Match Thread Aberdeen 2 - 0 Frankfurt

[TerryMcDermott]

17 minutes ago, Frank Grimes said:

The commentator on my stream just said we haven’t lost to a German team since 1972

The fuck is he on about 

We haven’t lost to a German side at Pittodrie since Bertie Vogts and his Borussia Monchengladbach sausage molesters visited our fair city in 1972 I believe.  
 

This includes visits from Bayern Munich, Eintracht Frankfurt, Hamburg (twice) and Dynamo Berlin I believe. 

[milne_afc]

Great result. Disappointing campaign, although a fud hair away from progressing. Frustrating.

Back next year with renewed vigour and a couple of cups on the sideboard.

[DelMonte]

4 minutes ago, Big Hat Logan said:

Maybe time some posters stopped taking the easy option of moaning and constant negativity for a change? 

Doesn’t really matter. 

[TerryMcDermott]

2 minutes ago, TerryMcDermott said:

We really did show those Santa pumpers far far too much respect. 

I also have had not a single bad thing to say at any point about these clearly world class gentlemen footballers. 

[Big Hat Logan]

5 minutes ago, Sooper-hanz said:

Well summed up. Hopefully the players realise Sunday is going to a be a lot tougher. 

Especially with a domestic referee

[thurso]

4 minutes ago, TerryMcDermott said:

We really did show those Santa pumpers far far too much respect. 

I’m not sure we did pay them to much respect at home they played very defensive and away conditions played a big part in it. 

[G man]

6 minutes ago, fine-n-dandy said:

Just a pity we’re made to defend so deep & conceded in every game as well 🤣

 

Amazed we finished group on a zero GD though tbf. Says a lot for the goal scorers 👍

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[Footballs coming Rome]

4 minutes ago, fine-n-dandy said:

Just a pity we’re made to defend so deep & conceded in every game as well 🤣

 

Amazed we finished group on a zero GD though tbf. Says a lot for the goal scorers 👍

Difficult to defend like that for 90+mins without conceding. The style does leave us vulnerable. 

[fine-n-dandy]

1 minute ago, aberdeen1970 said:

To be honest I thought we'd take a couple of big beatings in this group, certainly on the road.  New squad, built late in the window, stuttering domestically. 

That we've been generally competitive overall and also have a couple of what if stories is far better than I expected. 

Before it all started & seeing the group draw, I expected us to finish 3rd on 6 points 🤣

beating the 4th ranked shite team twice. Just like Hearts did.

We finished with points I expected but not the way I expected. 
Can view it as positive but also some serious negs in there. Such as failing to beat the worst team in it. Our saving grace (as far as points went) was in the final dead rubber game v a reserve side 

[Dandys1983]

Fantastic result, I think Steven Craigan summed up us at the moment we are great when we can sit back and counter attack, but in the league we need to get a balance to break down sides. Hopefully this will come, I guess I have to get back behind Barry, 2 good wins hopefully a 3rd on Sunday 💪

[Chester Don]

Great great result and hopefully some momentum building.  That was an outstanding result against top opposition and the subs were spot on. Roll on Sunday, more optimism for all to build on now. 

[GAME OF BILLIONS]

Honestly, we could have topped this group. The team that gave us the most bother was HJK at Pittodrie and they are mediocre, their keeper was amazing that night. Round of 16 would have been tough against three of the second placed sides, but there's a lot of comparable sides in Conference League to the Dons.

Next season we'll do better. Just need to start winning in the bloody LEAGUE!

[TerryMcDermott]

3 minutes ago, thurso said:

I’m not sure we did pay them to much respect at home they played very defensive and away conditions played a big part in it. 

Fair. But for periods we played in fear of them instead of grabbing their antlers. 

[Bournemouth Gee]

Unusual finish from Sokler, you'd expect a low drilled shot from there.

[fine-n-dandy]

3 minutes ago, Footballs coming Rome said:

Difficult to defend like that for 90+mins without conceding. The style does leave us vulnerable. 

It does. Especially when the defence is far more consistently poor than good. Or made to look so by these tactics. We need far better group of defenders & mids in front of them for ‘Robsonball’ than we have. 

League form only makes it look worse as well.

[Sausage]

Congratulations on your victory! From Frankfurt's point of view, it's really a strange game. It's just a good thing that it was basically a test game under competitive conditions. Looking at the entire group phase, it's amazing that we made it into the knockout round with our performance. Basically, unfortunately you only failed because of HJK. That's really crazy, you had your chances against paok, and against us too, but the games against the Finns cost you too much. Now it's time for you to play against the Rangers on Sunday! I wish you much success. I haven't followed the rangers but I know it feels good to win a final against them. And they know how it feels to lose one. I think it's time they got used to it 😉 win this thing on Sunday and then focus on the league. Tell your coach that you should have more courage in the game. Whenever you showed that, you had your chances, even in the first leg! Take care! 

