Dons to utilise squad

Challenge is now to keep results coming — Roarie

“The whole team played with belief, one to 11 and even the players coming off the bench, everyone put in a shift for ourselves, our team-mates, the gaffer and the staff.”

The challenge now for the Dark Blues is to ensure this victory isn’t just a one-off and they can put together a run of form that gets them away from the wrong end of the Premiership table.

For Deacon, the only way is up at Dundee — but only if they can keep up the level of performance and desire they showed at Dens on Friday.

“We needed to get off the bottom of the table because we didn’t deserve to be there.

“We knew that as a team, as staff and as fans, we didn’t deserve to be there because of the players we have in our team, the way we play week in, week out.

“We just need to not let ourselves down now and continue getting three points.

“Rangers came to Dens with a strong team and we nullified them to limited chances.

“We created a few chances, scored our two goals and got the three points.

“Obviously, six games without a win, five losses on the bounce isn’t fantastic but games like Friday are ones where you kind of bring the fans back, put a smile on their faces again and, hopefully, we can keep doing that.” ABERDEEN manager Derek McInnes admits he will need to rotate his squad for the double-header against Rangers after getting two less days to prepare.

The Dons warmed up for tomorrow’s trip to I brox with a 3-1 victory over Kilmarnock on Sunday, two days after Rangers lost at Dundee.

Kari Arnason and Adam Rooney dropped to the bench at Rugby Park and could come back in at Ibrox or Pittodrie on Sunday along with the likes of Greg Stewart.

McInnes said: “It’s important we use the squad over the two games.

“We went there at the back end of last season

Derek McInnes and showed enough confidence in the performance to get the result. “Hopefully, we can start another winning run from Sunday and go there and get three points.”