Livi v Aberdeen (Tues Night)

Not sure if we'll line up as attacking as we did against Killie, it's at home so we should, but with Martindale i get the feeling he'll be a bit more defensive minded with it being against a bigger team sitting in 3rd place. Can see us sacrificing Bahamboula for Holt or Omeonga coming in to give us an extra midfielder.

Hopefully we'll make only 2 changes, bringing in Montano for Longridge, and Holt for St Kelly, think we need Holt's experience for this one, and he'll be pretty fresh after only coming on as a late sub against Killie. As i said though, can see Omeonga coming in for Bahamboula too, and just having Anderson and Nouble up front.

Also a bit apprehensive if Martindale will rest up Anderson for the Hearts game and not risk playing him 3 games in a week, and we'll see Nouble as a lone striker again.

Aye Nick Walsh is the ref, Craig Napier 4th official and Andrew Dallas on VAR.

Wooft what a result, relieved at the end to take all 3 pts, isn't good for the nerves having to watch us hanging on for dear life for so long in the match.

Yeah first half we looked like we could score at will, absolutely bossing them all over the pitch, pressed the life out of them and they were shaky as feck. Dunno why we stopped doing that and just dropping deep allowing them the freedom of the pitch to bring the ball out of their half, and have so many shots at our goal. When pressed Aberdeen's defence is pretty shite.

Brilliant game by Shamal, as Bertie said, had a few cracking saves even when we were on top in the first half, and the double pen save. Dunno what has happened to L Kelly but his set piece deliveries have improved a hell of a lot, every corner caused havoc in their box, same with Obileye's free kick, stunning curling effort forcing a good save from Roos.

Where to start with VAR, was pretty funny when it got us our pen and called play back from an Aberdeen attack, think Devlin got his card rescinded after the rugby tackle too, not so funny when it gave them 2 pens though. The amount of hand ball pens is going to go through the roof, can't remember us seeing 3 in the one game before. The time it takes to give them and letting play go so far too is ridiculous.

Anyway, buzzing to come away with 3 pts and go level with Aberdeen on 22pts, bring on the Hearts.

Must be the only one that doesn't give a jot we were pummeled when coming away with the 3 pts, it was annoying at the time the way we dropped right off, and nervy as feck watching us hanging on, but the relief soon turned to joy for me that we won the game. I'll take that over a glorious failure every day of the week. Makes up for the St Mirren game, where we did all the work, missed a pen, then left with nothing, and even worse against County, where you came away saying how the feck did we lose that game, with County scoring their only shot on target after getting an absolute pummeling from us.

At this stage where we're playing 3 games in 8 days, the results are more important than performances. I don't think it was just the 2nd half we dropped off either, towards the end of the 1st half Aberdeen were in control coming at us, hence why they got their first pen. 2nd half was a continuation of that.

Aye Goncalves was worse than Chuky, getting shouted at by both the fans and Martindale for his lack of effort, walking about when we were under so much pressure, funnily enough it was against Aberdeen Chuky came on and did the same thing, then got subbed back off again. Goncalves looked knackered after only being on the pitch a few minutes too. He can't trap the ball either, giving us no out ball when we fired it up to him, waste of a jersey last night.

Anyway, as i said, i'm just relieved to have won the game, i would've been raging had we drawn or lost though, the way we dropped so deep after being 2-0 up, felt at the time when we were on top we could do with a 3rd to really deflate them though, but i thought after we got away with not conceding from their pen just on the brink of HT, it would've been a wake up call for us to come out the 2nd half and push for a 3rd, wasn't to be though.

22pts is a brilliant tally at this stage, would be incredible if we could make it 3 wins in a row and get up to 25pts, we'd be well on our way to smashing our best ever top flight pts total for a season. Last season after 14 games we were on 13pts.

Belter, St Johnstone equalised with St Mirren in the 96th minute, so we remain in 4th place.

Results all going our way tonight, Sevco beating Hearts, Celtic beating Motherwell, Utd beating Killie, and St Mirren drawing with St Johnstone. Don't think it could've gone any better for us.