St Johnstone manager Tommy Wright believes bringing in Tony Watt is a match made in heaven for both parties.
Wright praised his striker after his two goals helped put St Johnstone into the last eight of the Betfred Cup after beating Queen of the South 4-2 after extra-time at Palmerston.
Wright said: "I brought Tony in to score goals.
"He's happy, working hard and he will get better in terms of match fitness. That's not a criticism of him it's a fact he's not played a lot of competitive football over the last 14 months.
"He's here to score goals and if he'd taken the career path that people think he should've taken he'd have been nowhere near St Johnstone.
"But I think we're fortunate to have him, I think he's also fortunate to have us and at the minute it's working really well for him."
Watt is looking for a career revival and has started well for the McDiarmuid Park outfit.
Watt put St Johnstone in front after 26 minutes, turning in Murray Davidson's initial shot from close range.
But Queens fought back to level terms on the stroke of half time when Lyndon Dykes scored a brilliant half volley from 25 yards out.
Both sides came close to taking the lead in the second half when Saints' Drey Wright and Queens' Andy Stirling hit the woodwork.
In extra time, Watt played Wright in to put Saints ahead before Watt seemingly sealed the tie just before the end of the first half.
However Stephen Dobbie scored from the penalty spot with five minutes to go to put pressure on the Premiership side but Callum Hendry scored an easy goal right at the end of additional time.
Up next for St Johnstone is struggling Dundee while Queens now turn their focus to Falkirk next week.
Queens boss Gary Naysmith said: "I thought we were on the front foot, I thought we responded in the right manner to going a goal behind and we deservedly got level.
"The players were great and typified what I was wanting. They were really good. We had a really good second half performance against Dundee United, a good 90 minutes against St Johnstone and we need to move that level of performance onto the Falkirk game."
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