Aberdeen boss Jimmy Thelin spoke to the press after a topsy-turvy game at Easter Road ended with honours even, the Dons first coming from behind before twice being pegged back in added time.

“It was an emotional game tonight. After the first half, we came back into the game and we fight back and did some really good individual things and as a collective. The substitutes helped us, Leighton made some good touches, Shayden adding his quality one against one, Ester’s finishing, Jack came on and took responsibility.

“After their late equalizer, there’s so much emotion when we scored again in the 95^th minute that you can lose a little bit of concentration. It was an amazing goal and you celebrate and the game should be over, but we make a collective mistake. We know what they’re going to do, but we were too spread out, so they pick up the second ball. That’s football. It happens all over the world, these strange games, but of course we have to learn from this and mature as a team. The game is not over until it’s over. Hibernian take the opportunity and get one point.

“The first reaction, of course, everybody was disappointed inside the dressing room, but that game is a learning point also, how you mature as a team, because we know we need to be compact, we know they’re just going to kick it forward, that we have to be close to each other, but we weren’t and there was space all over the place. Then they find this way to score.

“But also we have to think of the positive things, like how we come back to the game, how we scored three goals away, and how the team spirit was after being 1-0 down at half-time but we keep pushing and try to win the game.

“It was quite an open game today, both teams did mistakes, there was big chances for both teams, but still the spirit is there, the players are trying and they want so much to give everything for the support that was here. We have a lot of good things to focus on as well as the disappointment.”