Aberdeen vs Hibernian
Scots Prem
3:00pm Saturday October
Pittodrie
(Att: 13880)
Sam Cosgrove assisted nine-man Aberdeen make a late draw from Hibernian.
The Dons fell behind at the 48th minute when Ryan Porteous stabbed home from close variety and things got worse for the hosts when Curtis Main was shipped off moments later.
Aberdeen kept battling, however, and Cosgrove headed home to earn a share of the spoils with four minutes left before Lewis Ferguson was shown a red card in time.
Sky Sports Luke Shanley…
Both supervisors will be frustrated following this one for various reasons. Paul Heckingbottoms Hibernian have been in a prominent position, a target up and a man up but poor finishing has cost them two things.
Christian Doidge is your guilty party missing four one-on-ones with Aberdeen goalkeeper and captain Joe Lewis, who did his first occupation on every event.
Doidge united with large expectations awarded Hibernian paid a fair transfer fee for his services with their own standards, however, the prior Welsh basketball international failed to provide 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 and also the fans patience since Hibernians seven-and-a-half year wait to get a triumph in the Granite city goes on.
Derek McInnes assigned media responsibilities to his helper Tony Docherty, who said that the teams character and belief were right down to the supervisor. Aberdeen appeared to play with 10 guys and they needed to demonstrate their battling qualities after last weeks 5-0 thumping at Ibrox.
McInnes and Docherty felt neither Curtis Main nor Lewis Ferguson merited reddish cards because of their struggles on Stevie Mallan however that sense of injustice worked for the team since they pulled together to salvage a point.
Another Aberdeen boost was that the earlier than anticipated return of defender Scott McKenna out of harm. His existence will no doubt aid as Aberdeen seem to regroup and recover over the global break.
Motherwell moved to within three points of Ladbrokes Premiership leaders Celtic using a 2-0 win over St Mirren at Fir Park.
The Well, who are in third position were forced to wait patiently till the 39th minute before taking the lead.
James Scott was the guy to catch the goal, with the Scotland U21 forward grading a sublime curling shot into the top corner from the edge of the area.
Chris Long then added gloss to leave St Mirren with no win in six league matches.
St Johnstone stay bottom and without a win.
Joe Chalmers started 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.
The Saints took the lead six minutes when Matty Kennedy fired at a long-range strike.
Ross County rallied, though, and drew level to continue being fifth.
Elsewhere, the sole goal was scored by Chris Burke as Kilmarnock picked up a 1-0 win against Hearts at Tynecastle.
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