Robinson keen to continue St Mirren momentum

Stephen Robinson aims to keep St Mirren's "positivity" building with victory at Kilmarnock.

The Saints have gone five matches unbeaten and can put nine points between themselves and 11th-placed Killie by winning on Wednesday night.

"We're five unbeaten now, we've had a brilliant result against Hearts, we found a way to win against Airdrie, one of the hardest ties in the round," said Robinson.

"We go there believing that we can win, believing that we can get a result.

"We've won three out of the last five and progressed in cup competitions. Previously, we couldn't buy a win before, although we were playing really well.

"We haven't quite hit the heights of that yet, but we've ground results out. We've managed to win games. We've been defending well when we need to.

"Without being right at the very top of our game, we've managed to go on that run, five games unbeaten. We want to continue that. We want to keep that positivity going.

"We're in a quarter-final of a cup and, you look at the bigger picture, there's players coming back which will make us stronger. So we go into the game very positive."

Although Robinson is getting some players back, winger Malik Dijksteel looks set for a lay-off with the groin injury he suffered at Airdrie.

"We're waiting on scan results for him," Robinson said. "It doesn't look good, probably even a little bit worse than we thought. We feel he's got some sort of tear in there."