Match Thread Livingston 2 - 1 Aberdeen

[Millertime]

Unfortunately, I can see a 2-1 defeat here

Duk will be a brightspot,  but we will get off to a poor start as per

VAR will probably be heavily involved too

2-1 loss I fear,  Duk with a penalty for us after Miovski misses one

[DelMonte]

MT will throw the hissy fits of all hissy fits. 

[Millertime]

Delmonte will have a meltdown throughout the game and then,  bizarrely, compose himself at full time and try to slag off others who are still enduring their stage 5 meltdown

[fine-n-dandy]

Oh well. On to the Jutes & our continued quest to beat our record of 2 wins in a row. It’s proving quite a tough record to beat.

 

 

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[Dynamo]

We'd have got something out of the game with Ramirez instead of Miovski.

[sooth_stander]

I can see Goodloss going with a stupid 3-5-2 formation and we'll get raped early on, then he'll redeem himself slightly when he changes the formation, whilst ultimately still losing.

McCrorie will no doubt continue his recent poor form

[Dynamo]

First half was just shocking. Comically bad defending from Stewart and McCrorie. Was actually embarrassing watching them trying to deal with corners, and Roos didn't want to come and ease the pressure by collecting the ball. They persisted with playing out from the back, making it dead easy for Livi to press them and win the ball back cos they're so shit on the ball. Scales trying to link up with Mackenzie but going absolutely nowhere due to the midfield also being posted completely missing. In the first half Clarkson was OK, Barron terrible (but came on to a game in the second half), and Ramadani anonymous. When we went forward we did look dangerous but Miovski powder puff.

Second half we battered them and should have taken something, if not won it, but the damage was done. 

Can only help but think we're going to get a doing in the semi final if the defence isn't sorted.

[Broken_Glass]

Roos - pish.

Stewart - pish.

Richardson - release him.

Defence needs a major overhaul. A centre half with presence and ability to win the ball in the air is a must.

 

[Reed or deed]

Jim Goodwank 

[The Gee Man]

Goodwin has to start playing the team in front of him. Keeping the same formation/players for every game is not working. We are not Man City etc we can’t dominate teams. Sometimes a boring 0-1 away from home nicking the points is okay 

[slippers]

Was it a back 3 again? Did we change formation for the second half when we got ontop? Didn’t see any of game. 

[DelMonte]

59 minutes ago, Millertime said:

Delmonte will have a meltdown throughout the game and then,  bizarrely, compose himself at full time and try to slag off others who are still enduring their stage 5 meltdown

I was alright after the first 30 minutes and McCrorie went off. Played alright after that. 

[DelMonte]

I genuinely do think there is some positives to take from that. They showed a bit of fight and on another day we score a heap. Miovski missing the pen and Duk missing 2 sitters isn’t the norm. 

This defence are a shambles however. Need to go back to a 4 and drop McCrorie for a game. 4-3-3.

I can half accept losing if the team have given it everything. Most of them did. I just don’t see the panic yet, it’s a new team. If there is the same problems come April then fair enough. 

[WesthillWanderersFC]

I think folk get too caught up blaming the formation sometimes.

I think the awful first 30 minutes was more to do with attitude, mentality, & intent. 
They pressed us high. We struggled with it. 
Easy way to stop that… Make them turn for 5-10 minutes with longer passes and they’ll stop pressing.

And an inability to defend corners is nothing to do with a back 3 or back 4. 

Remember the horrendous Tannadice performance was a back 4, and folk were suggesting a back 3.

And when are we going to talk about Kelle Roos & his inability to keep shots out the net. There’s been a good few he should’ve kept out but hasn’t.   
Partick, Motherwell & last night in the last 3-4 matches. 

But overall we played well for an hour & 100% should’ve at least drawn, if not won, but the team needs toughened up & made harder to score against in the January window. 
Offload a couple of wide players & bring in two defenders. 

[RUL]

Duk finishing was absolutely horrendous. 

[NEM]

1 hour ago, Millertime said:

Unfortunately, I can see a 2-1 defeat here

Duk will be a brightspot,  but we will get off to a poor start as per

VAR will probably be heavily involved too

2-1 loss I fear,  Duk with a penalty for us after Miovski misses one

 

😄

You don't have next weeks lottery numbers handy do you pal?  

[NEM]

10 minutes ago, WesthillWanderersFC said:

I think folk get too caught up blaming the formation sometimes.

I think the awful first 30 minutes was more to do with attitude, mentality, & intent. 
They pressed us high. We struggled with it. 
Easy way to stop that… Make them turn for 5-10 minutes with longer passes and they’ll stop pressing.

And an inability to defend corners is nothing to do with a back 3 or back 4. 

Remember the horrendous Tannadice performance was a back 4, and folk were suggesting a back 3.

And when are we going to talk about Kelle Roos & his inability to keep shots out the net. There’s been a good few he should’ve kept out but hasn’t.   
Partick, Motherwell & last night in the last 3-4 matches. 

But overall we played well for an hour & 100% should’ve at least drawn, if not won, but the team needs toughened up & made harder to score against in the January window. 
Offload a couple of wide players & bring in two defenders. 

Starting games slowly seems to be a recurring theme.  We've been getting away with at home when teams are more likely to sit in and let us play our way into the game.  Less so away from Pittodrie

[sigh]

Do we EVER play decent in the first half and win games then, or do we just try and contain in the first half then come out fighting in the second?

Piss poor, apart from the two Glasgow teams all the rest are as bad / inconsistent as each other, no wonder the league is a two horse race.

[WesthillWanderersFC]

10 minutes ago, NEM said:

Starting games slowly seems to be a recurring theme.  We've been getting away with at home when teams are more likely to sit in and let us play our way into the game.  Less so away from Pittodrie

Yip.

