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Trivia

  • Boruc out "injured" with a groin strain.
  • Mark Brown in goals
  • First time we've condeded four goals to a team (exc Huns) for years.
  • Second time this season we've lost 4-2 in the SPL!


Quick Review

Here we go again, that's it we've lost most of our advantage, and are now only two points in front of Der Hun, and what a way to lose that advantage going down 4-2 to Aberdeen. Credit to Aberdeen who had few chances at goal yet still scored four against us. Simply illustrates where our real problems are. Two goals scored is usually a good way to win games, yet we still squandered it all. We came from behind twice to even things up only to be outdone still by Aberdeen.

Very poor defensive work, and Boruc (out injured with a groin strain incurred in warming up before the game) will feel he should be okay to return with no problems. McManus was very poor and has been too easily a scapegoat. The whole defensive element of the team has to be looked at again. A continuing problem.

Good work by McGeady to get us the goals, and some industrious work by Scott Brown. All coming to nought though.

Need to do better!!!


Teams

Aberdeen: Langfield, Foster, Severin, Diamond, Mulgrew, Duff, McDonald, Kerr, Aluko (Maguire 74), Miller, Mackie
Subs Not Used: Bossu, Wright, Vidal, De Visscher, Mair, Considine
Booked: Kerr, Mackie
Goals: McDonald 24, Duff 31, Diamond 75, 78

Celtic
Mark Brown
Hinkel, McManus, Caldwell, Robson,
Nakamura, Scott Brown, Hartley, McGeady,
Samaras (Vennegoor of Hesselink 67), McDonald,

Subs Not Used:- Misun, Loovens, Mizuno, Crosas, O'Dea, Caddis.

Booked: McGeady, Scott Brown.
Goals: Scott Brown 25, McDonald 73

Att: 18,100
Ref: D McDonald


Articles

Aberdeen manager Jimmy Calderwood:
"It was a fabulous advertisement for Scottish football and it is a massive boost for us to beat the champions.
"We took a lot of flak round about September/October when we were bottom of the league. "But we've got the youngest team in the SPL with a lot of new boys and, all credit to them, they have done wonderfully well to turn it around. "I thought we deserved to win the game, we are now in third and there's no reason why we can't keep the momentum going."

Celtic manager Gordon Strachan:
"The consolation is that my team played well, made chances, showed great determination and great character, while the two goals we scored were absolutely fantastic.
"If they play like that for the rest of the season, I will be happy. If they defend like that at set-plays, I will be a worried man.
"The thing that let us down is that they scored four goals from four free-kicks and we have to see if there is a common denominator there and eradicate it.
"I feel sorry for Mark Brown, because he has not had a save to make and has not been able to show his ability."



Pictures

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MOTM v Aberdeen, Scott Brown


Stats

ABERDEEN v CELTIC

Possession
45% 55%
Shots on target
6 8
Shots off target
2 6
Corners
5 9
Fouls
10 17



Strachan slams Hoops defenders

19 January 2009
Provided by: The Irish Examiner

Celtic manager Gordon Strachan admitted his side will have to defend better after conceding four goals in a surprise defeat to Aberdeen.
The Dons capitalised on the defensive frailties of their opponents to clinch a 4-2 win at Pittodrie – their first victory over the Hoops since 2001.
Strachan told his defenders to up their game if they have any intention of retaining their Clydesdale Bank Premier League championship.
He said: "If you don’t defend well then you have to expect to lose. The way we defended in open play was more than adequate but you can’t win any game if you let in four goals from free-kicks.
"We will have to go and analyse our defending at free-kicks because there has got to be a common denominator if you concede four times from set-pieces.
"It was a bit windy today and we will have to look at whether we are doing the right thing in those types of conditions. In some conditions the way we have set up may have worked but it has not worked, that’s for sure.
"I know you still have to deliver the ball well and get a head on it but we are hoping that teams have to work harder to score against us.
"In free play Mark Brown has not had a save to make, which is astonishing. It was a strange and exciting game and I’m sure everybody enjoyed it, apart from the Celtic supporters.
"But we can console ourselves with the fact that it was one of our better performances over the last couple of weeks."
The Celtic boss admitted he was baffled when referee Dougie McDonald awarded Aberdeen’s third goal – a Zander Diamond header from a Charlie Mulgrew delivery - because he believed the official had already blown for a foul.
Strachan added: "Automatically everybody thought it was a free-kick. That was the indication through his body language.
"Jimmy [Calderwood, Aberdeen’s manager] also thought that. Everybody heard that the whistle was blown early before the ball went into the back of the net. I don’t know whether it was confirmed on TV.
"We expected a free-kick but it hasn’t been given so we just have to get on with it."
Delighted Aberdeen boss Calderwood paid tribute to Mulgrew’s deadly deliveries from set-pieces after his side’s shock win.
Diamond earned most of the plaudits for his winning brace but it was Mulgrew’s crosses for both goals that most impressed Calderwood.
He said: "Charlie has an unbelievable left foot. It was two wonderful free-kicks from him.
"Charlie puts the balls into the box with so much pace it makes it very difficult to defend. It is a massive weapon for us, especially as we have guys like Diamond, Miller, Severin and McDonald who are all good in the air."
However, Calderwood played down comparisons between Mulgrew and Celtic’s free-kick expert Shunsuke Nakamura.
He added: "Nakamura has been taking free-kicks for years and Charlie has only been here a few months. He has got a couple of years to catch up on Nakamura yet.
"He works on his free-kicks and we know that when he is on form he will put the ball in the right area for our players to go and attack it."
© Irish Examiner, 2009. Thomas Crosbie Media, TCH
The Irish Examiner

