Aberdeen 1-2 Hibernian: Jimmy Thelin challenges players to be more competitive

Aberdeen boss Jimmy Thelin admitted his side were not good enough in Sunday’s 2-1 William Hill Premiership defeat at home to Hibernian and called for his players to be more competitive in their performances.

Adil Aouchiche should have netted for the Dons early on, but the visitors took the lead through Thibault Klidje, 10 minutes from the interval.

Substitute Elie Youan added a solo second that seemed to have made the points safe before a dramatic injury-time period saw a Josh Campbell effort ruled offside.

Aberdeen then raced up the park to pull a goal back through Marko Lazetic but it was too late to mount a comeback.

Thelin said afterwards: “The game started OK and we created some chances but we missed those and allowed Hibs to create more.

“They had the momentum and while the second half was quite open, Hibs were more competitive.

“We didn’t do enough to show our fans that we were back on track or competitive enough to deserve a better result today. The energy we needed wasn’t there today.

“We have a journey to go (on) as a collective, but also as individuals we need to grow – and how we defend situations has to be much, much better.

“I am responsible for results and we need to do better. We are losing too many individual battles in games, regardless of systems and players.”