Aberdeen manager Jimmy Thelin has been speaking to the media ahead of Sunday's Premiership visit of Rangers.
Here are the main points:
- Thelin isn't buying into the view that playing Rangers between their two Athletic Bilbao Europa League quarter final fixtures could work in Aberdeen's favour and stresses this fixture and the rivalry "is important for everyone".
- The Dons boss stresses Rangers have a good squad and even if they make changes with the European games in mind, will "have good players on the pitch whoever they play".
- He is expecting a "really intense" game against a Rangers side who have "tweaked some parts" under Barry Ferguson.
- With the chase for European places intensifying, Thelin stresses every game between now and the end of the season is "like a cup game".
- With his own team on a run of just one defeat in their last nine games, Thelin said he's "happy for the progress the players have shown".
- On local lad Jack Milne signing a new long term deal, Thelin insists "it is so important for the DNA and identity".
- There's no change on the injury front - Kristers Tobers and Dimitar Mitov are "not going to be available for this game".
