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Aberdeen fans on how their team have been heroes. This is after being down 2:0 against 10 men. New striker scored late. Amazing what happens when a bit of service comes in. Yengi up against it but also compliments for some of his positioning tonight. There are games where the strikers get nothing passed to them and the coach doesn't want them to leave position to seek the ball. Sounds like Iredale at Aalborg. I wouldn't mind a striker with less confidence being told to seek 10 touches in the first 10min to get into things.
 
JS96 said:
Aberdeen fans on how their team have been heroes. This is after being down 2:0 against 10 men. New striker scored late. Amazing what happens when a bit of service comes in. Yengi up against it but also compliments for some of his positioning tonight. There are games where the strikers get nothing passed to them and the coach doesn't want them to leave position to seek the ball. Sounds like Iredale at Aalborg. I wouldn't mind a striker with less confidence being told to seek 10 touches in the first 10min to get into things.
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Good summation, JS!

Informative!

Keep them coming.
 
JS96 said:
Australia should've buried the game. 2-3 great chances. Korea controlled the game until we scored but were pretty tame in the second half.

I still watch the replay and I can see why the penalty was given but Son starts his fall forward before contact and Miller going across him makes it bad. Had we just killed the ball a few sequences earlier it changes the whole butterfly effect.
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I can't bring myself to rewatch games like this, JS!

I didn't think we were that good against Uzbekistan either.

I thought the future for Aus was bleak after these games, until Grazor alerted me to all the whiz gen. I hadn't subscribed to Paramount at that stage since Fox gave up the football rights.
 
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Nick Milanovic started, recieved a yellow card and was subbed in the 59th minutr, Kuisni Yengi started and was subbed at half time in a 2-2 First Leg Draw with FCSB (Romania) in a Europa League Qualifying Final. Nick Suman was an unused sub for Aberdeen.

Martin Boyle started and was subbed in the 80th minute, Jack Iredale started and was subbed in the 59th minute for Hibernian in a 1-2 First Leg loss to Legia Warszawa in a Conference League Qualifying Final.

Kasey Bos was not in the squad for Mainz in a 1-2 First Leg loss to Rosenborg (Norway) in a Conference League Qualifying Final.

Anthony Carter was not in the squad for Santa Clara in a 1-2 First Leg loss to the Shamrock Rovers (Ireland) in a Conference League Qualifying Final.

Bailey Wright was not in the squad for the Lion City Sailors in the ASEAN Club Championship.
 
Decentric said:
I can't bring myself to rewatch games like this, JS!

I didn't think we that good against Uzbekistan either.

I thought the future for Aus was bleak after these games, until Grazor alerted me to all the whiz gen. I hadn't subscribed to Paramount at that stage since Fox gave up the football rights.
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I actually feared the way we threw that game away was the breaking point for the squad. Evidently under Arnold it was part of it. We walked the next qualifying round against minnows but there were underlying issues with Arnold maintaining his reach and the players responding.
 
JS96 said:
I actually feared the way we threw that game away was the breaking point for the squad. Evidently under Arnold it was part of it. We walked the next qualifying round against minnows but there were underlying issues with Arnold maintaining his reach and the players responding.
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The real question is has anyone ever re watched Iran 97?

I think Arnold's management style has a time limit on it for him in any situation. Because building the personal relationships is so key to his style, there would come a point where you can't keep investing that much as squads turnover.
Managers like Ange and Popa intentionally keep a distance, so don't have that mental load in the same way.
 
Cunningstunt said:
The real question is has anyone ever re watched Iran 97?

I think Arnold's management style has a time limit on it for him in any situation. Because building the personal relationships is so key to his style, there would come a point where you can't keep investing that much as squads turnover.
Managers like Ange and Popa intentionally keep a distance, so don't have that mental load in the same way.
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I've watched 97 sort of fast forwarded. Still get the same impression of how we should've scored so many more. The first Iran goal was offside.

Arnold's tenure had to end after the Asian Cup.
 
