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Scottish Premiership - Aberdeen v Hearts

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  1. It's actually three wins at Ibrox in five and a bit years. Four in Glasgow if you include the Hampden win. We also were two poor refereeing decisions away from winning at Ibrox last season. Not a single player in our team on Saturday was signed from League Two. The poorest player in red is a North Macedonian internationalist.
  2. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/jim-goodwin-plots-aberdeen-transfer-28374563 Right-back targeted.
  3. Genuinely one of the worst performances I've seen us put in at Ibrox, and that's no exaggeration. If Rangers weren't so average they could have racked up far more than they did. I've seen inferior Aberdeen teams in terms of personnel go there and hold onto the ball better than that. Did Miovski touch the ball? Clarkson came on and fell over a lot. Richardson is dire. Stewart is no leader - the only thing he's good at is clearing a ball when there's no-one around him. Goodwin said the first half was even and end-to-end. Utter tosh. We had - at best - a 10 minute spell in the first half where we got at them and obviously we get our goal. The rest of the game was one-way traffic. Their wide men had too much pace for us. We put little pressure on the ball. We just didn't bother to pass it when we had possession. Just an awful performance and result.
  4. Bought a late ticket so heading to this tomorrow. With Rangers' injuries, their probable starting XI is nothing to be scared of. Could be:- McGregor Tavernier Sands Davies Barisic Lundstram Davis Tillman Arfield Kent Colak Maybe Sakala or Arfield, or even Scott Wright, in there. It's not a frightening line-up anyway. We've beaten better Rangers teams than that. My only worry would be we haven't beaten a better team than that under Goodwin. As much as we like to pat this team on the back, his biggest result to date is an away win over a bang average Motherwell. I have my doubts over the 3-5-2, but a return to a back four means a return for Richardson. Still no sign of Hayes in any training pictures which is a worry. How I would line-up:- Roos McCrorie Stewart Scales Coulson Ramadani Barron Clarkson Besuijen Miovski Duk Feel a 1-1 draw on the cards.
  5. He was also extremely fortunate that VAR didn't pick up him fouling Ricki Lamie in the box in the last seconds of the game. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/63367953
  6. I get what you're saying, and obviously I can't argue either way until we see how Saturday goes. But, I think they got their wide-eyed stuff out of the way at Celtic Park on the opening day. I get the impression a few of them - Clarkson, Miovski, Duk, Besuijen, Coulson - will be chomping at the bit to have a crack at them. They seem unfazed by the big occasion. It's a big 90 minutes though for Stewart. It's days like this I wish our captain was still Scott Brown or Graeme Shinnie. I'm still hopeful he'll grow into the role but he looks a bag of nerves sometimes.
  7. They're low on confidence, and Napoli away on Wednesday - they'll either tire themselves out, get another knock to the confidence, or both. We're getting them at a great time. This is the type of fixture that, if at Pittodrie, they come up with a noisy away support, revel in the freedom of being away from Ibrox and the pressure, and produce a performance. It seems to be a great place for Rangers and Celtic to come when under pressure. But I actually think being at Ibrox, in front of an unhappy support, it's precisely where we want to play this game. If the game is going well for us the crowd will be on their backs. Hopefully we don't wait until we're 1-0 down before we switch on like at Celtic Park, and if we're on it we absolutely we can win this. Cut the gap on then to four points, maybe stretch our lead over those behind us, and lay down a marker for Hampden.
  8. Says 2018 when they refused to give us a 50/50 split for the final with Celtic after taking great delight in mucking is about for the semi (changed the kick-off time after originally planning to play two games at Hampden on the same day), which adversely affected the ticket sales. If you think the SPFL has found some integrity since then, I've got some disappointing news for you.
  9. Up to 20,000 tickets available. What we sell for the semi is what we'll get for the final (unless we somehow end up playing Killie) so hopefully good numbers come down.
