Partick Thistle centre half and Livingston left back Daniel O’Reilly and Robbie Fraser both have the belief that their sides have what it takes to be playing Premiership football next season.
Livingston hold all the aces going into tonight’s second leg, as they host a Thistle side that they defeated at Firhill 2-0 in the first leg of the playoff semi-final, but Irish centre back O’Reilly believes the tie is far from over just yet.
“We’ve just got to dig in, you know, we’ve got a really good group, and we’ve just got to stick together and keep fighting and like I said, we’re still obviously in the tie and this is where we want to be so we have just got to keep going.
“We beat them [Livingston] there two weeks ago. Obviously it will be different now, we need to score two, We need to throw everything at them, we need to get that first goal and we will have a big backing from our fans as always which will obviously help. We just need to go for it then and hopefully we can get that goal and the the pressure is on them.
“If you look at it,it’s like a game. It is halftime really. So there is 90 minutes, they have scored two today so there is no reason why we can’t [do the same]”.
It is a different sort of challenge for Robbie Fraser and his Livingston teammates, who have the ominous challenge of defending a 2 goal advantage against a side who won at their ground on the final day of the league campaign, but Fraser spoke full of belief for his teammates as they bid for an immediate bounce back up to Scotland’s top flight,
“We have good players, and we all believe in each other, and their the reasons we get results. You know we have been pretty consistent throughout and we showed tonight that we are all good performers.
“I felt we should have had a couple more goals, but that is football. And even then, they [Thistle] could have a couple of goals as well so two goals, and a clean sheet is a nice one, trust me.”
When asked if Livingston possess the quality to get promoted to the Premiership, Fraser said:
“Absolutely. I believe in every single member in that changing room.The staff believe in us, which is important as well, so whoever is on the pitch, they can do a job and as shown where we finished in the table, we took it to the last day because we were really consistent.”