Stephen Robinson will revert to his tried-and-trusted again three as St Mirren look to bounce again from the largest defeat of his 4-yr reign as supervisor.
Robinson matched Motherwell’s 4-2-3-1 formation on Saturday solely to endure a 5-0 thrashing and St Mirren will seemingly undertake extra acquainted ways after they journey to face Livingston on Saturday.
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“I changed the shape – it was a step too far for them and we need to get back to absolute basics of putting balls in behind people,” he stated.
“We were good at what we’d done. I’ve tried to change that. I’ve tried to evolve that with the squad that we have because we don’t really have what we had before available to me at this moment in time.
“We tried to place two wingers on the pitch. We tried to be extra attacking. We tried to go that again 4.”
However, Robinson insisted none of the goals conceded to Motherwell “had been often because of the system”.
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“If we take a look at the targets, they had been actually, actually poor targets,” he added. “Four out of the 5 targets had been particular person errors.
“I’m not going to hang anybody out to dry. I have to take full responsibility. We make mistakes in life, but that has to be me that looks in the mirror.”
