Craig Samson says keeping his 40th clean sheet for St Mirren in Saturday's win over Brechin City was a nice personal accolade, but admits all focus remains on the team achieving their targets this season.
Saturday's clean sheet was Samson's fourth of 2018, 11th of the season and 40th overall for Saints.
But with 10 important games left this season starting this Friday against Dundee United, Samson says the most important thing is the team.
The Buddies are currently 17 points clear of United heading into this weekend's match though The Terrors have three games in hand.
It's a big match for both sides and one Samson says will be be good for all involved.
Speaking after Saturday's win over Brechin, Samson said: "It was important to keep the wee run of clean sheets going.
We have been good with them in this quarter despite losing quite heavily to Livingston. In terms of games I think we have had five in this quarter so far. I wasn't aware that was 40 I had for St Mirren but it's a nice little achievement. It's more about the end goal of this season and what we can achieve as a team.
"We know where we are at the moment. We know that teams are chasing us but it's a game at a time. The more games that we win then the harder it is for teams to catch us. If we just keep going the way we've been going then we'll be fine.
"Livingston are on a great run at the moment, Morton are on a great run at the moment but we've only lost two games since December and that's a massive achievement for the football club. If we take care of our own business then we can finish the job off but there's a long way to go. Friday night is a massive game. We know how good Dundee United can be. We are going into the game trying to get all three points.
"It's a good one for everyone involved," he continued. "It's a good one for the fans, the players, the staff, everybody. But I think at the moment they are all good ones.
"If you look at the crowd we had on Saturday it was fantastic. It was Brechin at home and there was over 4000 people there which is really really good.
"The club is galvanised and no matter whether it is Dundee United or anyone else we are going into games in a positive state of mind. Dundee United will hopefully take care of itself when we go up there. We know what is at stake, they know what is at stake and it should be a good match for everyone to watch."
Saints got back to winning ways on Saturday with the 1-0 win over Brechin after defeat away to Livingston the previous week.
Some in the press had questioned The Buddies' performance but Samson disagrees with that assessment.
I read a couple of things from different media outlets at the weekend saying that we stuttered over the line against Brechin at the weekend," he said.
"Brechin are a side that are probably deserving of results they not had this season. We've only beaten them 2-1, 2-1 and 1-0. It's not as if at the beginning of the season we gave them a spanking 5 or 6-0.
"We took the game very seriously on Saturday and knew it was going to be very tricky. 1-0 is a good result and it's three points. If we keep ticking off three points off it doesn't matter whether you are getting three points against Brechin, whether you are getting three points against Falkirk, Dundee United, Livingston etc. they all just count the same. If we can go and keep winning matches then we know what we can achieve.
"I think the first 20 minutes of the game we were very dominant in the match and we could have been a few goals up. But credit to Brechin, they hung in there at that point it stayed at 1-0 and they knew if they could get to 1-0 at half time they'd have an opportunity in the game. They came and gave a good show of themselves.
"Whether we were at our best or not, they did very well and they deserve credit for the way they played. We won the match 1-0, we've came away happy, we've won the game and we move on to Friday night."
