Jimmy Thelin fully believes that the draw at home to the Buddies was their best performance of the season so far.

The dons drew 3-3 at Pittodrie yesterday evening despite being 3-2 up last on, Richard King suffered a big blow to take one point back down to Paisley. St Mirren had taken the lead after 55 minutes after a lengthy VAR check in which lead to a penalty where Marcus Fraser dispatched. A very high-scoring fixture as both sides shared the points.

Aberdeen have lately been praised for their defensive work but it is safe to say, their defensive work wasn’t at their best last night, conceding three to Stephen Robinson’s men however have also had issues in the scoring side which is one positive to take. Ahead of Dundee on Saturday, Jimmy said: “Of course, after a game it’s a lot of emotions and you play maybe our best performance so far this season.

“You score three goals, you are one down and you come back and then 2-2, and then you score another one, and then you lose a goal in the last second of the game – of course, it’s tough.

“But it’s another game on Saturday and I think the team performed really well the whole game better on what we talked about before this game – the creativity and the goals we scored, the chances we created in both halves.

“Sometimes this is football. Of course, you want to win and losing a goal in the last second of the game is tough.

“But the players performed really well today.”

Jimmy was in full praise in the attacking side by the Paisley outfit.

A very last minute goal by the Buddies sealed a point for the struggling St Mirren side which will only boost confidence. Thelin said:  “To be fair to St Mirren, they did well in the situation they created in the end and take the opportunity.

“Of course we can learn and do something better, how we come closer to the opponents in the last minute of the game and these kind of things.

“So it was disappointing, the result – but the performance was good. You probably should have been goals up at half-time again.

“We have another game on Saturday and I think the team and the players are growing. So the result today and when the goal comes, there can be a lot of emotions on that one.

“But we need to stay focused that we actually did a good performance.

“I know football is always about winning, but our last period now has been good in results and also now the performance was really good.

“So we have to focus on the right things and recover again and take the next challenge on Saturday.”

Jimmy Thelin later spoke on the referee and VAR as roughly nine minutes were added following lengthy stoppages. Jimmy said:

“The referees are the referees and we focus on other things.”

He added: “It’s a lot of minutes (at the end), especially when you have a lot of… I think it was 10 or 11 minutes, something.

“And then you play so many games, it’s a lot of extra minutes.

“But that’s the rules and we have to follow the rules and then we have to adapt and grow.”

Aberdeen decided to see the game out and make defensive changes but Gavin Molloy who was only just on was soon forced off with an issue leaving Aberdeen with ten men. The dons boss stated: “Let’s see.

“That’s one of the most important things now. But this just happened so we need to assess him and then maybe we’ll know tomorrow.

“I hope everything is fine.”