Young side in Aberdeenshire final against Formartine at Inverurie tonight.
Aberdeen: Vitols, Lobban (C), Ross, Carrol, Masson, Teasdale, To, Cummings, Frame, Kjartansson, Ambrose.
Subs: Simpson (GK), Stephen, Searle, Green, McLean, McDonnell, Duncan
Just seen it (okay may have seen it last night and the morphine fog took it) and it’s a farcical decision. The exact thing we were told would be eliminated by the introduction of VAR.
VAR brings nothing to game and it is ruining attending live matches. It needs punting. I would rather go to a lower league game without VAR these days.
See I vaguely remember discussing if that was reason on Saturday but I see there’s no mention of it in the match thread so it may have been with the pink elephant I watched the game with instead.
This was going to be a difficult game if we were playing well so expecting this to be a watching from behind the couch type of night.
Perversely I do think Shaktar are the type of team that the Dons are set up to play against. I expect Shaktar to have a lot of the ball and be on the front foot which should leave the space for the quick transitions that Thelin goes on about. However with our best goal scorer, Nisbet, not really fitting the system, Lazetic looking like he has technical ability to play system but not seen anything that suggests he is a striker and seen nothing from Yengi that suggests he is a footballer I can’t see the system working. Add into that that we seem to have two full backs in Jensen and Gyamfi who cannot defend and a defensive central midfield who are slow at best this could get ugly quickly.
Thankfully my post op drugs will last until end of the week so I won’t remember posting this or the game.
Oot
Couch
Couch
Bed
1-3 Lazetic proving he is a goal scorer with Dons strike.
Anyway time for the next hit.
Depending on work requirements I might head out to see if I can buy a home end ticket but won’t know until nearer the time.
Love Prague as city and will try to move things about to make it.
Not just the crowd. Even US players doing things like walking over putting lines of European players. Bet the God Emperor does not turn up today as he won’t want associated with failure.
Thought we played okay tonight and probably deserved to get a draw. Don’t think we created much going forward and never looked like scoring. Looks like we have signed another full back who cannot defend in Gyamfi. Cannot get bringing Dorrington on to play on his wrong side when Molloy was on the bench. Unlucky with first goal with Mitov being undone with miss hit shot.
Fear for Thelin now as fully expect to get our arses handed to us by Shaktar before el sackio derby against Dundee next Sunday.
Thankfully I am currently out my tits on liquid morphine so not really that bothered.