Myles Hippolyte made his debut for St Mirren in Saturday's 4-1 defeat at Livingston, when he came on as a substitute for Cammy Smith on 64 minutes.
Speaking to Buddievision, Hippolyte reflected on the team's performance, but admitted the right team won in the end.
It was a scrappy game," he said.
"Everyone witnessed it today what type of game they play, it's quite physical, a lot of long balls. But they deserved to win, they took their chances and they got the result.
"We thought the game was going to be a flurry of goals as well; scoring so early you expect more to come after that."
Hippolyte signed for St Mirren on transfer deadline day, but has suffered injury woes over the last few weeks. Saturday was the Englishman's first chance at some game time with his new club.
I've only been back in training for a week now. The first week has been good with the boys, I've enjoyed it, everything has been going well. Now to have a run out on the pitch.
"I was hoping my chance went in, but hopefully I get more time and I can help the team a bit more. Hopefully I get more minutes of training under my belt and then try and fight a way into the team."
Hippolyte's Saints' career almost got off to a perfect start as he was so close to scoring a debut goal which would have made the score 3-2 with 15 minutes left.
However, despite beating Neil Alexander in the Livingston goal, the ball was just cleared off the line by the Livingston defence.
Someone took a shot and I just anticipated it coming in, took it on the chest, and as I've turned and hit it's gone under the keeper's legs. I've just seen a blue boot - it happens to hit his boot and he's cleared it.
"You know, chances like that you just need a bit of luck. Then maybe the game would have changed around and we could have probably been pushing them back even more to get another goal. It was an open game and they took their chances and got the right result."
It wasn't the result Hippolyte had hoped for on his first appearance for the club, but he knows it is imperative for the side to bounce back with a win next week when the team take on Brechin City at the Paisley 2021 Stadium.
He also had praise for the 1700 plus fans who made the trip through to West Lothian.
It'll be important to us, we want to win every game and since I've been here everyone is pushing in the right direction and everyone's eager to get results and that's exactly what we want to do in the next two games. Especially with them being at home, we have the advantage. Hopefully it can work in our favour and the fans will get behind us as well, like they were today - they were superb today.
"It was a big turnout, first I've seen of a great turnout from St Mirren since being here - it was impressive. I appreciate the fans as well, hopefully we'll have the same turnout at home games and hopefully we'll do everything right.
"Sometimes that can affect players even more. I've witnessed it when the opposition have been scared of the crowd being on top of them, so it's something that benefits us, and hopefully we can carry on doing the same thing; get results over the next two games and hopefully impress them and leave ourselves chuffed as well."
