United defender Will Ferry says his side are embarrassed after their loss at Easter Road, but will bounce back as they look to secure European football. 

A lacklustre first-half left the side struggling to overcame a side with just one league in eighteen up until that point, with the defender visibly frustrated after the 3-1 defeat.

“Honestly, it’s really frustrating. I don’t want to come in here and give you a rubbish interview, (0:19) but it’s a hard one to take,” said Ferry.

“We’ll obviously watch it back, but the first feeling is they are really bad goals and we can’t really hide from that. Even the third one was awful as well. It’s disappointing and we’ll just look to correct it.”

As the side struggles to maintain their freshness after forty-two games and a squad lacking the depth of their rivals Hibs and Aberdeen.

The opening twenty games saw last season’s Championship winners lose just four games but that has risen to nine in the following fifteen.

However the summer signing from Cheltenham said the club must move on swiftly if they are to stay in the race for Europe, with St Mirren their next opponent.

“We’re not going to ponder on it.  I don’t want to sit here and sulk like a kid. Obviously, you lose games, but it’s the manner we did it,” he said before adding “so, we’ve just got to go and put it right. We can only focus on ourselves, we can’t worry too much about what’s happened now.”