Aberdeen head coach Stephen Robinson has praised his players for delivering positive results after having their character called into question.
When Robinson took charge last month the Dons were embroiled in the relegation battle and his tenure began with a three-game winless run.
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But subsequent back-to-back victories – and clean sheets – against Hibernian and Kilmarnock have all but made Aberdeen safe as they have an eight-point cushion over second-bottom Kilmarnock with four games to go.
But Robinson, who takes his side to bottom club Livingston on Friday night, is taking nothing for granted.
“I think before I came in people questioned the character of the team,” the former St Mirren boss said.
“It was questioned week in, week out. What they have shown is under an intense amount of pressure they can rise to that.
“We know we didn’t play to the level we wanted to play last week [in the 1-0 win against Killie] but you could feel the nervous energy. What we have done is be able to handle that, you have to grind results out at times and we have ground the two results out in different ways.
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“There has been a real positivity around the camp. The players are playing under a lot of pressure so hopefully that has eased a little bit but we’re still certainly not 100% safe.
“Whether we are safe or not we have still got work to do and until we are mathematically safe then nobody will be dropping any kind of standards here at the football club.
“My remit was make sure we are not in a relegation battle, we have still to confirm that we are not so until we do that we won’t be resting on our laurels.”
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