Report Index--> 1993-94--> All for 19931005 | ||||
<-Page | <-Team | Tue 05 Oct 1993 Aberdeen 0 Hearts 0 | Team-> | Page-> |
<-Srce | <-Type | Herald ------ Report | Type-> | Srce-> |
Sandy Clark | <-auth | James Traynor | auth-> | Hugh Williamson |
----- | ||||
1 | of 001 | ----- | L Premier | A |
Skill posted missing as mediocrity rulesJAMES TRAYNOR 6 Oct 1993 Aberdeen 0, Hearts 0. ONE of these matches the season will start. Hibernian, of course, would dispute this because they have now moved to the top of the division, but movements at Pittodrie last night were generally misguided. Hardly anyone was able to pass the ball with any accuracy and nobody seemed to know how to go around an opponent while taking the ball along at the same time. Hopefully, it will get better -- you see, now I'm doing it, living in hope, I mean -- and the supporters will be better rewarded. There was a distinctly defensive look about the team selected by Hearts' manager Sandy Clark, whose patience was probably being tried by the fact that his players have been finding it difficult to collect points away from home. Indeed, they went into last night's game without having beaten anyone on foreign soil. John Colquhoun and John Robertson, both of whom started the match against Dundee last Saturday, were on the bench beside Henry Smith, dropped after the club's game against Atletico Madrid a week ago. The match had not started well for Hearts who appeared uneasy whenever Aberdeen approached. However, Justin Fashanu provided hope when, after having controlled a pass inside from Tosh McKinlay, he thumped a shot from 20 yards. Eoin Jess had not recovered from the injury sustained against Motherwell and his place in Aberdeen's front line was taken by Andy Gibson, making his first top-team appearance of the season. It was unfortunate for him that genuine scoring opportunities were scarce as each side displayed a tendency to give the other the ball. Determined to improve on what he had seen, Paul Kane stepped forward to try his luck from a cut-back. The people who had made the effort and paid at the turnstiles were entitled to believe that the second half would be better, but first attempts to play the ball around were, if anything, worse than those already seen. Anxious to engineer a proper breakthrough, Aberdeen took off Gibson in 61 minutes and sent on Mixu Paatelainen to see if the powerful Finn could undermine Hearts' defence. ABERDEEN -- Snelders, McKimmie, Wright, Kane, McLeish, Irvine, Miller, Richardson, Gibson, Shearer, Connor. HEARTS -- Walker, Locke, McKinlay, McLaren, Hogg, Berry, Weir, Mackay, Fashanu, Leitch, Ferguson. Referee -- H Williamson (Renfrew) Taken from the Herald |
||||
<-Page | <-Team | Tue 05 Oct 1993 Aberdeen 0 Hearts 0 | Team-> | Page-> |