Danny Ward

Despite the defeat at Celtic Park Danny Ward once again put in a very decent performance as he kept his good form going with a string of fine saves. After the game the on-loan keeper spoke to RedTV:

“It was a very disappointing afternoon.

“My own personal performance does not matter. We win as a team and we lose as a team. There are eleven players out on the pitch in Aberdeen shirts. If we win we all feel great but if we lose every one of us in that dressing room feels the same regardless of how well you have played individually. And everyone is feeling down.

“However I feel we played a lot better than the scoreline suggests, in the first half especially when I think we asked a few questions of them but we are not happy with the three goals that we have conceded.

“The feeling on the pitch was that we looked a lot more like ourselves. We periods when we controlled the game and controlled what Celtic did. I thought we caused Celtic problems in that first half.

“The first goal was extremely disappointing.  It is always very disappointing and deflates you a bit when a goal goes in just before half time. Before that I don’t think they have had a lot of chances, maybe just one for Griffiths when he was through on goal. Then to compound that we lose the second goal when they get the penalty near the start of the second half as well. That really took the wind out of our sails.

“It is always the case when you are on a run like this, you find that any little lapses seem to be punished. During the first eight game of the season when we were winning that was not happening.

“I feel we did enough going forward and created some good chances of our own. On another day we could easily have scored a number of goals with those chances.

“We are not bad side.

“Again as I say the scoreline maybe does not show that but we can take confidence from some of the things we did in the game. I felt we looked stronger today but defensive lapses have cost us. We can’t get down. We need to keep believing in ourselves.

“All we can do is pick ourselves up and look forward to the next game.

“And all we can do to turn things around is to keep working hard. We have to keep the belief. You don’t win the first eight games of the season by luck or by chance. But we recognise the fact not winning any of our last six games is not just because we have been unlucky. So there things that need to be addressed on the training pitch but I felt for periods we were more like ourselves today.

“We just need to not worry about anything else and just concentrate on ourselves. We have to forget about what the other teams round about us are doing in the league. We just have to take every game as it comes. I know it is an old cliché but that is what we need to do and we need to get back to winning ways which is what the lads are desperate to do.

“We have been working hard to do that and we will continue to work hard to get ourselves going again next Saturday.

“It is all a learning curve for me as it is all the young players in the side. But one thing is for sure. You do not play football to be a loser or to draw games. You play footballing wanting to win every game and our focus now is on trying to achieve that next Saturday against Dundee United.”