Queen of the South boss calls on side to develop winning habit ahead of Dumbarton clash

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Manager Peter Murphy wants Queens to develop a winning habit – starting against Dumbarton in their latest Premier Sport League Cup group clash tonight.They were beaten 3-0 at home by Aberdeen in Murphy’s dugout debut for the Doonhamers and now it’s The Sons who come to town for this evening’s encounter.Murphy said: “Aberdeen was a really good test and there were some real positives from my point of view.

But we need to start winning games and building confidence and winning games becoming a habit.“We had to defend a hell of a lot against Aberdeen, which let us see how we worked in those relationships, and how players trusted each other with the ball, which I thought was excellent.“We’re now looking at how we do when we’re attacking and pinning teams in and causing them problems.“That’s what I’ll be looking for and obviously I want to win games, but the main thing we’re looking at is building for the league season.”The opening game of the season was a tough one for Murphy’s men against a Premiership side eager to impress their new manager Jimmy Thelin in his first competitive game in charge.The Dons stormed out the blocks and were 3-0 up in 36 minutes with a double from Slovenian striker Ester Sokler plus a wonder goal from Graeme Shinnie.Murphy said: “I took loads of positives from the game.

Obviously when you go 1-0 down within five minutes it makes it very difficult against one of the top five sides in the country and I think we paid the price for that start.“They started really fast, and we probably didn’t recognize that a Premiership team were going to be as fast as they were.“I was looking to learn about the relationships between players and about how the team worked, and I thought the team worked really well and,