstone manager Simo Valakari told BBC Scotland: "First of all, we should talk about Andy Fisher's saves in the first half - he kept us in the game. There was some great defending first half as well."I see it [Carey scoring] every day in training. What a player. He's got an extra special left foot. Beautiful, and we needed some magic tonight."Big credit to Livingston, they put us under pressure."It was that we are still strongly in this tie. We knew we needed to do things much better. We didn't have the quality to play under their pressure. We knew they'd press, we could not find second balls, could not find flow or rhythm of our game."Second half, everything changed. It was much easier for us. We were not right tactically first half. It looked like we didn't have energy."We changed our defensive shape and our players looked much more aggressive, we started winning balls."There is no weight on our shoulders in the Cup. In the Premiership, we fight for our survival."Barry Douglas said in the dressing room, you think as a young player you'll get many opportunities, but your career goes fast. You might never get the chance again. Now we can enjoy it."
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