McKenna relishing partnership with Devlin as Dons kick on

Aberdeen defender Scott McKenna admits he is enjoying his burgeoning partnership with Michael Devlin but feels the whole team are starting to find their way after a slow start to the season.

A mixture of suspension and injury prevented Derek McInnes employing the pair together in central defence for much of the early months of the season and Aberdeen’s recent success has come after the centre-backs were reunited.

Aberdeen have only conceded two goals in the six domestic matches they have played together and they have kept clean sheets in the past two matches as the Dons kickstarted their campaign with Betfred Cup semi-final victory over Rangers and a Ladbrokes Premiership win over Hamilton.

Ahead of tomorrow’s trip to Kilmarnock, McKenna said: “My focus now is to stay injury-free and try to stay in the team for as many games as possible. The games me and Mikey have played together, we’ve formed a good partnership recently and only conceded one goal in the last five games so things are looking good.

“It’s not just down to us, the whole team have defended well for large spells in games and we’ve needed to dig in.

“At the Rangers game at the weekend the whole team came together, and it was a group effort to keep the ball out of our net.

“We’re both just desperate for each other to do well and I think that helps and hopefully we’re seeing that on the pitch.”

The Scotland defender added: “We’re sitting eighth just now, and we know a couple of good results will take us up the table and that’s what we’re all aiming to do.

“After the result at the weekend, everyone in the dressing room was very positive and everyone’s buzzing and can’t wait for the next game.

“We know it will be a difficult game when we play Kilmarnock away, but I think after our last two results we need to go into the game full of confidence.

“I think we were a bit stop/start earlier in the season, but now that we’ve got momentum behind us we just need to keep carrying it on.

“As a team we’ve managed to keep the ball out of our own net.

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