Connor Barron said that Aberdeen’s win at Motherwell must be just the start of they are going to pull away from the wrong end of the SPFL table in the next few weeks.

“We needed the win, so it was a massive three points, but it’s just the start. We need to go on a run. It’s just the first win ticked off, we need to go again. I thought the boys controlled the game and saw it out at the end and showed a great character. We take confidence from today. We know what we can do now. We’re all on the same page. Today shows that if we get the ball down and play, how good we can be.

“Peter Leven’s been brilliant. He’s obviously been here a while and we all know what he’s like and the way he wants to play. I think Wednesday night at Dundee, we got a bit stuck in between different managers telling us different things and we just weren’t all on the same page. It’s been tough dealing with the upheaval here, but that’s football, isn’t it? Sometimes it’s like that.

“We had a good meeting together as a team and we realised the quality we’ve got on the ball and that we need to start using that. We’ve got players in that team to play nice football and today we showed what we can do. It’s important we continue that.

“Every player sees things differently and takes things differently. Some like a wee arm around them and some do better for a wee rollicking. It’s been brilliant to see what Pete can do in this short space of time, starting from today I’d say. It’s just important for us to use that and kick on.

“I think one thing you can’t say about this team is we don’t give 100% every week. There’s bundles of quality in the team and it’s a team who won’t give up. We showed that today, especially that last 10-15 minutes when the pressure was piling on. We showed we wanted to go and win that game. It’s important for us that we really take that feeling from the end of the game and bring it into the last eight league games.”