From late summer to autumn, when Aberdeen were riding high and lighting up the Scottish Premiership, a cold hard winter has now engulfed Jimmy Thelin and his team.
Expecting them to maintain their stunning form of 10 wins and a draw from their opening 11 league games was always unrealistic, but the slump during this run of seven winless games has been stark.
A 6-0 thrashing by Celtic in the League Cup semi-final at the start of November, followed by a first league defeat to St Mirren a few weeks later, created a crisis of confidence in a squad that had grown used to it. winner
That early season momentum has stalled and the humbling 4-0 capitulation to Kilmarnock on Boxing Day – a defeat that could have been uglier had it not been for some good saves from Dimitar Mitov – was worrying.
“They’ve fallen off a cliff to be honest with you,” Aberdeen great Willie Miller said on BBC’s Sportsound. “It was an embarrassing result.
“It’s hard to pin it down. They’re running out of energy in midfield. They’ve gone from a team that can’t win or at least lose games to free-fall.
“Thelin has several aspects.
“He deserves some time to bring in his own players and turn things around again. It’s not a great situation.”
