Brian Graham scored his second goal of the season on Saturday but was more pleased with the performance of 10-man Raith Rovers.
Raith travelled to Almondvale, where Livingston have not lost in 19 months, looking for a response to last week’s poor performance in the home defeat to Ross County.
And Graham believes the team produced one, despite playing most of the match with 10 men following defender Dougie Hill’s 18th-minute red card.
Graham said: ”It’s a great response from last Saturday and we need to keep that going. We showed good character because last week was not good enough.
”Even before Dougie was sent off we were right on top of the game and maybe if we’d kept 11 players on the park we might have won.
”We’ve shown at places like Hamilton and Livingston that there’s nothing to be scared of in this league, but we need to get three points instead of one.”
Hill was shown a red card by referee Willie Collum, despite appearing to win the ball in a studs-up challenge with Kyle Jacobs.
Livingston had failed to get going in the first half, but upped the tempo at the start of the second, forcing David McGurn into three early saves.
Rovers weathered the storm and almost took the lead on 57 minutes when Allan Walker sliced wide from close range, but the 10 men went ahead on the hour with a brilliant team move started and finished by Graham.
The striker collected the ball in his own half before switching play to right-back Reece Donaldson, who played a one-two with John Baird. When he sent over a cross, Walker’s knock-down was met by Graham, who had made up 70 yards to sweep the ball home with his left foot.
Graham said: ”From a team point of view it was a great goal and it’s got to be up there as one of my best ever.”
Raith’s lead lasted just six minutes as Marc McNulty scored with his first touch after coming on as a sub, pouncing on a ricochet in the box to fire into the net via the underside of the bar.
Raith boss John McGlynn was delighted with his side’s showing and he had no complaints with Hill’s red card.
”In the modern-day game it’s a sending off,” he said. ”I was happy with the character we showed thereafter. We’ve dropped our standards but we were back on the button today.”