[strachanmcgheegoal]

14 minutes ago, Sooper-hanz said:

3 draws and a win, and we should really have beaten PAOK at home. Decent. 

No it was 0 out of 7 two hours ago and reason to Chuck ourselves off the Dee bridge apparently.

[GAME OF BILLIONS]

8 minutes ago, TerryMcDermott said:

We haven’t lost to a German side at Pittodrie since Bertie Vogts and his Borussia Monchengladbach sausage molesters visited our fair city in 1972 I believe.  
 

This includes visits from Bayern Munich, Eintracht Frankfurt, Hamburg (twice) and Dynamo Berlin I believe. 

Gladbach 70s side was some team, min. Hennes Weisweiler was some manager.

[Snelders Snottters 89]

Polvara must be considered as a starter on Sun. 

[DodgyKeeper]

16 minutes ago, fine-n-dandy said:

🤷 I’d prefer funds were used more productively. Managerial pay off before January. That is positive 🤷

One win against Frankfurt reserves hasn’t changed that

You're absolutely fuckin brutal.

[NorfolkDandy]

2 minutes ago, aberdeen1970 said:

To be honest I thought we'd take a couple of big beatings in this group, certainly on the road.  New squad, built late in the window, stuttering domestically. 

That we've been generally competitive overall and also have a couple of what if stories is far better than I expected. 

Agreed

Sadly, the attention seekers / liars(?) on here might not agree with you

I'm nowhere near being a BR fandan as things stand, but collectively we should be capable of enjoying that result 

SF

 

 

 

 

[Helmet]

Fantastic result, well done Barry and the players.

Let’s see what the cup final brings.

[BaldurBett]

hang on, is this right:

huns are playing in seville tonight, where they were last beaten in the europa final against Eintracht Frankfurt, who Aberdeen beat 2-0 tonight with a team featured in the follow follow thread "Sheep resting most of team" ? a few days before hampden?

a couple of leg breaks against betis for sevco, and this is right up there with the funniest aberdeen days i can remember 

[fine-n-dandy]

So they reckon (before costs) we’ve made €6.1m from Europe this season.

If only we would try to make it to the groups next season 

[HaarDon]

5 minutes ago, Sausage said:

Congratulations on your victory! From Frankfurt's point of view, it's really a strange game. It's just a good thing that it was basically a test game under competitive conditions. Looking at the entire group phase, it's amazing that we made it into the knockout round with our performance. Basically, unfortunately you only failed because of HJK. That's really crazy, you had your chances against paok, and against us too, but the games against the Finns cost you too much. Now it's time for you to play against the Rangers on Sunday! I wish you much success. I haven't followed the rangers but I know it feels good to win a final against them. And they know how it feels to lose one. I think it's time they got used to it 😉 win this thing on Sunday and then focus on the league. Tell your coach that you should have more courage in the game. Whenever you showed that, you had your chances, even in the first leg! Take care! 

You seem very knowledgable about us and the fact it's THE Rangers and not Rangers (coming from a foreigner).

Hmm.

 

[redstrummer]

it's great work from Sokler the way way he anticipates the pass and the pace he has , great pass too from Dante

[afc_blockhead]

1 minute ago, DodgyKeeper said:

You're absolutely fuckin brutal.

Hes either a depressive lonely attention seeker or a very obvious troll.

Actually.. FND is both.

He once created an account of a fake girlfriend to back him up on threads. Thats how lonely and pathetic he is 😄

[JamieMT]

Goal aside the first half was a tough watch. Second half we were so much improved. Strong in defence and dangerous going forward. Very impressive collective effort and our goals were a thing of beauty.

Full credit to all the players and Barry Robson tonight. Let's make this a perfect week and pump the Huns on Sunday.

[Rico1903]

7 minutes ago, Sausage said:

Congratulations on your victory! From Frankfurt's point of view, it's really a strange game. It's just a good thing that it was basically a test game under competitive conditions. Looking at the entire group phase, it's amazing that we made it into the knockout round with our performance. Basically, unfortunately you only failed because of HJK. That's really crazy, you had your chances against paok, and against us too, but the games against the Finns cost you too much. Now it's time for you to play against the Rangers on Sunday! I wish you much success. I haven't followed the rangers but I know it feels good to win a final against them. And they know how it feels to lose one. I think it's time they got used to it 😉 win this thing on Sunday and then focus on the league. Tell your coach that you should have more courage in the game. Whenever you showed that, you had your chances, even in the first leg! Take care! 

Nice work. 

[CCB III]

When we are able to keep the ball for a reasonable period of time and mix that with quick balls over the top we are a hard team to play. 
 

Good result tonight, and gives us all a nice feeling heading in to Sunday. If we can do that tonight against them, no reason we can't do it at Hampden. 
 

Barron and Shaymo were very good, as was Polvara.
 

Should give them every confidence.