Relegation-threatened Aberdeen’s alarming decline continued as they slumped to another abject Scottish Premiership defeat at rejuvenated St Mirren on Stephen Robinson’s return to Paisley.<\/p>\n
Jonah Ayunga’s low driven effort, the striker’s first goal since his League Cup final double in December, opened the scoring on a sobering afternoon for the Dons, who are now level on points with St Mirren and remain just three above Kilmarnock in the dreaded 11th-placed play-off spot.<\/p>\n
And the away side, who have now won just one of their past 16 league matches, were eventually punished for dismal set-play defending when Alex Gogic powered in a header from a Scott Tanser corner late on.<\/p>\n
Robinson, who is now winless in three games in charge of Aberdeen after departing St Mirren last month, did not hold back after his team were thrashed at Rangers a fortnight ago but failed to get a reaction from his players.<\/p>\n
The Dons have struggled to deal with cross balls all season and that could have been responsible for them being four down at the break, with Liam Donnelly seeing a header tipped over before nodding off the bar.<\/p>\n
Miguel Freckleton could only plant a close-range header of his own wide from another Declan John corner, then Donnelly got caught in two minds between going for goal or teeing up a team-mate after a deep free-kick.<\/p>\n
Aberdeen lifted their level after Ayunga’s first-half strike produced the goal Craig McLeish’s St Mirren merited, but Robinson’s men still finished the contest without a shot on target after having about 40% of the ball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Relegation-threatened Aberdeen’s alarming decline continued as they slumped to another abject Scottish Premiership defeat at rejuvenated St Mirren…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-512880","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\/512880","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=512880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}