“I’m so pleased with the performance,” manager Thelin told BBC Scotland. “The players put in so much hard work in training, and in other games, and didn’t get the results or goals.<\/p>\n
“We saw some signs against Shakhtar on Thursday night, and also the connection between the fans and the team growing. The energy was back.<\/p>\n
“Today, we started the game really well and the connection with the fans was there. They saw the players’ effort. That’s how we grow stronger.<\/p>\n
“We still have things to improve, but we are growing week by week.”<\/p>\n
Throughout the poor run Aberdeen have been on – five wins in 33 league outings before this weekend – Thelin has been fairly resolute in the face of growing pressure.<\/p>\n
There was a growing feeling the Scottish Cup win over Celtic papered over the cracks of a team that have struggled this calendar year, but the victory over Dundee was a return to the side that lay waste to the Premiership at the start of last season.<\/p>\n
The Dons registered their most shots (20), passes (574) and xG (2.92) of the season so far and displayed an attacking verve that has been lacking. <\/p>\n
“The connections in the team are growing,” Thelin added. “It was important to have a clean sheet today and be front-footed. We pushed for a victory against Motherwell, and against Shakhtar.<\/p>\n
“We have to keep this energy. It’s important that when you represent Aberdeen you show this energy. The front-foot approach is there. We have to keep pushing.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“I’m so pleased with the performance,” manager Thelin told BBC Scotland. “The players put in so much hard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-180951","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}