Jim Goodwin insists the league is St Mirren's "bread and butter"

Saints lost to Livingston in the semi-finals.

PA | 25 January 2021

St Mirren manager Jim Goodwin has urged his players to get over their Hampden blow and push for the top six.

Saints have a swift chance to bounce back from Sunday's 1-0 defeat by Livingston in the Betfred Cup semi-finals.

The Paisley side can move within two points of sixth-placed Dundee United – with three games in hand – when they travel to Tannadice for a Scottish Premiership encounter on Wednesday.

Goodwin said: "As a club we want to go far in cup competitions all the time but the league is our bread and butter. That is the most important thing every season before a ball is kicked.

"We want to become a top-half team, and we are in and around that area of the table at the moment, but there's a hell of a lot of football to be played.

"The guys need to pick themselves up because we have a huge game on Wednesday and the league campaign now is where all of our efforts and all of our focus go."

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Premier League Table

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	PTS
Championship Group
C	Celtic	4	4	0	0	92	28	64	90
2	Rangers Rangers	4	3	0	1	84	29	55	84
3	Hearts	4	1	2	1	51	39	12	67
4	Kilmarnock	4	1	1	2	45	43	2	55
5	St Mirren	4	1	1	2	44	49	-5	47
6	Dundee	4	0	0	4	48	67	-19	41
Relegation Group
1	Aberdeen	4	4	0	0	46	50	-4	47
2	Hibernian	4	2	0	2	51	58	-7	45
3	Motherwell	4	2	0	2	55	57	-2	43
4	Ross County	4	1	1	2	36	65	-29	34
5	St Johnstone	4	0	1	3	27	53	-26	32
R	Livingston	4	2	0	2	28	69	-41	24

First Phase
C	Celtic	33	24	6	3	80	26	54	78
2	Rangers Rangers	33	24	3	6	72	23	49	75
3	Hearts	33	19	5	9	46	34	12	62
4	Kilmarnock	33	13	12	8	43	34	9	51
5	St Mirren	33	12	7	14	38	43	-5	43
6	Dundee	33	10	11	12	44	54	-10	41
7	Hibernian	33	9	12	12	44	51	-7	39
8	Motherwell	33	8	13	12	46	51	-5	37
9	Aberdeen	33	8	11	14	35	49	-14	35
10	St Johnstone	33	7	10	16	24	46	-22	31
11	Ross County	33	7	9	17	32	56	-24	30
R	Livingston	33	3	9	21	22	59	-37	18