Jim Jefferies post Stirling

"We need to take our chances to kill off teams when we get the opportunity rather than waiting until late on on the game before you finish it.

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Jim Jefferies was pleased to take the three points out of the Pars first visit to Forthbank since March 2011. Commenting after the 2-0 win he said:-

"We knew that it was going to be tough because teams always raise their games against us. I felt in the opening twenty minutes we were excellent. The tempo of the game, some of the movement and passing was great.

"Probably the move of the season allowed Moffat to get in on goal but he put it over the bar. If we had scored we would have gone on to win comfortably.

"I have got to say that after twenty minutes we dropped our standards. We dropped the tempo, our passing wasn't as sharp as it had been. What we did through making one or two mistakes was to give the opposition encouragement. I felt we gave that to Stirling for maybe the last twenty minutes of the first half.

"We started giving away silly free kicks and the pace of our play dropped. We had a few words at half time and came out and dominated the second half. There is no doubt about that.

"They are always liable to hit on the break but we were solid enough and the bottom line is that we should have won that game a lot easier than we did. I think we were so far in front in the second half.

"We need to take our chances to kill off teams when we get the opportunity rather than waiting until late on on the game before you finish it. That game should have been won in the opening twenty minutes because we created two or three great chances.

"Moffat was unlucky with a great header across the bar that came at him pretty fast. He should have stuck that one away but it is just not happening. It will come but it was made harder than it was.

"There is no doubt that we deserved to win because we were the far better side. There were spells in the second half when it was just wave after wave of attack.

"They sensed that they could maybe get something out of the game and yet at 0-0 our goalie had to make a great save. It was a misplaced clearance that fell to the boy (Graham Weir) and Scully who has had nothing to do has had to make a great stop. That was great concentration from him.

"By the way, if they had scored, we would only have had ourselves to blame because we should have been taking our chances. Gozie missed one from five yards and there were one or two other good chances that went a begging.

"Sometimes in that area it is all about decision making and today one or two decisions weren't right. When we did get the opportunity, we wasted them.

"When it is like that you keep playing away and the one thing that these boys have is the resilience to keep going. They got the goal from a great move.

"The second one was another great move except that Shaun Byrne should have scored. He didn't catch it right, he should have buried it but it broke kindly for Faissal. He needed a goal badly and he stuck it away so it was good.

"It was a hard game for Sorel Chemin to come into after being registered yesterday. We felt that if we could get into a good position we could give him a wee run. Even though it was tight at that time, I felt that we had the ascendancy and could maybe have got something out of him. At least he has had a wee taste of it, he will play for the u20s on Tuesday and we will see what he is like there."

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