Controlling games from midfield has been a fatal flaw of Aberdeen’s all season. <\/p>\n
Their inability to dictate from the middle of the pitch has impacted their creativity, which is why they are one of the lowest scorers in the division.<\/p>\n
Continuing the baby steps made in defence while adding more from middle to front is next on Robinson’s list.<\/p>\n
“Can we better on the ball? Of course we can. We can be more composed, take more touches and create more chances. <\/p>\n
“But overall we created more chances, we allowed Killie to have the ball in certain areas, pressed them well and took the ball off them at times.<\/p>\n
“I’m really proud of how they conducted themselves today, how they played, the energy, aggression, organisation – that’s the basics.<\/p>\n
“That’s what hasn’t been done for a long time here. We have to build on that. The nervousness will calm down hopefully and we’ll add to that.”<\/p>\n
Improving will not just be a matter of coaching. Twenty players have been signed by Aberdeen since last summer and some did not even see out the season.<\/p>\n
None of them could be called a roaring success.<\/p>\n
In a different environment next season, they might improve, but Robinson and sporting director Lutz Pfannenstiel have a big job on their hands this summer to reshape the squad.<\/p>\n
The club have already talked about pivoting to signing more players with experience of Scottish football.<\/p>\n
But whatever the plan they can start to execute with the reassurance of – in all likelihood – being in the Premiership next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Controlling games from midfield has been a fatal flaw of Aberdeen’s all season. Their inability to dictate from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-551264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551264","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=551264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}