Aid to zip the blip

“It is not as if we got beat by getting battered, we dominated most of the game and they have hit us on the break.

The 1-0 defeat at home to Queen of the South on Saturday ended Dunfermline‘s six match unbeaten run during which the team beat Partick Thistle and Falkirk. Hoping to play his part, Aidan Connolly feels that the team can recover from the setback and get back on a winning run:-

“It is a wee blip, just now but it is not as if we got beat by getting battered, we dominated most of the game and they have hit us on the break.

“They never really had many chances. Before they scored they only had the one where Dobbie skiffed it. I don’t think our keeper had a save to make, but we just have to keep going and move on to the next game.”

Victorious manager Gary Naismith admitted that he had set his side up to stifle the Pars play and 23 year old Aidan felt that worked:-

“They were hard to break down, hard for the wide players to get on it and we struggled. We had chances throughout the game. Their keeper has had a few good saves - Andy Ryan’s one from the edge of the box, Lee Ashcroft had a header in the second half that was saved. Once they scored it was hard to break them down.

“We are a good team and that is why teams come here, sit in and try and hit on the counter attack. We are going to come up against that again but we need to find ways of getting the points when teams come and do that, we need to get better at breaking teams down. It is done now so it is on to the next game.

“I didn’t feel that the Queen of the South game was my best game. I didn’t put as many crosses in as I would have liked. But on to the next game, we have to look forward to that because it is done now, we cannot change Saturday.”

Speculating that Dundee United are not a team that will pitch up and sit in, Aidan continued:-

“Maybe we will get more space in attacking areas and more time to punish.” The former United player is also keen to face his first club for the first team me since leaving in January 2016.

Aidan has featured in all 16 Dunfermline games this season except the win in the opening league match at Tannadice. Having come up through the Dundee United youth system to make 37 appearances for the club Aidan is looking forward to United coming to East End Park on Saturday:-

“I am keen to play every game, when I look at how I have done okay but I need to score more and have more of an impact on the game.

“It is my old club and I still know a few boys that are there. Every game is important and you have to treat every game the same.”

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