St Mirren manager Craig McLeish: "I feel like we beat ourselves. Aberdeen taken their chances, but a minute into the game and we're a goal down. Conceding goals at the start again and giving ourselves a mountain to climb.

"We were excellent first half after that and should probably score at least another one. But our response to going down early was excellent.

"We knew they would get a blast at half time and change a couple of things. The first 15 minutes of the second half we didn't stand up to their change in intensity and agression.

"It's a poor penalty to give away - I think that's six penalties in the last nine games. And at this level you can't give teams goals. We're gifting teams goals. Then we switch off at a free kick. Aberdeen win the game - but we beat ourselves."