Dons v FCSB

[RicoS321]

4 hours ago, Panda said:

I don't think they're as good as Celtic. I think this is akin to going to Ibrox. They're the favourites, clearly have threats, but are beatable.

At the moment, I'd go

Mitov

Devlin Dorrington Knoester Shinnie

Nilsen Clarkson

Polvara

Milanovic Sokler Keskinen

Dorrington because he's more comfortable on the ball than Milne. Polvara because Aouchiche I don't think is a guy suited to counter attacking football (happy to be proved wrong). Sokler far more mobile than Yengi.

 

They're not as good as Celtic, but their number 9 is better than anything Celtic have in that area, which is crucial (unless he just had a one-off brilliant game). 

I'd go with your line up but with Milne in. Dorrington has looked shaky since returning, and last night he was poor on the ball, especially his distribution. Milne took the ball in difficult areas several times last night and walked calmly away with it. He's a good footballer, just needs to work on his positioning and rashness. 

[BigAl]

Not much to add that hasn't already been said.

It was never going to be an easy straightforward task against a team that reached the last sixteen of the competition last season. We are still in the tie and everything to play for next Thursday.

If some of the play acting, badgering the referee last night was bad, can only imagine what they could be like at home with the crowd behind them. Can only hope for a strong referee that isn't easily conned or influenced.

Far too early for me to give any great thought to potential line up as got home at 1.40am this morning and am royally fucked.

[RicoS321]

31 minutes ago, BigAl said:

Far too early for me to give any great thought to potential line up as got home at 1.40am this morning and am royally fucked

I'm surprised you got into Pittodrie before then. The queues outside at kickoff were ridiculous. I can only assume something went wrong with ticketing. We were nearly ten minutes late getting in. 

Agree about their pathetic play acting. What was very frustrating was that Nilsen did nothing as Captain to counteract it. For a guy who is normally very vocal, he seemed to hide as Captain (his all round play was fine). When Milanovic got booked for picking up the ball to take a throw-in, he should have been right in the ref's face, and should have ensured that we didn't give the ball back to them (the guy basically kicked it out under pressure and then pretended it was because their player was down). It was a real missed opportunity to get our players worked up and give them a lift.

[BigAl]

We were raging about that incident as well they had had possession for at least 45 seconds prior to going back into their own half and as he was closed down he chose to kick it out and point at their player that was down. It was literally right in front of us and when booking Milanovic the clown in black pointed back up the pitch as he booked him, so I guess the booking was for the alleged foul that they had played on from 

As for us giving them the ball back, fuck that, cheating cunts 

[Jute]

10 minutes ago, BigAl said:

We were raging about that incident as well they had had possession for at least 45 seconds prior to going back into their own half and as he was closed down he chose to kick it out and point at their player that was down. It was literally right in front of us and when booking Milanovic the clown in black pointed back up the pitch as he booked him, so I guess the booking was for the alleged foul that they had played on from 

As for us giving them the ball back, fuck that, cheating cunts 

From TV it looked like Ref was saying it was for the original challenge rather than the bit with the ball at the throw in. 
 

Seen suggestions that the delays at gates were down to security patting everyone down. 

[BigAl]

2 minutes ago, Jute said:

From TV it looked like Ref was saying it was for the original challenge rather than the bit with the ball at the throw in. 
 

Seen suggestions that the delays at gates were down to security patting everyone down. 

Aye that's what we thought Jute 

We were at the ground about 7.15 and walked straight in with no steward "patting" us down 

[RicoS321]

5 minutes ago, Jute said:

Seen suggestions that the delays at gates were down to security patting everyone down

Nobody was being patted down when we went in, just the usual bag checks, and they wouldn't have had the staff on to do so I wouldn't have thought. 

Edit: I even asked to be patted down, and they refused.

Edited Friday at 09:13 by RicoS321

[Elgindon]

There was a lot more patting down/checking than usual,possibly for pyro.Seen folk mention that their footwear was being checked.

  Some good and bad viewing last night,got to allow bedding in time(again),though some of the usual muppets itching to stick the boot in already.

  Hope we stuff this shower of shite next week

[tom_widdows]

15 minutes ago, Elgindon said:

Seen folk mention that their footwear was being checked.

Good to see the late 90s/ early 2000s  Paramount & Ministry bouncers still getting a gig