3 days ago
Kilmarnock 2-1 Dundee United: What Goodwin said
Dundee United manager Jim Goodwin: "We always had a concern about this afternoon's fixture given the exploits on Thursday night. "The boys have played 120 minutes of football on Thursday, very little time to recover for the game, Kilmarnock were the fresher team and I think that showed. But that's no excuse for some of the goals we conceded. "The first goal was shocking, the second goal is embarrassing. We've had numerous warnings in the last couple of games, we've not dealt with a wide free-kick. "I thought the game overall wasn't a great spectacle. In the second half we offered very little. "We find ourselves going out far too early at this stage of the cup competition. The real frustration from us is that we haven't been undone by wonderful football, today we've not defended situations well enough. I had a feeling we'd run out of energy in the second half and that's what happened. "I don't know what we've done to deserve the bad fortune that we've had since we've come back from pre-season. We thought we had finely tuned the players. I think Max Watters' injury is a fatigue injury. "He's put a lot into the last couple of weeks, he came late into the team, he sprinted for that ball and felt something go behind his leg. We don't know what the damage is, we'll have to get another scan but the injury list is a joke at the moment. We're going without some really important players and we're asking a lot of those we do have available."
