Stephen Robinson Discusses St Mirren’s 2-0 Defeat to Dundee United and Marcus Fraser’s Red Card

St Mirren manager Stephen Robinson expressed his disagreement with the decision to issue a red card to Marcus Fraser. Robinson offered his perspective following the 2-0 defeat to Dundee United, stating: “We’ve won games and got points when we’ve played a lot worse than that, let’s put it like that. There were very good aspects of our play, but credit to Dundee United, you know, they defended when they needed to defend, they defended their box brilliantly well, I have to say. I thought Declan Gallagher was outstanding. “We didn’t have the quality we have had in recent weeks in the final third, for the bits that we can control, but the game changes on decisions as well. But we have to take chances and we have to be better with our creativity in the final third as well. “Sometimes that happens. There was a lot of good stuff to like about it. When you win, everything isn’t brilliant, when you lose, everything isn’t woeful and you need throw everything out. “There were a lot of good points, a lot of good performances. As I said, I think our end pass, our final decision was what it has been in recent weeks and that’s the bits that we can control. “We can’t control two VAR reviews in the first half that go against us, and a VAR in the second half that goes for Dundee United. We can’t control that. We can only control the bits that we work on and those bits that can be improved.” Regarding Marcus Fraser’s red card, he further commented: “That’s, yeah, I don’t agree with that decision. I’ve seen that footage back. If that’s a red card, then we’re all in trouble for the game because there’s minimal contact. It was debatable whether it was even a penalty. “I think Dundee United didn’t feel it was a penalty either. So to have a red card and now lose a player because of it, it’s a hard one to take. But as I say, we’re not in control of that. We’re not in control of the referee’s decisions or VAR decisions more to the point. We can control our final third decisions. We have to be a little bit more ruthless in that final third and that’s the things we’ll keep working on.”