Dundee Utd 2 – 0 Aberdeen

Dundee United went to third place in the Scottish Première and made major pressure on the manager of Aberdeen Jimmy Thelin with a 2-0 victory against donations to Tannadice.

The goals on each side of the half-time of Ivan Dolcek and Bert Esselink left Aberdeen rooted at the bottom of the tableless table in five games.

Thelin had demanded that his team interpret the fundamental principles of football after the defeat of the Saturday League Cup by Motherwell, but they were finally defeated by two aerial bullets and could have conceded more than United was moving over Hibernian in the table.

Stuart Armstrong struck the visit mark and Jesper Karlsson forced two stops, but there was no sustained threat from Thelin when they suffered a sixth defeat in nine games this season.

Aberdeen has now won only five of their last 32 championship games and Thelin may well be short of credit with the donation board of directors after the triumph of the club Scottish Cup in May. United Fans certainly thought it when they were chanting “dismissed in the morning”.

Fans of Aberdeen filled the “delivery” end to Tannadice and gave their team a major support for the first half while clinging to brief signs of resurgence in the second period.

But some fans have evacuated their anger after the break and the board of directors of Aberdeen will probably head in crisis talks before Saturday's trip to Motherwell.

Thelin made three changes in the midfield with Captain Graeme Shinnie among those who fell on the bench, but United started on the front foot and Will Ferry was close to converting the balloon of Zac Sapsford on the face of the goal.

Karlsson sent a free header and forced a backup, but most of the first half's pressure was at the other end. Dimitar Mitov has saved the deviated effort of Sapsford and Esselink spread in a corner.

Mitov saved only one from a dolcek after Sapsford brilliantly made his strike partner on the break, although the Australian received a yellow and penalized card for a fault on Sivert Nilsen after referee Steven McLean delayed his decision.

The first match arrived in the 45th minute while Dolcek pulled its fifth goal from the Première season in the lower corner from 18 meters after a head fell on its way.

Nicolas Milanovic largely curled up while Bedeen was trying to fight in the second half, but they were two down in five minutes when the unmarked Esselink returned to his home six meters after Vicko Sevelj had turned in a corner.

The game threatened to move away more from the scope of Aberdeen. Mitov has talked about Dolcek, Krisztian Keresztes fired in the side net from 20 meters, several blocks prevented United from hitting the target in a sustained pressure and sevelj shooting period just in the long term.

There were signs of a rally while Armstrong hit the crossbar at 25 meters and Yevhenii Kucherenko denied Karlsson with his feet of the rebound.

But Aberdeen could not seriously threaten to break their Duck from Prime Minister and Thelin and his players got up and questioned the scene of a half -empty stand displaying their anger after the final whistle.

Thelin: We have nothing to lose

After the defeat, Thelin said they could not fall below and told his players that they had “nothing to lose” when they went to Motherwell on Saturday, seven days after being eliminated from the first Steelmen sports cup.

After facing the anger of the fans visiting the match, Thelin said: “We feel the same thing, we feel anger, we feel frustration. But the only way to solve this problem is to intensify and do a lot, a lot, much better on Saturday.

“You can't hide.” Towards the end, some players came out and showed more. We start to create more, but at the beginning, we were quite rigid in a team.

“You see Stuart Armstrong, he plays with experience, he wants the ball. When a pass is missing, he takes the ball and finds his composure as a player.

“On Saturday, we have nothing to lose, we have everything to gain and we must have this feeling as a team. Because at the moment, we play a little too steep because of the pressure around us.

“Now we are the last in the table, we have a point, zero goals, so you have nothing to lose. You have to go out on the field and play a lot, much more without this tension.

“Fans, we are not meeting expectations at the moment, so we are already there, Rock Bottom. The only thing we can do is do better, so we cannot go further now, we have to get better and that's why you can hope for this tension from your body.”

When the fans' reaction, he added: “When you see the emotions, you see anger, you see frustration, of course, that hurts you.

“But the only thing to make something is to make a better performance. As a manager and as a team, our job is to smile on the faces of the fans.”

Goodwin praises “great resilience”

The manager of United, Jim Goodwin, faced this same anger two and a half years ago before being dismissed by the donations and he admitted that he feared that the fortune of his former club turns to Tannadice.

“I know what the man is going through and I sympathize with any manager in this situation,” he said.

“We all talk about Hibs and David Gray last year when they were low. David found a way to get out of the team.

“Aberdeen has invested well, they spent a fortune in summer, and that is why I was a little nervous to come in this game because the race cannot continue the quality they have.

“We were a little hidden from nothing, but I'm sure Jimmy will respect my concern is not Aberdeen.”

Goodwin, whose team went third, added: “The consistency in the 11 was important, but it was probably the most comfortable that we felt for several weeks.

“In the last 10 minutes, we become deeper and naturally nervous, Aberdeen launched each attack option, but the guys showed great resilience.”

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