Aberdeen vs Hibernian
Scots Prem
3:00pm Saturday October
Pittodrie
(Att: 13880)
Sam Cosgrove helped nine-man Aberdeen earn a late draw from Hibernian at Pittodrie.
The Dons fell behind at the 48th minute when Ryan Porteous stabbed home when Curtis Main was shipped off minutes, and things got worse for the hosts later.
Aberdeen kept battling, though, and Cosgrove headed home to make a share of the spoils with four minutes left before Lewis Ferguson was likewise shown a red card in additional time.
Sky Sports Luke Shanley…
Both supervisors will be frustrated following this one for various reasons. Paul Heckingbottoms Hibernian have been in a dominant position, a guy up and a target up but poor has cost both points.
Christian Doidge is your guilty party overlooking four one-on-ones with Aberdeen goalkeeper and captain Joe Lewis, who did his first job on every event.
Doidge joined with large expectations awarded Hibernian paid a reasonable transfer fee for his services by their own criteria, however, the former Welsh basketball global failed to deliver yet again.
He missed three good chances in the opening league game of the year against St Mirren. This result will not have helped his optimism or the fans patience since the seven-and-a-half year wait for a win in the Granite city of Hibernian goes on.
Derek McInnes delegated media responsibilities to his assistant Tony Docherty, who explained that the teams personality and belief were right down to the supervisor. Aberdeen appeared to play with 10 guys and they needed to clearly demonstrate their qualities after a weeks 5-0 thumping.
McInnes and Docherty felt Curtis Main nor Lewis Ferguson merited red cards to their challenges on Stevie Mallan however sense of injustice worked for the team as they pulled together to salvage a point.
Another Aberdeen increase was that the earlier than expected return of defender Scott McKenna from injury. His presence will no doubt assist as Aberdeen seem to regroup and recover over the global break.
Motherwell proceeded into three points of Ladbrokes Premiership leaders Celtic win over St Mirren in Fir Park.
The Well, that are in third place were forced to wait before the minute.
With all the Scotland U21 forward grading a sublime curling shot into the top corner by the edge of the area, james Scott was the guy to grab the goal.
Chris Long then added gloss to the scoreline in the 86th minute to depart St Mirren with no win in six league matches.
St Johnstone remain bottom of the table, and with no win.
Joe Chalmers opened the scoring for County in the 10th minute after reversing Ross Stewarts cross.
St Johnstone equalised after 34 minutes when a lovely ball in behind found Stevie May, who slotted home beyond Ross Laidlaw.
The Saints took the lead six minutes when Matty Kennedy fired at a strike.
Ross County drew level to stay fifth, and rallied, though.
Elsewhere, the only goal was scored by Chris Burke since Kilmarnock picked up a win against Hearts.
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