Aberdeen’s wretched Scottish Premiership kind continued unabated because the Dons fell to their ninth defeat within the final 13 league matches in opposition to a scientific St Mirren facet.
The house facet had been the higher for many of the sport, however poor defending from Slobodan Rubezic value them two first-half targets, Toyosi Olusanya scoring the primary and organising the second for Mikael Mandron. Mandron added a 3rd late within the sport to safe the 3-0 win.
Mikael Mandron (L) and Toyosi Olusanya did the harm for St Mirren at Aberdeen
The Dons, who did choose up a morale-boosting Scottish Cup win in opposition to Elgin Metropolis final week, made 5 modifications from that facet.
The guests, themselves having misplaced the final 4 within the league, handed a primary begin to Callum Penman for one in all two modifications from the group which beat Queen of the South.
The Buddies had been forward after simply seven minutes as Ross Doohan got here to the sting of his space to fulfill Richard Taylor’s lengthy ball, however Rubezic headed the ball previous the oncoming goalkeeper and Olusanya picked up the unfastened ball to slip dwelling from shut vary.
Olusanya celebrates after scoring to make it 1-0
Aberdeen reacted effectively and Pape Habib Gueye, on his first begin after 4 months out by means of damage, was denied from point-blank vary by Zach Hemming after good work on the left by Jeppe Okkels.
Okkels himself was denied by Hemming earlier than Topi Keskinen noticed a low shot blocked by the hand of Richard Taylor, prompting a VAR assessment for handball which finally determined in opposition to a penalty.
Debutant Penman was pressured off by means of damage 10 minutes earlier than the guests doubled their lead, Rubezic once more failing to cope with the tempo of Olusanya who shrugged off a weak nudge from the defender earlier than reducing again for Mandron to information the ball dwelling from six yards.
Rubezic signalled to the bench and was changed by on-loan Tottenham defender Alfie Dorrington instantly after the aim.
The Dons introduced on Ante Palaversa on the break and he nearly had an instantaneous impression as Alexander Jensen’s cross fell to him on the sting of the field, however his shot went over the crossbar.
Aberdeen had been discovering some pleasure on their left flank and Okkels put in one other cross for Gueye, which the striker headed narrowly vast.
Hemming was pressured to push a deep Palaversa free-kick, which evaded everybody within the penalty space, across the publish and substitute Kevin Nisbet clipped the crossbar with a 20-yard free-kick because the hosts continued to seek for a means again into the sport.
Nisbet was denied by Hemming from shut vary with the Dons’ greatest probability of the match and Jensen noticed his follow-up effort drift narrowly vast of the far publish because the Buddies aim led a charmed life.
However any hope of an Aberdeen comeback was extinguished when one other lengthy ball, this time from Alex Gogic, discovered Mandron in acres of area and he lashed dwelling a pleasant effort from the sting of the world.
What the managers mentioned…
Aberdeen boss Jimmy Thelin: “It’s robust right now.
“We’re on this run of video games and earlier than the sport we really feel like we’re trying higher and higher in coaching periods and
the group appears to be like higher and higher, and then you definately get the outcome like that.
“It’s difficult for everybody, for me and the supporters. I, because the supervisor, am accountable and I’ve discover a solution to stability the group another way so we do not get so uncovered to the conditions.
St Mirren boss Stephen Robinson: “We have had a number of good performances in current weeks, however what was the large plus for me was our defending from set-pieces. Zach [Hemming] was dominant within the air.
“The strikers will get all of the plaudits, rightly so, however for me as a supervisor, the explanation we’re not greater up the desk has been our defending from set-plays within the second part.
“We defended for our lives right now, we depend on Zach to come back and dominate and that is what he is executed, and that provides us a platform to play from. After which among the high quality from the entrance two, they dominated the sport and induced actual, actual
issues for Aberdeen.”
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