St Mirren manager Stephen Robinson: “It’s a relief, there’s no other way to put it. I’ll enjoy it for 24 hours and then worry about the next game.
“We haven’t won in a while, so there was a bit of apprehension coming into the game. We always say, If you keep clean sheets, then you’ll win games.
“We stayed compact and solid. We know we need to play better than that. There wasn’t much between the two teams, but we scored in good moments.
“I wish the win came a bit sooner, but we’ve now earned the right to enjoy this week. We’ll train hard and we’ll go and watch Celtic a couple of times this week. The players have chosen not to wear suits for the final and don’t want to go to hotels.
“The players want it to be as normal as possible, because they don’t want any emotion involved in it. We’re looking forward to it, we’ll enjoy it afterwards if we get a result but we’ll certainly enjoy the build-up.”
Dundee United manager Jim Goodwin: “We’re going through a really difficult period at the moment. The only way out of it is for us to stick together, keep working hard and hopefully we’ll be able to come out the other side of it.
“I don’t think that St Mirren were the better team today. I thought we had more dangerous attacks. In the last 10 minutes, we’re committing that many bodies forward, and we got caught on the counter attack a couple of times.
“But Sapsford got that one one-on-one in the first half, then he hit the crossbar with a free-kick, Craig Sibbald hit the crossbar, Fatah had a good header, but in games like this, you need to be clinical, and today we weren’t.
“St Mirren took the two chances that they had, took the three points that they deserved at the end of the day.”
