If Aberdeen aren’t cautious they may shortly discover their unbroken top-flight standing below severe menace.
Saturday’s newest Premiership loss, towards Dundee on Saturday, was a head scratcher.
The Dons began the sport nicely, scoring the opener throughout a interval of actual dominance but it surely unravelled dramatically as they invited stress that in the end led to their fourth purple card in 5 matches and defeat.
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Ethan Hamilton’s profitable objective was probably the greatest strikes seen at Pittodrie in current reminiscence.
Despite maintaining a clear sheet towards high-flying Motherwell within the Scottish Cup in midweek, interim boss Peter Leven took academy graduate Jack Milne out of the facet and changed him with loanee Liam Morrison, who has seemed uncomfortable in his outings thus far.
If anybody does not assume Aberdeen might be dragged right into a combat to keep away from the relegation play-off place then they have not been taking note of their league type since November 2024.
Kilmarnock in eleventh nudged a degree nearer to them on the weekend with that hole now right down to seven factors.
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Since Jimmy Thelin’s first defeat as Dons’ boss that month at St Mirren, they’ve performed 52 Premiership matches and have received simply 13 of them, solely maintaining 11 clear sheets in that point.
At Pittodrie they’ve received 4 league video games and throughout all competitions they’ve solely received 11 of their previous 34 house matches. This can be enjoying out amid the backdrop of upper spending than ever earlier than within the switch market.
They now face back-to-back matches at Tannadice and Tynecastle having misplaced their previous seven away video games for the primary time because the 1959-60 season once they misplaced eight on the spin.
Even the perimeters below Alex Miller, Ebbe Skovdahl, Steve Paterson and Mark McGhee did not string collectively a run as ignominious as this one on the street.
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Anyone who stays to be satisfied that Aberdeen aren’t immune from the eleventh positioned roulette ought to forged their minds again to 2014 when a Hibs facet, with 4 factors greater than the Dons presently have after 26 matches and a place higher off, dropped like a stone and had been in the end relegated by Hamilton Academical in a play-off shoot-out.
It is sort of two months since Thelin misplaced his job with the membership two factors off the highest six. That hole is now 11 and they’re now nearer to bother than these sunlit uplands.
It feels as if this patched-up Aberdeen staff want management shortly or this marketing campaign might tail-spin, if it is not doing so already.