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Jim Goodwin confident goals will come for misfiring St Mirren

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Saints have only scored three goals in the Premiership so far.

St Mirren manager Jim Goodwin insists they only need to find those elusive finishing touches in their quest for goals rather than going back to square one.

Saints have only scored three goals across seven Ladbrokes Premiership games after drawing blanks against Albion Rovers and East Kilbride in the Betfred Cup.

Goodwin's side have still been competitive after losing only six goals – a defensive record which is better than every team outside of Celtic and Rangers.

They sit above Hibernian and St Johnstone in the table ahead of Saturday's visit to Motherwell, and Goodwin believes things will start to click in the final third.

"I'm of the belief that if you're solid and hard to break down, then things will change at the other end," he told the PA news agency.

"It's not because we are sitting with 11 men behind the ball and nobody in the opposition half. That's not the reason we are not scoring goals.

"We are offensive-minded when we are in possession. We have certainly got creative players within the team: Ilkay Durmus, (Kyle) Magennis, Kyle McAllister, (Junior) Morias, (Tony) Andreu, Jon Obika, Danny Mullen. We have some really good attacking options.

"For one reason or another we have not been able to find the finishing touch, but we have created plenty of opportunities, we have got ourselves in some decent attacking areas of the pitch. For one reason or another we have not been able to take the opportunities that have come our way."

Goodwin and his coaching staff have been working hard to fix that problem on the training field and he will also think long and hard over his selection for Fir Park.

"We have been doing plenty of crossing and finishing exercises, as you'd expect, but every team does them," he said. "We have been doing them since pre-season.

"We just need one of them to to find the back of the net now on a game day. We are desperate for the forward boys to get up and running and get that bit of confidence and self-belief that they are desperate for.

"We work hard on the players' fitness, we work hard on the organisation side of things defensively, and we spend a lot of time on the attacking third and how we are going to try and cut teams open and take those chances when they come along.

"The difficult part of training is that it's virtually impossible to recreate that pressure of a match-day environment. That's up to players on the day and I suppose it's up to me as a manager to pick players who are going to make the difference."

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Championship Group
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4Kilmarnock10104334952
5St Mirren10013945-643
6Dundee10014556-1141
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2Aberdeen11003649-1338
3Motherwell10014652-637
4St Johnstone10012549-2431
5Ross County10013258-2630
6Livingston11002459-3521
 
First Phase
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2RangersRangers33243672234975
3Hearts33195946341262
4Kilmarnock33131284334951
5St Mirren33127143843-543
6Dundee331011124454-1041
7Hibernian33912124451-739
8Motherwell33813124651-537
9Aberdeen33811143549-1435
10St Johnstone33710162446-2231
11Ross County3379173256-2430
12Livingston3339212259-3718
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