Jimmy Thelin demands Aberdeen USE their anger as boss swerves the ref blame game to point finger at his stars

Jimmy Thelin refused to point the finger of blame at referee John Beaton for not giving Aberdeen a foul before Dundee United went up the park to net the stoppage time winner.

The Dons support and midfielder Dante Polvara were left angered when the American went down under a challenge from Kai Fotheringham but the official waved play on. United went up the park and in the second phase they managed to net through Kevin Holt and Thelin was more disappointed with his team for not seeing the game out.

Thelin said: “I don’t think we should think about these kinds of things. The game is over and they play and so for me, they scored from the throw-in. They are doing really well in that place down the United. They've done this the whole season, they're really strong in this part of the game. So I don't think about what happened and if we should have this and that. For me it doesn't matter right now.”

Aberdeen are now eight games without a win although the positive for Thelin was a much-improved performance. He reckons if his team keeps building on that then results will turn. He admitted: “It's not easy when you get a goal against you in the last situation of the game and you lose it.

“There are a lot of emotions at that moment. But I have to try to look at the last part of the season. Now when we have a run of no victories and also the last game maybe the game before that the performance-wise was not so good. But the way we competed today, we played close to each other on the pitch, helping each other better, taking the challenge in a better way, was a big step for us performance-wise.

“I guess you can recognise in the early part of the season how we want to look. Now we have to try to build from this platform and look