Dunfermline boss Jim Jefferies has urged his side to be more ruthless in front of goal after they passed up another chance to go top of League One at the weekend.
With league leaders Forfar going down to defeat at Morton, a victory for the Pars at Peterhead would have been enough to see them reclaim pole position and it looked for all of 88 minutes that Jefferies men would indeed return to the summit.
But Jefferies was left to bemoan the loss of a late equaliser which cost his team two points and top spot.
“We needed to get that second goal but we tried to walk the ball into the net,” he said. “If you don’t score that second goal you can sometimes get punished.
“That is what can happen in a game where you are so far in front but don’t kill them off or get a second goal. You pay the penalty and that is what we did.
“We have nobody to blame but ourselves. We played well enough, had enough possession and created enough chances.
“But I thought three or four times in the second half alone we were trying to walk it into the net trying to be too precise.
“We have got to start taking these chances because there was a lot of good build up play and a lot of good movement and passing.
“But the one golden chance they were battling to get to try and get a draw out of it, they got it.”
For all their first-half domination, Jefferies felt his team should have been out of sight up at Balmoor at the weekend.
“We still had plenty of chances to afford to give them a goal three minutes from the end because by that time we should have been two possibly three in front,” he conceded.
“If you do not kill teams off when games are at 1-0 it just takes a split second to score a goal and Peterhead got it.”