Motherwell v Aberdeen (Premiership)

[Elgindon]

Didnt think there was that much between the sides.Should've learned a few things about ourselves,and 'Well. Few tweaks and a hopefully better performance on Wednesday

[OrlandoDon]

Not totally judging, games cancelled, training effected, and a bunch of new players. Away to the leagues form team for the most part in shit conditions.

Thought the keeper did nothing wrong, spilled a couple but possibly the conditions didn’t help. 
Morrison, not impressed, although didn’t stand out as a negative today. Milne def gets his place back.

McIntyre did ok and better than molloy, plus won headers. 

Afeez did nothing. Disappointing debut.

Geiger was prob the best of the new players, nothing fancy but a solid experienced pro in there, couple of nice passes. 

olusayna, out of position, can’t play right mid. Did little defensively which hurt us. I’d be tempted to play a combo of lobban Jensen and devlin at right back right mid for the rest of the season. 
Cameron was disappointing, no better than Armstrong today.

special mention for lazetic, worst I’ve seen him. Shocking.

[Bukta Bertie]

I'm reasonably happy with that second half. Obviously the new boys are not match fit and it'll take time for everyone to gel but yes there are definitely green shoots of improvement there. 

[OrlandoDon]

I will add a positive spin though, as mentioned before, def like a preseason game and we were not totally outplayed by one of the better teams in the league. Need games to gel, one down. Certainly a better performance than killie, and on a good day we get breaks in front of goal. Could have been a little fortunate and taken something today.

we didn’t look as ropey/vulnerable from corners or free kicks. Thought we were better in the air. Their first goal could have been better defended, space between Jensen and Morrison exploited, plus no help defensively on the right from olusaygna. Second goal, we’re three at the back, stretched, and chasing the game.

As mentioned, good learning experience in prep for the cup game. Geiger looked decent, hoping he just tired. Afeez gave little, certainly hope it’s not a sign of things to come. He did get better as the half went on I suppose.

id say we’d benefit from shinnie in there, leadership and care. Maybe those three moving forward? How long is he suspended?

We clearly don’t have a right mid, and we played one of the best left backs in the league. Today showed what’s not an option, and neither milanovic or bilalovic are the solution. I’d go with lobban there as a short term solution.

If that’s what lazetic now offers, hope we don’t see him again.

 

[dons8321]

14 minutes ago, OrlandoDon said:

I will add a positive spin though, as mentioned before, def like a preseason game and we were not totally outplayed by one of the better teams in the league. Need games to gel, one down. Certainly a better performance than killie, and on a good day we get breaks in front of goal. Could have been a little fortunate and taken something today.

we didn’t look as ropey/vulnerable from corners or free kicks. Thought we were better in the air. Their first goal could have been better defended, space between Jensen and Morrison exploited, plus no help defensively on the right from olusaygna. Second goal, we’re three at the back, stretched, and chasing the game.

As mentioned, good learning experience in prep for the cup game. Geiger looked decent, hoping he just tired. Afeez gave little, certainly hope it’s not a sign of things to come. He did get better as the half went on I suppose.

id say we’d benefit from shinnie in there, leadership and care. Maybe those three moving forward? How long is he suspended?

We clearly don’t have a right mid, and we played one of the best left backs in the league. Today showed what’s not an option, and neither milanovic or bilalovic are the solution. I’d go with lobban there as a short term solution.

If that’s what lazetic now offers, hope we don’t see him again.

 

Is Shinnie available for the cup game?

[The.Moog]

Well we’ve been worse, about all I can say about that. 

No surprise there though. New guys did ok, but all looked like folk who had hardly played this season. 

Never play Olusanya at right mid again, worse tracking back than Shady Mo.

2nd goal was another complete joke.

Motherwell just have better players all over the park though - Motherwell ffs. They sign Longelo as a full back, we have the likes of Jensen & Gyamfi and how much more did they cost than him? If that doesn’t highlight how abject our recruitment has been nothing will.

Bottom 6 now all but guaranteed. Cup likely gone Wednesday too, so season probably done mid Feb. There is no universe in which that is anything but completely unacceptable…

Edited 4 hours ago by The.Moog

[2stars]

One thing I will say about Aremu was he seemed disciplined to stay in front of centre half’s and didn’t go wandering- whether he actually managed to block the space and through balls, not so sure, but though the middle they generally didn’t play through the lines as much as the last time we played them

biggest problem was down our right

would not be averse to Lobban being on the right of 4-4-1-1 midfeld  as a stopgap as he can put a cross in and normally wants to be positive- Jensen just looks for the safe ball, but he wasn’t helped at all with Olusanya  defensively 

Geiger looked decent enough- but any better than Auchiche? Hopefully with games he will do well

Going forward from the wings Topi tries but frustrates and Olusanya makes us narrow- felt sorry again for Nisbet who is feeding off of scraps 

Cameron tried hard but thought he was poor- add Frame and Morrison to that. McIntyre looked better if the 2 chs 

Lazetic is a waste of a shirt

the goalie looks more comfortable with ball at his feet than Mitov

Will take the positives into Wednesday where that will be season saving game

[Bukta Bertie]

I should add I saw enough to suggest we do have a chance in the cup tie. Definitely. 

[OrlandoDon]

7 minutes ago, 2stars said:

One thing I will say about Aremu was he seemed disciplined to stay in front of centre half’s and didn’t go wandering- whether he actually managed to block the space and through balls, not so sure, but though the middle they generally didn’t play through the lines as much as the last time we played them

biggest problem was down our right

would not be averse to Lobban being on the right of 4-4-1-1 midfeld  as a stopgap as he can put a cross in and normally wants to be positive- Jensen just looks for the safe ball, but he wasn’t helped at all with Olusanya  defensively 

Geiger looked decent enough- but any better than Auchiche? Hopefully with games he will do well

Going forward from the wings Topi tries but frustrates and Olusanya makes us narrow- felt sorry again for Nisbet who is feeding off of scraps 

Cameron tried hard but thought he was poor- add Frame and Morrison to that. McIntyre looked better if the 2 chs 

Lazetic is a waste of a shirt

the goalie looks more comfortable with ball at his feet than Mitov

Will take the positives into Wednesday where that will be season saving game

Caught a glimpse of leven post match. Said afeez was struggling w fitness/cramp. Got better as the game went on and agree, played his position, but we didn’t see the physical player we’ve heard about.

geiger looks a more composed passer who will dictate play, aouchiche was more a 10 to me. I liked what I saw, he crawled up too but w games he may come good.

agree, thought the keeper was good, calmer an less eratic than mitov perhaps.

another game with very little width/wingers, which hurts us big time. If not lobban, I’d rather see bilalovic again, worked against livi. Frame didn’t push on much but that’s a tough ask for a new player in a new defense in a team w no confidence.

[OrlandoDon]

44 minutes ago, dons8321 said:

Is Shinnie available for the cup game?

And Milne? Cup game, I know he has one more game but is that league?

[dons8321]

3 hours ago, OrlandoDon said:

And Milne? Cup game, I know he has one more game but is that league?

Aye, back in my day a 3 week ban would have been served by now