Christie on Jags survival mission
now and take it into the next game.”
Dundee, three points above 11-placed Jags, losing heavily to St Johnstone on Saturday certainly helped but Elliott insisted: “We need to concentrate on ourselves first.”
However, after such a prolonged period on the sidelines, the Englishman admitted he needed to put his feet up on Saturday night.
“I was a little bit tired to be fair,” he said.
“Obviously I’ve played a few reserve games but it was hard – but it’s something to build on now. I’ve got take the things from Saturday’s game and go from there.”
ORIGINALLY told he could face six months out, Elliott, at the club since 2011 and who has a deal until next year, admitted he feared his season could be finished.
“When I got told how long I could be out it hurts you a little bit, but we’ve got a good group and, while there were good days and bad days, it was about keeping my head down and working hard.”
Hard work – and organisation – was exactly what Alan Archibald called for on Saturday and the Partick Thistle manager was duly rewarded with a strong performance from his players.
Archibald said: “I was delighted with the clean sheet and thought it was merited, especially the second-half performance. I hope we go and build on it. “Aberdeen are a good side. “I think the last 20 minutes of the first half, Aberdeen were really dominant.
“The game got too stretched but I thought we improved in the second half. I thought there was a bit of desire there.”
Thistle had few chances but, after the misery of the closing stages in recent weeks, could have won the game at the death when Freddie Woodman pushed away substitute Ryan Edwards’ drive from the angle.
“We were a bit tentative,” said Archibald.
“At the end we broke away and you could see us thinking ‘do we go for it or not?’, but delighted after losing late goals to get a good clean sheet.”