JS96 said:
I've watched 97 sort of fast forwarded. Still get the same impression of how we should've scored so many more. The first Iran goal was offside.

Arnold's tenure had to end after the Asian Cup.
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Are you old enough to have watched it live in 97 JS or watched it first time later on? Not sure I could do it.
 
Cunningstunt said:
Are you old enough to have watched it live in 97 JS or watched it first time later on? Not sure I could do it.
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I was 9 years old. I cried when Johnny Warren said he couldn't speak anymore. I felt like armageddon. I was well aware of what had just happened and the following June was not pleasant. Even the tape recording of the home leg we just looked poised. We didn't tape the return leg so it was a different time that after 2 days it was off the news cycle and you didn't have socials churning the story.
 
JS96 said:
I was 9 years old. I cried when Johnny Warren said he couldn't speak anymore. I felt like armageddon. I was well aware of what had just happened and the following June was not pleasant. Even the tape recording of the home leg we just looked poised. We didn't tape the return leg so it was a different time that after 2 days it was off the news cycle and you didn't have socials churning the story.
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I was watching it live on TV in Sweden, but was unable to watch the last 15-20 minutes. I can't remember whether it was 2-0 or 2-1 when I had to stop watching. I rang a mate back in Australia about half an hour after the game finished to find out the score, he was so shatttered he could hardly speak. I was equally distraught when he told me.

I remember reading an article a few years later in the mainstream press (it might have been in the magazine section of a Saturday paper) where the match was described as the most heart-breaking event ever in Australian sport. Not just in Australian football, but all Australian sport. And I have to agree.
 
Keeper66 said:
I was watching it live on TV in Sweden, but was unable to watch the last 15-20 minutes. I can't remember whether it was 2-0 or 2-1 when I had to stop watching. I rang a mate back in Australia about half an hour after the game finished to find out the score, he was so shatttered he could hardly speak. I was equally distraught when he told me.

I remember reading an article a few years later in the mainstream press (it might have been in the magazine section of a Saturday paper) where the match was described as the most heart-breaking event ever in Australian sport. Not just in Australian football, but all Australian sport. And I have to agree.
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It had it all. The net being pulled down and rumour or maybe even fact a player shouted 'we're going to France.'

We were absolutely battering them. There is the odd documentary or interview and something about being too high in defence and that's where their second goal came from.
 


Aberdeen highlights. Every significant sequence shown here. So let me get this straight, Aberdeen fans were pissed at Yengi not scoring from that very first cross? Maybe Cahill just gets to it. Absolute delusion to think someone is a terrible attacker not getting to a cross nowhere near them.
 
JS96 said:
Aberdeen fans on how their team have been heroes. This is after being down 2:0 against 10 men. New striker scored late. Amazing what happens when a bit of service comes in. Yengi up against it but also compliments for some of his positioning tonight. There are games where the strikers get nothing passed to them and the coach doesn't want them to leave position to seek the ball. Sounds like Iredale at Aalborg. I wouldn't mind a striker with less confidence being told to seek 10 touches in the first 10min to get into things.
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New striker didn't make the squad I'm pretty sure. Bloke who scored is in his third season with Aberdeen.

Slovenian not Serbian ;)
 
Cunningstunt said:

Would be some good news if he played on the weekend.
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Soon probably means missing the international window. North America is where it's at for him I'd say. Yet the Sapsford absence is annoying for the NZ window. We've got to try some others up top.
 
onedaywinners... said:
New striker didn't make the squad I'm pretty sure. Bloke who scored is in his third season with Aberdeen.

Slovenian not Serbian ;)
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You don't say. Well, that's Yengi down to third in the pecking order I think.
 
Quick glance. Sokler has 3 goals in 49 Aberdeen games. Yengi should hopefully get a few more by Christmas.
 
Elder starting. So Popa, you gonna pick Elder and Bos next window or contradict yourself and pick someone in pre season who'll just do the same predictable first man crosses and back passes?
 
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