ABERDEEN boss Mark McGhee is feeling more positive after his side's spirited comeback from two goals down to the SPL's third-place team Dundee Utd.
The Dons have now gone 11 games without a win, the worst by a Pittodrie side since 1927, but McGhee is upbeat after Saturday's comeback.
A Jon Daly double had given United an early lead in Saturday's Scottish Premier League encounter but the Dons fought back with a Zander Diamond header and a Michael Paton penalty in first-half injury-time.
McGhee said: "With going 2-0 down at home to our local rivals Dundee United on the back of the run we were on, it took a tremendous amount of attitude not to lose the place completely.
"However the players kept their shape and kept grinding away and eventually got the breakthrough. I was delighted and at that point I was hoping that they wouldn't throw the good work away and go on and lose the game but they didn't. They thoroughly deserved it."
McGhee felt his side should have been awarded a free-kick in the build-up to Daly's opener for United.
He said: "In a situation like this you feel the world is against you and I felt decisions went against us. Some of those decisions probably didn't but it just felt that way. Although I definitely think there was a decision in the first goal that did go against us when (David) Goodwillie came back from an offside position and touched the ball in the build-up to their goal.
"At that point it feels like everything is against us and the players had to overcome that as well, which they did."
McGhee believes the Dons will return to winning ways if they continue to perform in the same manner.
He added: "I think the supporters have the right to question why it has not been like that and why we have not had that effort in other games. It is difficult to answer that but now they have shown that we have to try maintain that until the end of the season."
Source: Team Talk
Source: Team Talk