SENTINELCELTS

Morning, all.

It’s the last day of the Scottish transfer window today, and while it seems to have stretched on interminably, that is never long enough for our club to do the business required by the manager and the fans. I’ll start to deal with that mess and where we go from here tomorrow. For now, I’ll settle for discussing our latest match.

Aberdeen were the visitors, and their manager must be sorely disappointed in them. I don’t think they put in a single nasty challenge all night! After the visit from Falkirk at the weekend, another team who try to play the game the right way, it’s like a whole new ball game for us. Suddenly we aren’t having to jump out of the way of an assault any time we collect the ball, but I’m sure that normal service will be resumed when TFOD visit in just over two weeks. 

We got to see some of our latest signings too as Mheuka and Sørensen made debuts from the bench. The former, an 18yo from Chelsea, looks a real handful, and I reckon we will be talking about this lad a lot over the coming months. The latter looks quite handy, a useful addition to the engine room. Pity they’re both on loan!

We started off on the front foot, Hassan in particular setting the scene for his evening by getting the first cross in after only two minutes. Our first corner arrived shortly afterwards, and the visitors already knew they were in for a hard shift. Made harder still on the quarter hour mark, when Nygren shifted the ball to Duran on the D. A shimmy to make space for the shot was all he needed as he blasted the ball past the keeper. Hit almost as hard as his screamer two weeks ago, and there is little doubt that we have a player on our hands. 

We didn’t rest on our laurels, Nygren having a shot saved almost from the restart and Yang putting in a dangerous ball which Hassan couldn’t quite convert. Duran saw another effort saved, before Nygren scored his customary goal against the Dons. Another Hassan cross saw the ball break for him to fire home from 15 yards. 

Aberdeen made a rare foray up the pitch just on half time, hitting the bar from a corner, but Donovan slipped the loose ball clear to Duran who quickly fed Yang to break clear. He slotted home from the edge of the area to put us on a solid footing for the second half. 

Again, we started brightly with Hassan firing one over the bar from the restart. But we couldn’t keep up the momentum from the first half. This may have had something to do with the four HT subs made by Robinson to tighten things up. We created chances, forced plenty of corners, but it was only in the last fifteen minutes that we began to look dangerous again, with shots peppering the goal from Mheuka (Shim The Tim!), Baur, Forrest and Scales. 

It was a comfortable enough win, and a good performance. No complaints from me. Well, maybe one. MIB Nicholson, who did his level best to reinterpret the advantage rule to his own meaning. Another ref who lets us know what we can expect the minute he sets foot on the pitch. Willie Collum will have his work cut out with him in future.

Onto St Mirren on Saturday, an 8pm kick off, our 100% record still intact. Smashing. 

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Above article by BMCUWP