Match Thread (Europa League) Aberdeen V Qarabag

[Geoff_Tipps]

1 minute ago, Andy_123 said:

A goal is more than we deserve from this game.

Really poor tonight, although Qarabag are clearly a far better team than us.

Make up your mind min 

[daytripping]

Fucking ref blew a bit early there, should have been at least another 5.

There's the reason why we didn't sell out though, was obvious we would lose. Till that's sorted price point isn't important.

[Hagi's pubic hair]

8 minutes ago, RED_JOHN said:

Lewis is done and just looks like a pervy neighbour peering over fencing 

Do you have experience in this area?

[YorkDon]

2 minutes ago, slippers said:

Majority of team is made up of Azerbaijan internationals who are 150 odd in world. Absolute dirt on international stage yet like you say man for man technically miles ahead of us. Sickening! We need to push for third as that will guarantee groups, only way I can see us qualifying!

Think one of the subs that came on was an ex Czech international, so no mugs at all.

At this level you expect your players to be able to pass to a team mate, even when under pressure.

[Hazlehead Don]

Gambled on getting into group stages without buying a centre half or striker, when clearly required both a number of weeks ago. You reap what you sow!!!

 

[G31DON]

2 minutes ago, Ten Caat said:

And if Cormack lobs another £20m into the pot we might be able to afford 2 or 3 of them

That only leaves the problem of us paying the wages they'll want....

Fucking shut up about wages, would you? It's really tedious. 

[aberdeen1970]

Schooled. 

Their front four were clever, pulled our defence all over the place.  And the two wide ones just sat in the space behind our full backs when they went forward and could receive the ball under no pressure at all. 

Rest of their team were well drilled and knew exactly where their team mates would be at any point. 

I'm surprised we got as far as we did really.  Still a lot of work to do. 

Time to get our heads down and get stuck into the league season. 

 

[Ernie McCracken]

This game is all the fans predictions coming to pass

Fans were concerned Rameriz wasnt good enough to be the main man

Fans were concerned that JET only played in flashes (notablly against us) 

Fans were concerned that Glass was going into the season with McCrorie in defence and resigning Devlin rather than signing an actual defender who wasn't injured

Fans were concerned that Teddy Jenks wouldn't be good enough having only played youth football in England. 

What do the fans know eh? 

And on Austen Samuel, I really hope he is the signing that finally proves Glass and Cormack to be geniuses and the fans to be idiots, but I doubt it. 

[RED_JOHN]

1 minute ago, Hagi's pubic hair said:

Do you have experience in this area?

I have perverts looking at me strangely quite often ?

[Ten Caat]

3 minutes ago, G31DON said:

Fucking shut up about wages, would you? It's really tedious. 

"Sook ma throbbin dong"

[Shinniesta]

Well beaten by a far superior team. Scottish football outside of the Glasgow two is so poor in quality so we shouldn't be surprised we got humped the first time we come up against a well drilled side with technically good players all over the pitch. 

[Ke1t]

Is Scottish football now behind Azerbaijani football?

We have practically no technical ability whatsoever. 

 

[davieb]

Just now, Ten Caat said:

And if Cormack lobs another £20m into the pot we might be able to afford 2 or 3 of them

That only leaves the problem of us paying the wages they'll want....

Apparently not as high as you'd think

http://www.culturemap.az/info/Detailed_News.aspx?id=52791&lng=en

https://www.azernews.az/sports/160770.html

https://ghanasoccernet.com/michael-essiens-salary-at-azerbaijani-side-sabail-fk-revealed

 

[Fletcher Christian]

We are a big club min

[Geoff_Tipps]

Just now, Hazlehead Don said:

Gambled on getting into group stages without buying a centre half or striker, when clearly required both a number of weeks ago. You reap what you sow!!!

 

This is it summed up perfectly. Cormack and Glass put all their eggs into the one European basket. The tried to do it on the cheap and got exactly what they deserved, out of Europe and out of the league cup. 

 

[Kincardine_Mearns_Red]

6 minutes ago, Ke1t said:

Is Scottish football now behind Azerbaijani football?

We have practically no technical ability whatsoever. 

 

Aye.

[Zeus]

Massive let down as per. 

Totally outclassed 

[Stoneybloke]

Same old story. Expectations raised, hopes build, only to fizzle out once again. We should know our place by now.

[aberdeen1970]

We need a couple of midfielders who can take a ball in to feet on the half turn and make things happen. All our midfielders are too samey and slow and want to play behind the ball. Mix is completely wrong and we leave gaping holes in the centre of the pitch. 

 

[frankie_mac's_4]

3 minutes ago, aberdeen1970 said:

Schooled. 

Their front four were clever, pulled our defence all over the place.  And the two wide ones just sat in the space behind our full backs when they went forward and could receive the ball under no pressure at all. 

Rest of their team were well drilled and knew exactly where their team mates would be at any point. 

I'm surprised we got as far as we did really.  Still a lot of work to do. 

Time to get our heads down and get stuck into the league season. 

 

Nutshell - they're a fucking decent side on tonight's showing. Whichever way you dissect our performance tonight, I doubt we could match that level

[Guest milne_afc]

I thought Cormack and his m8s invested 20 big ones?

[perthshirered]

1 hour ago, Andy_123 said:

Was the 2nd offside? There wasn’t a decent replay on RedTV so couldn’t tell.

I was in line with it, yards offside. My thought being that he was so far offside the linesman never even seen him. 

[BonnieDon]

Not surprised tbh. They are a much better side than ourselves. Never expected us to reach the group stages. Would require a decent amount of investment to do so.

We can focus on the league and Scottish cup.

 

[slippers]

5 minutes ago, Hazlehead Don said:

Gambled on getting into group stages without buying a centre half or striker, when clearly required both a number of weeks ago. You reap what you sow!!!

 

Wouldn't of made any difference. Had we just missed out maybe but we were absolutely battered. Like someone said earlier if it was a decent pitch at away leg we would of been put before tonight.

[Poodler]

4 minutes ago, Captain Caveman said:

At least we’ve still got the domestic cups to play for

Aren’t we out of one of them already? 
 

a complete embarrassment 

certainly will be a rebuilding year (code for really shit)

[G31DON]

4 minutes ago, Ten Caat said:

"Sook ma throbbin dong"

Nah. Why have you got a throb on? 

[Elderadojnr]

Totally agree. No pace throughout the team bar maybe Ramsay. Few times ojo got the break of the ball but simply doesn’t have enough pace to punish opposition.

[Andy_123]

9 minutes ago, Geoff_Tipps said:

Make up your mind min 

What are you on about? We were poor and didn’t deserve a goal, hence a goal is more than we deserved.

[Kincardine_Mearns_Red]

7 minutes ago, milne_afc said:

I thought Cormack and his m8s invested 20 big ones?

So they say. Or is he just Stewart Milne with better teeth?

[WesthillWanderersFC]

3 minutes ago, Geoff_Tipps said:

This is it summed up perfectly. Cormack and Glass put all their eggs into the one European basket. The tried to do it on the cheap and got exactly what they deserved, out of Europe and out of the league cup. 

 

The thing is, at the level of money we can (arguably) and realistically afford, what difference would it have made?

Do you really think us having the likes of Jason Kerr & Jamie McGrath for example would’ve have made any difference to the outcome? 

We’d need to spend about £10m to have a chance to beat Qarabag - we don’t have one player that would get in their team.