  10. Has just scored his first goal in Serie A, putting Bologna 2-0 up v Lecce. Currently live on BT Sports.
  11. Feels like a really big win that. We knew under McInnes we had a team capable of success when we could win away regularly. Our away record this season still isn't much to shout about - two wins, three defeats, one draw (league). But there was a sign of the early McInnes in Aberdeen at Fir Park. Limited them at the back, and clinical at the other end. There's a lot of parallels with McInnes' first full season too. After 11 games Aberdeen had 20 points (19 this season), we had won at Fir Park in October - this time to reach the League Cup semis. We'd won 3 out of 6 league away games (2 from 6 this time, but one of those was Celtic away). We'd struggled v Alloa in the cup - struggled v Annan this season. It's an interesting comparison with that team & our current one. Rooney & Logan didn't join until January, so the general starting line-up was:- Langfield Shaughnessy Anderson Hector Reynolds Jack Flood McGinn Pawlett Hayes Vernon (also had Barry Robson, Clark Robertson, Cammy Smith, Calvin Zola. Think Considine was injured for most of the first part of the season.)
  12. Checking penalties & red cards - fine. But offsides at goals, that needs to be speeded up. I don't understand how it took around two minutes to decide on Miovski's goal.
  13. Confirmed for Sunday 15 January, 3pm kick-off. Travel wise probably the best option we were going to get (Celtic/Killie is a 5:30 Saturday kick-off).
  14. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63329255 So Aberdeen are hinting to the council they need some money. The council will say no, as per usual. Great fun.
  15. Was working so didn't see the game - relied on RedTV audio comms - so can't comment much on the 90 minutes. Morris - with Roberts back in training he'll likely feature less anyway. Cup draw - Rangers were the last team I wanted. Either wanted Killie (obvious reasons) or wanted another crack at Celtic, in that masochistic way of believing if we keep playing them at Hampden we'll eventually beat them, and because of all the defeats we've had to them it'll be sweet as fuck. I suppose I can wait until February to do that. Rangers though - tough but beatable. Very much like 2018 (was that really four years ago?). Hopefully it's Sunday 3pm and we get a right good support down the road.
  16. Roos McCrorie Stewart Scales Coulson Besuijen Barron Clarkson Duncan Duk Ramirez Few wee changes but strong enough to do the job.
  17. Called this in August. McInnes has done the first part, Goodwin hopefully does the same. Rangers v Celtic at 3pm on a Sunday while Aberdeen play Kilmarnock at a half empty Hampden at 12pm on a Saturday. £30 a ticket too plus train strikes. Looking forward to it. Bring on the Jags.
  18. Dunno about Hayes, but from the pictures from training, Hayden Coulson was there.
  19. Panda

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    Played, and scored, for Liverpool U21s tonight in a 3-2 loss to Accrington Stanley. Were already 2-0 down when he came on in the 63rd minute. Goal here:
  20. By all accounts he had a solid game v Napoli. However, Italian media reporting he has a "contusione al polpaccio", ie a bruised calf, and so is a doubt for the Coppa Italia game v Cagliari on Thursday.
  21. Made his first start for Bologna today away to Napoli. 2-2 with an hour played.
  22. Don't like to be the guy that moans after a win, but Hearts will be kicking themselves they lost that game. They missed at least three glorious chances, had more possession, passed the ball better than we did. Essentially they tired, we managed to exert ourselves more when they did, and got the goals, but a draw would probably have been a fair result. Duk excellent. Read someone above criticising Miovski but actually thought his work off the ball was good, and him & Duk complimented each other well. Barron & Clarkson lively and wanting involved in everything. Scales good too. Richardson though poor again. Set the tone early with a daft booking in the opening minutes. Ramadani, the assist apart, anonymous once more. We're still searching for our strongest XI, and also what system suits the players best.
  23. Hayes & Coulson injured apparently. One missing is a blow - both out is worrying. Two strikers though. Four central midfielders (or is McCrorie making it a five-man defence with two wing backs?) Be interesting to see how we line up. That actually looks quite an attacking team from Hearts. Might actually see a game of football break out today.
  24. Out of interest Jute where are you travelling from (although the username might be a giveaway I guess)
  25. Hearts have four defenders out. We have (bar Roberts) a fully fit team. They've also just been away in Italy. We absolutely should be winning this, regardless of the result and performance last week. Attack them and we'll score. Would be happy with this team. It's about time we started cloning players.
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