Diamond gives Celtic a rough time.

19 January 2009
Provided by: Irish Times
SCOTTISH PREMIER LEAGUE: Aberdeen 4 Celtic 2:CELTIC’S DEFENSIVE deficiencies were brutally exposed at Aberdeen yesterday but the controversy surrounding the hosts’ crucial third goal will get just as much attention.
The Celtic coaches Garry Pendrey and Neil Lennon accosted the referee, Dougie McDonald, as the teams left the field at full-time, adamant that the official had blown his whistle before a Zander Diamond header hit the net.
Jimmy Calderwood, the Aberdeen manager, agreed with his opposite number, Gordon Strachan, that the whistle had sounded. Celtic believe the referee had chosen to give them a free-kick after a tussle between Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink and Diamond, before changing his mind.
But he may in fact have been poised to award Aberdeen a penalty only to have second thoughts when the goal was scored.
Television pictures produced little evidence to support either theory.
What was clear here is that Celtic may be worse off without Artur Boruc than with their wayward goalkeeper after all. The error-prone Poland international was injured in the warm-up and therefore a spectator.
All four Aberdeen goals emanated from set plays but it was the third one on which Strachan spoke at greatest length.
Such decisions will matter little to Rangers, who have now cut Celtic’s lead at the summit of the Scottish Premier League to two points.
The referee had denied a seemingly legitimate Aberdeen penalty claim, Scott Brown tripping Gary McDonald, by the time the latter put his team in front. Stuart Duff was the provider, a sublime cross dropping right to his fellow midfielder’s head, although McDonald is due credit for a composed finish.
Celtic’s response was as swift as it had appeared unlikely. Within 30 seconds, brilliant wing play from Aiden McGeady opened up the Aberdeen defence; Scott Brown prodded home the winger’s cross from eight yards.
Duff ghosted in at Celtic’s right-back position before slamming Mark Kerr’s pass beyond Mark Brown to hand Aberdeen a well-merited interval lead. Celtic responded in the second period though, their dominance enforced by Scott McDonald’s conversion of a Barry Robson cross. General bemusement proved the order of the day thereafter, even if the first of two expert free-kicks from Charlie Mulgrew should not be ignored.
Fresh from heading his team back in front, Diamond capitalised on another Mulgrew delivery by bundling home at the back post. Mark Brown, while not afforded a chance to dirty his gloves from open play, had twice and fatally failed to command his area.
Guardian Service
ABERDEEN: Langfield, Foster, Severin, Diamond, Mulgrew, Duff, McDonald, Kerr, Aluko (Maguire 74), Miller, Mackie. Subs not used: Bossu, Wright, Vidal, De Visscher, Mair, Considine. Booked: Kerr, Mackie.
CELTIC: Mark Brown, Hinkel, McManus, Caldwell, Robson, Nakamura, Scott Brown, Hartley, McGeady, Samaras (Vennegoor of Hesselink 67), McDonald. Subs not used: Misun, Loovens, Mizuno, Crosas, O’Dea, Caddis. Booked: McGeady, Scott Brown.
Referee: D McDonald (Scotland).
(c) 2009, The Irish Times.
Irish Times



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