Aberdeen manager Jimmy Thelin acknowledges the team's struggles and their need to improve performance.
Jimmy Thelin has acknowledged the responsibility for Aberdeen 's poor performance but maintains his confidence in turning their fortunes around. The Dons suffered another setback with a 2-1 home defeat to Ross County. The team's form has been dismal, accumulating only three points from 27 and plummeting down the table.
Thelin, preparing for Sunday's match against Motherwell, stated: 'It's always a challenge, but you have to stay humble when things are going well and you also need to stay humble when things are going bad. You can't lose track of what you want to build even if you get emotional. For me, the most important thing that I have to focus on is trying to build a stronger and stronger team, and that's what we're trying to do, and the players are trying, but right now we don't get the performance and we're dropping too much sometimes in the game, and it hurts. I think we need to be calm and put the standards higher because we know that the fans today at home, they want more from us in this game, and I understand that. Everybody understands in the dressing room, me, my staff, my players, so we have to do better because still the fans are here pushing us, but we have to do better performance-wise to deserve the results and right now, 90 minutes, we don't deserve it. We have to do more, and that's the only way we can do it.' Thelin admitted to a lack of consistency in recent performances. He added: 'I'm always trying to avoid the word confidence,
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