absolute sickner as the Dons lose two late goals
Celtic 4 Commons (1), Mulgrew (69), Hooper (87), Samaras (90+4)
Aberdeen 3 Vernon (45), Magennis (53, 60)
This was an extremely difficult defeat to take.
The Dons were cruelly denied at Celtic Park as an injury time goal gave Celtic a 4-3 win after the Dons had lead 3-1. Aberdeen had a nightmare start as they fell behind after only 12 seconds without touching the ball. Aberdeen didn’t let that setback affect them and late in the half they deservedly levelled through Vernon. Magennis, who was outstanding all afternoon, brilliantly forced his way forward, fed the ball to Vernon and the striker made no mistake.
Craig Brown’s tactics were spot on and Aberdeen were then in dream land after an hour when a double from Magennis had them 3-1 ahead. The first was a superb strike, the second one he deflected a Rae shot into the net.
Celtic then threw everything at the Dons, aided and abetted by Aberdeen being penalised for every challenge. The referee appeared to be influenced by a frustrated home support. There was hardly a bad challenge in the match yet Aberdeen ended up with five players cautioned. Just when it looked like Celtic had run out of ideas, Mulgrew scored after his shot took a horrible deflection past Langfield who had no chance. The Dons keeper up to that point had been excellent.
Then, three minutes from time, Hooper scrambled the ball over the Dons line after Aberdeen failed to deal with an aerial onslaught.
Four minutes into injury time Anderson was penalised and booked following a great challenge. From the resulting free kick Samaras scored with an overhead kick from five yards that left the Dons dazed and bewildered.
RedWeb | match report please click here
Aberdeen (4-4-2) : Langfield, Shaughnessy, Magennis, Hughes, Anderson, Reynolds, Jack, Rae, McGinn, Vernon Hayes.
Post Match |
The managers press conference please click here
Craig Brown speaking to RedTV please click here
Russell Anderson on RedTV please click here
Josh Magennis on RedTV please click here
Quotes from the press room please click here
