Livingston manager Marvin Bartley told BBC Scotland: “When you play games of football and you cost yourself with two goals in the first half, maybe people will say you don’t deserve anything.
"In the second half we got a massive reaction from the players but I told them we shot ourselves in the foot twice with the goals we conceded and we need to eradicate that if we're to have a chance of staying in this league.
"At half time I told them that at 2-0 down there's two ways you can look at it. You can say 'That's us done' or you can show a reaction with a bit of fight and a bit of spirit.
"We changed the shape slightly as well to try and get a bit of pressure on the top end. I said to go and run themselves into the ground and we'll use our substitutes if we have to.
"I need to watch it back because the things that stick in my mind are the two goals we conceded. The players have taken in a lot of information from the staff in the last couple of days and were told to go over that line and do everything to the best of their ability.
"They're disappointed. There were a lot of heads down at half time but we had to pick spirits up to have a go in the second half, which they did.
"We need to take care of the things we can control and for me we didn't do that today.
"It's one game. There will be a lot of learning from that.,
"We've got a massive game at Celtic Park, and all games are massive for us now, but we'll look back on that with the staff, tell the players what they did well, what we didn't do so well, and improve."
