Boss casts doubt on midfielder finishing the season
Aberdeen Millar pulled up in Saturday’s game with St Johnstone midfielder Chris Millar’s season appears to be finished.
Manager Tommy Wright yesterday confirmed the 34-yearold, who signed a new one year deal last week, suffered a groin strain in the first half of Saturday’s win against Aberdeen.
It’s a blow for Millar who had his sights set on finishing the season in style without any further injury concerns.
Wright told the Perthshire Advertiser: “Chris has suffered a groin strain and will be out for two to three weeks, so his season could be over.
“With the three games in a week at the end of the season he might have a chance but we’ll just have to see. At this stage it’s highly unlikely, which is disappointing.
“We will give him a plan over the summer because he needs to get this injury over and done with. It’s a different injury but it’s roughly the same area of his body.
“We want Chris back and ready for next season, it’s unfortunate because he’s just signed his new contract.
“Over the piece he’s done enough to earn that here so he’ll get treatment and we’ll look towards next season.”
While the injury to Millar was a disappointment for boss Wright, he watched on proudly as Saints boosted chances of European football with an away win at Aberdeen.
“Saturday was a massive psychological boost for us,” he said.
“We were given two tough away games against the two best teams in the league and I think the teams below us would be thinking we wouldn’t get anything. But we’re pretty good at upsetting the odds and getting results when people don’t expect us to.
“Saturday was one of those days and we have another one of them coming up this weekend.
“We have played seventeen games in the top six over the last four years, we’ve won eight of them, drawn six and only lost three.
“Those defeats were to Celtic and Aberdeen and the other was before we played in the Scottish Cup final.
“I think the reason we’ve got that record is twofold, the players here keep going to the end of the season and also how we plan the season.
“We make sure the players are
take them.”Foster was delighted with the 2-0 win against his former employers at the weekend. Getting booed by the home support makes the triumph sweeter for him.
“You come back to your old team and for 90 minutes you get booed and all sorts shouted at you,”he said. “It’s fine, but it makes it all the sweeter when you get the victory.
“Coming back to your old team and winning is always a nice feeling.
“They had a couple of chances but over the piece I don’t think they really cut us open.
“It felt relatively comfortable on the pitch. In the same token we never really posed them much of a threat.
“There wasn’t much between the teams. For the size of Aberdeen as a club with the squad and budget, for us to match them and more shows the quality we have.
“In recent games we have maybe given away cheap goals but we didn’t do that on Saturday.
“On the back of that you can push on and win the game.
“Now the interesting game will be when we play Hearts in a couple of weeks. It might be done and dusted by then but chances are we will need to beat Hearts to cement a place in European football.”