Brooklyn Kabongolo scored for the second game running as Livingston fought back to earn a point in a 1-1 draw with fellow William Hill Premiership strugglers St Mirren.<\/p>\n
The Lions defender, who scored a stunning volley in last weekend\u2019s 2-2 stalemate with Rangers, headed in a second-half equaliser to cancel out Dan Nlundulu\u2019s goal for the visitors just before the break.<\/p>\n
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It was a result that suited Saints more than Livingston with Stephen Robinson\u2019s side maintaining the 10-point gap over the basement side.<\/p>\n
Livingston\u2019s position at the basement looks increasingly more desperate with every passing week as they continue their search for a first league win since August.<\/p>\n
Following last weekend\u2019s 5-0 collapse at the hands of Motherwell, St Mirren manager Robinson made six changes for the trip to West Lothian.<\/p>\n
Marcus Fraser, Jayden Richardson, Keanu Baccus, Scott Tanser, Nlundulu and Mikael Mandron were all restored to the starting XI.<\/p>\n
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And it was Richardson who came close to giving the visitors the lead after just six minutes. The wing-back got on the end of Tanser\u2019s delivery and his looping header hit the top of the cross bar.<\/p>\n
In a lively first half, chances came at both ends of the pitch.<\/p>\n
Mandron swept a left-footed shot from distance just over after the Lions got caught trying to play out before Livingston striker Robbie Muirhead drove an effort wide from inside the area.<\/p>\n
Both of these teams have struggled for goals this term so it was no surprise that they were wasteful in the final third.<\/p>\n
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The same theme continued when Scott Pittman whipped a first-time shot wide from 15 yards in what was a promising position after being teed up by Liam Smith.<\/p>\n
St Mirren goalkeeper Shamal George was then called upon to repel a stinging Smith drive after Alex Gogic made a mess of trying to head the ball back.<\/p>\n
But it was the away team that stormed ahead a minute before the break through Nlundulu.<\/p>\n
The striker was involved in the build up and was accused of handling the ball after falling to the ground just outside the box.<\/p>\n
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Saints recycled the ball and Richardson played in Mandron down the side of the area and his cross was headed back across goal by the striker.<\/p>\n
It was a familiar feeling for Livingston as the second half restarted although the home team should have drawn level through Muirhead.<\/p>\n
The striker found himself in space from a Macaulay Tait pass but his right-footed shot from an angle was pushed behind by George.<\/p>\n
The second period was not so open with the battle becoming more confined to the middle of the pitch.<\/p>\n
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Livingston kept fighting and their perseverance paid off in the 76th minute with another goal from Kabongolo.<\/p>\n
Substitute Barrie McKay swept a deep cross into the area the unmarked Kabongolo showed great composure to direct his header into the corner of the net from 10 yards.<\/p>\n
Fellow substitute Joel Nouble then headed a McKay corner over from close range in what was the last meaningful chance of the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Kabongolo scored for the second game running as Livingston fought back to earn a point in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[62327,98,100,62315,99,62320,62316,62328,62321,47894,62325,62326,62317,9,24,63,62322,62324,62319,62323,62314,62318],"class_list":["post-148503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-barrie-mckay","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-kabongolo","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-dan-nlundulu","tag-jayden-richardson","tag-joel-nouble","tag-keanu-baccus","tag-livingston","tag-macaulay-tait","tag-marcus-fraser","tag-mikael-mandron","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-robbie-muirhead","tag-scott-pittman","tag-scott-tanser","tag-shamal-george","tag-st-mirren","tag-stephen-robinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}