Kilmarnock boss Allan Johnston was pleased with the performance of his side in the 2-1 victory over Ross County at Global Energy Stadium. The winning goals were from Josh Magennis and Tope Obadevi, and a nervy finish from Liam Boyce.

Johnston said that his side controlled large chunks of the game and perhaps it was only in the last five or 10 minutes that they came into after the goal.

"Other than that, I thought we were totally in control and unlucky not to score a few more.

"That's four points away from home. It was important we started the season well.

"We had a hard game against Aberdeen in midweek and put in another good performance. Aberdeen's quality showed in the end with clinical finishing.

"But we can take a lot of heart from the performance today.

"We've got more to come. That was Michael Ngoo's first match. He has hardly played in pre-season but he was excellent, a handful. You can see he is going to be a big player for us this year.

"For me, young Craig Slater stole the show with some of his passing. With the range of passing he showed today you can see he is not going to be here with Kilmarnock for very long.

"You've got to be concerned we might lose him. You look at his free-kick against Dundee.

"Last year, I was saying the same - he is a top young player. Hopefully not before the window shuts."

Derek Adams, on one side, regrets that he missed chances early on which frustrated the County boss as well. Earlier in the game, County started with lackluster and had a very poor defending strategy.

Adams said: "We might have scored before they did - but that's been the story of our season so far.

"We've had good chances to score and controlled the first 35 minutes when I felt we were the better side.

"But we never scored in that time and then they scored a goal I felt we probably should have stopped. For the second one as well, we could have stopped it."