I agreed with most of Jim Goodwin’s post match comments, but I disagreed with the “the poor start is not like us” comment. 
It IS like us. 
It needs rectified 

[DelMonte]

At least there is some sort of light at the end of the tunnel. There’s something to work with and hopefully a signing or two makes us a bit more solid. The defending of corners is mental. 

[Don_Corleone]

Last season we were garbage and boring to watch - after a while we were going into games pretty much resigned to watching boring football and probably not winning.

This season is unbelievably frustrating because we have some good players and can play excellent exciting football when we want to, but we can also be completely and utterly dreadful. 

As has been said, this league is so poor, and if we play to our capabilities we should be hammering most teams most weeks. 

Duk missed a couple of decent chances last night but he was outstanding overall - I'll be amazed if he doesn't go for millions within a season or two. Miovski had an off night and seems to be as up and down as the team generally. The midfield at times look completely anonymous and the game totally passes them by, and then at other times they look completely in control, spraying the passes around and carving teams open.  The defence is still a major source of worry - McCrorie put in one of the worst performances I've ever seen last night. Richardson looked marginally better than usual going forward (which isn't really a compliment) but still looks lost defensively. And we are dreadful at defending set pieces. The subs last night were a mixed bag too - I thought Kennedy at least got involved and was positive, Besoujin continues to disappoint out wide - I think he needs to be played centrally behind the strikers. Ramirez looked decent given he's hardly had any game time. Watkins looks like a lumbering old man now for some reason.

I was an advocate of the 352 because we looked so shambolic with a back 4, but I reckon we should change back as we don't really look any better.

Roos

McCrorie Stewart Scales Coulson

Ramadani Barron

Duk Clarkson Hayes

Miovski

[fine-n-dandy]

48 minutes ago, DelMonte said:

I genuinely do think there is some positives to take from that. They showed a bit of fight and on another day we score a heap. Miovski missing the pen and Duk missing 2 sitters isn’t the norm. 

This defence are a shambles however. Need to go back to a 4 and drop McCrorie for a game. 4-3-3.

I can half accept losing if the team have given it everything. Most of them did. I just don’t see the panic yet, it’s a new team. If there is the same problems come April then fair enough. 

If he wants to stick with a 3, maybe drop McCrorie for Milne. Can he be any worse? We don’t know but if he is, why is he here & not out on loan?

[Don Fonte]

Get the hun cunt McCrorie to fuck at the first opportunity.  His performance last night was fucking embarrassing.

[fine-n-dandy]

10 minutes ago, DelMonte said:

At least there is some sort of light at the end of the tunnel. There’s something to work with and hopefully a signing or two makes us a bit more solid. The defending of corners is mental. 

Worst I have seen defensively from an Aberdeen team, at set pieces especially. Everyone looks completely lost. A complete shambles. 
Corners shouldn’t be such a scary thing but with this defence it’s like we’ve conceded a fkn penalty it’s that much of an advantage to opponents 

[fine-n-dandy]

2 minutes ago, Don Fonte said:

Get the hun cunt McCrorie to fuck at the first opportunity.  His performance last night was fucking embarrassing.

As it was v Huns also

[sooth_stander]

44 minutes ago, WesthillWanderersFC said:

I think folk get too caught up blaming the formation sometimes.

I think the awful first 30 minutes was more to do with attitude, mentality, & intent. 
They pressed us high. We struggled with it. 
Easy way to stop that… Make them turn for 5-10 minutes with longer passes and they’ll stop pressing.

And an inability to defend corners is nothing to do with a back 3 or back 4. 

Remember the horrendous Tannadice performance was a back 4, and folk were suggesting a back 3.

And when are we going to talk about Kelle Roos & his inability to keep shots out the net. There’s been a good few he should’ve kept out but hasn’t.   
Partick, Motherwell & last night in the last 3-4 matches. 

But overall we played well for an hour & 100% should’ve at least drawn, if not won, but the team needs toughened up & made harder to score against in the January window. 
Offload a couple of wide players & bring in two defenders. 

3 at the back means the natural wingers we have in our squad, are either sitting on the bench or in the stand. So our width comes via the wing backs, one of whom is completely out of his depth at this level.

On friday night (although ultimately it didn't matter) when 3-0 up v Hibs, we could have hit them on the break with pace and width for the remainder of the game; Duncan and Kennedy tearing up the wings.

 

 

[Ernie McCracken]

16 minutes ago, fine-n-dandy said:

As it was v Huns also

And v Hibs at Easter Road. The missed handball and headed assist for Hibs 3rd.

[Crossbow]

19 minutes ago, fine-n-dandy said:

Worst I have seen defensively from an Aberdeen team, at set pieces especially. Everyone looks completely lost. A complete shambles. 
Corners shouldn’t be such a scary thing but with this defence it’s like we’ve conceded a fkn penalty it’s that much of an advantage to opponents 

Not the worst we have been defensively though we are too often pathetic - last season was comically and regularly bad at all elements of defending - this season we are only horrendous at some of them. The lack of a right back who can actually defend is somewhat tiresome however. Is Shay still a plumber?

[DelMonte]

10 minutes ago, Ernie McCracken said:

And v Hibs at Easter Road. The missed handball and headed assist for Hibs 3rd.

Good point. He’s had a terrible start to the season, probably been worse than the new signings who get a lot more stick. He’s all over the shop and needs a spell out the team.

[NEM]

46 minutes ago, Don Fonte said:

Get the hun cunt McCrorie to fuck at the first opportunity.  His performance last night was fucking embarrassing.

Spot on.  Extremely low tolerance for the cunt anyway after Seville but perfomances like last night should see the end of him.  He's an athlete, never a footballer in a million years.