Match Thread (Europa League) BK Hacken 2 - 0 Aberdeen (3 - 5)

[NEM]

2 minutes ago, Roberto said:

He cut inside looked up and passed clean to a Hacken player. Truly bizarre player.

I'll be honest here, aye lost 2 nil but I think we have played some okay football. I wouldn't at all compare it to end of McInnes reign. We try pass the ball about. Need a centre back, and if took one of the many chances we had. Different game. 

Ojo, please don't play him Sunday.

Gallagher in for McRorie with McRorie taking Ojo’s place in midfield going forward surely 

[Andy_123]

Need to work on taking chances. Could easily have cost us tonight had it not been for the red card.

[Guest milne_afc]

Pish from the Dons. Puts last weeks freak result into some perspective.

[WesthillWanderersFC]

We’d have taken 5-3 on aggregate last Thursday

Poor 2nd half though. 
Centre of defence caught square too often.

Gallagher needs to come in as McCrorie positionally a bit suspect. 

Ojo scores that sitter & makes it 1-1 & it peters out instead of the slight panic & nonsense that followed.

 

[frankie_mac's_4]

Poor defensively and wasteful with our chances. 2nd competitive game of the season only and through to next round. I'll take it for now

[Guest milne_afc]

Jenks looks completely shit

[Kincardine_Mearns_Red]

We look frail/no real pace in defence especially when Hacken were running at us.

[Bournemouth Gee]

Only our 2nd game of the season, league hasn't started yet.

 

[afc1903mad]

Bloody hell, Rob McLean and Steve Cowan don’t know next week is away first

[Kelvin]

Certainly need another couple of bodies in. Look really short up top and at centre half. Would be worried if we went with this squad for the season.

[Oregon Red]

Well that was a weird game! Crazy. I hope Glass has learned something tonight., the game turned bad when  JET went off and Ojo missed the sitter. I thought  Gallagher should have been on after their first goal. And when he did come on that calmed our defence down.

Ramirez should be doing better with his chances. But the Swedes were totally out of control  last 20  minutes.

I think this is one of those one off games, and we shouldn't read too much into it. 

I do not want to see Ojo in a Dons team again.

[fine-n-dandy]

7 minutes ago, Roberto said:

He cut inside looked up and passed clean to a Hacken player. Truly bizarre player.

I'll be honest here, aye lost 2 nil but I think we have played some okay football. I wouldn't at all compare it to end of McInnes reign. We try pass the ball about. Need a centre back, and if took one of the many chances we had. Different game. 

Ojo, please don't play him Sunday.

Played ok, I think we would have been in more trouble in that game under McInnes as he would have had us sitting in.

Defence is a real worry though. Clearly need in another STARTING 11 defender. Even without the bookings/potential suspensions for our 2 CH's if we get past next round.

Also striker needed. We cannot depend on the two we have being ever present & on form. They are still very much both (could go either way) yay/nay

[sheepcrooky]

13 minutes ago, paddy said:

Finishing tonight has been woeful - like, end of McInnes reign woeful.

There is no way a McInnes side would have created that many chances away in Europe. We should have had that game out of sight. Ramirez and Ojo missing absolute sitters. 
We missed JET when he went off injured. 

[RUL]

We need to be more clinical as the game turned on how many good opportunities we wasted. 

[BonnieDon]

Switch Ojo out for Gallagher with McCrorie coming into midfield. Gallagher looked settled when he came on. 

JET should be ok for Sunday and at least with him coming off he was able rest a little before the Dundee Utd match.

A frustrating match as I felt we should have scored from the chances we created. Hacken were incredibly dirty. I feel a draw would have been a fairer result.

Just pleased the match is over and we are through to the next round. The Icelandic team will be a decent opposition..

[afc1903mad]

I wanted Breidablik and they are still 2-0 up, and I see this is the Islandic team that Motherwell put out 10 years ago.

They are the lowest seeds in this next round, but they have just come through two rounds

[Joe pike]

Unsure what to make of that.

Main pluses were the 2 young full backs.

Also think Brown did okay.

One huge negative was Joe Lewis kicking.

Never went to an Aberdeen player once.

[fine-n-dandy]

8 minutes ago, RUL said:

We need to be more clinical as the game turned on how many good opportunities we wasted. 

Agreed. 13 shots 8 on target is good (great in fact) considering 5-1 lead going into game but we should be scoring at least 1 with those stats. They scored 2 with lesser stats which only helps highlight our weaknesses at both ends for coming season & especially any hopes of making group stage in Europe. 
Hopefully Glass/Cormack/Russel aren’t ignorant to this.

 

Not to mention the serious pile up of bookings already.

Cormack needs to dip in his pocket & speed up his (only if the right players are available) prawcess

[DelMonte]

Ramirez was very good last week but terrible tonight. Life of a striker who’s level is Aberdeen I suppose. 

[afc1903mad]

2 minutes ago, Millertime said:

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[Geoff_Tipps]

4 minutes ago, afc1903mad said:

I wanted Breidablik and they are still 2-0 up, and I see this is the Islandic team that Motherwell put out 10 years ago.

They are the lowest seeds in this next round, but they have just come through two rounds

You're quite correct, we need to take these Islamists seriously. 

[Oregon Red]

3 minutes ago, Joe pike said:

Unsure what to make of that.

Main pluses were the 2 young full backs.

Also think Brown did okay.

One huge negative was Joe Lewis kicking.

Never went to an Aberdeen player once.

Yeah he was back to  blootering it anywhere up field. Maybe because he didn't trust his defence to pass the ball up field. But still na good.

[Jazzer08]

I think this just further emphasizes the need for another striker, preferable someone with pace to get in behind. Ramirez and JET are both good to feet and look like they will do a job holding up and bringing others into play, but neither (JET especially) are pacey.

You could see the dynamic of the game change as well when we were forced to go with one up top with no other striker to call on. That simply invited more pressure on us.

Hopefully we can get a striker in before we face the Icelandic outfit (who look like they are currently going through).

[afc1903mad]

We will never have an easier team in QR3 to get to the PO round, but they have shown this competition that we’ll need to be wary of them.

Surely we should go through though

[Ernie McCracken]

Sorry Ojo, but we simply cannot accommodate a midfielder that squanders so many chances.

[afc1903mad]

Just now, NEM said:

Vienna pulled one back 

Yep, 20 to go

[Laichomoray]

15 minutes ago, Jazzer08 said:

I think this just further emphasizes the need for another striker, preferable someone with pace to get in behind. Ramirez and JET are both good to feet and look like they will do a job holding up and bringing others into play, but neither (JET especially) are pacey.

You could see the dynamic of the game change as well when we were forced to go with one up top with no other striker to call on. That simply invited more pressure on us.

Hopefully we can get a striker in before we face the Icelandic outfit (who look like they are currently going through).

Alwayes wondered what damage Johnny could do further up the pitch running at defences

[jamiesd]

Job done.  Agree with the majority. Ojo swap for McCrorie.  And Gallagher in at the back for Sunday.  

[slippers]

I didn’t see the game. Listened on radio. I’m a little worried about our balance. I like that we are play attacking football but there has to be a balance. I just hope we don’t get turned over a number of times in the fashion Dundee United did in cup last season. 

[NEM]

Vienna pulled one back