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Football makes its mark in history in many ways. The most enduring are | :00:46. | :00:56. | |
etched in silver. The last trophy for Aberdeen was 18 years ago. A | :00:57. | :01:05. | |
European cup winners cup. For the titles. Scottish league cups. | :01:06. | :01:13. | |
Scottish cups. Then nothing but pain and disappointment. 20 years ago, | :01:14. | :01:20. | |
Inverness Caley Thistle did not even exist, against all the odds, a new | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
team was formed, fighting from the bottom to the top, making their mark | :01:27. | :01:33. | |
as giant killers. Derek McGuinness is firing up Aberdeen once again. | :01:34. | :01:44. | |
Passionate and exciting. Hoping to reshape history. John Hughes is | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
determined to lead Inverness Caley Thistle to their greatest ever | :01:52. | :02:04. | |
achievement, with a never say die team. Who will make their mark | :02:05. | :02:14. | |
today? Both teams searching for silverware. Celtic Park is the | :02:15. | :02:24. | |
venue. Winning would be a special way to mark 20 years in existence | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
for Inverness Caley Thistle. 1995 since Aberdeen at last put something | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
in their trophy cabinet. They are the favourites at this time around. | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
Hampden Stadium is a work in progress ahead of the Commonwealth | :02:44. | :02:53. | |
Games. Unable to host cup finals, the Scottish Cup final be here in | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
May, the league cup final is just 30 minutes away. The league cup will be | :02:58. | :03:08. | |
won and lost for the 68th time. It has produced tales of the unexpected | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
in recent years, Saint Mirren and Kilmarnock the latest names to | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
appear on the trophy. Who will be next? We will know soon. The match | :03:21. | :03:28. | |
is live on the BBC. I am joined by men who hold legendary status with | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
the club is contesting today, Willie Miller and Charlie Christie. First, | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
the all-important cup final team news. Mark McGhee is alongside Liam | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
McLeod. We should get straight to the team | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
news. There is a blow to Aberdeen. Peter Pawlett has been so | :03:54. | :04:02. | |
influential and misses out. It is a blow for us all. I was | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
looking forward to seeing him on this stage. A great young player, | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
and a big this appointment. -- disappointment. | :04:14. | :04:20. | |
Somebody had to miss out for Inverness, John Hughes delivered the | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
news to Aaron Dorans. He does make the bench. It is a tactical | :04:25. | :04:35. | |
decision. Congested midfield, try to stop Aberdeen too much possession. | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
Danny Devine takes the place of Warren, suspended. Aberdeen are | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
looking to win a trophy for the first time since 1995. A first ever | :04:49. | :05:00. | |
major final four Caley Thistle. If we are to believe the bookmakers, | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
you could just about hand Aberdeen the trophy. But things do not always | :05:05. | :05:12. | |
work out the logical way. The thoughts of our pundits. A big blow | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
for a player who has came through the Aberdeen system, and they blew | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
to the team, because of the way he has been playing for them. | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
Peter has had injury problems throughout his career. But it looked | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
as if he would be OK for the final. For him personally, it must be | :05:34. | :05:41. | |
really disappointing. And he has been instrumental in getting this | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
team to the cup final. John Hughes will not be distraught. But an | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
eyebrow raised regarding the Caley Thistle line-up, Aaron Dorans is not | :05:53. | :06:02. | |
in the starting 11. It is to keep the game narrower, I think. He will | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
be thinking of the 1-0 game at Pittodrie. The midfield was | :06:08. | :06:16. | |
congested and that suited Thistle. Is part of the problem the fact that | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
many people have handed Aberdeen the trophy already? That comes with the | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
success, the relative success they have had already this season. | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
Expectation gets higher and higher. You can see the with huge support | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
they have brought today, there is a lot of expectation that they will | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
lift the trophy. So far the players this season have done very well in | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
dealing with that pressure. There is a Caley Thistle connection in the | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
Aberdeen team. We spoke to a trio who would love to get the better of | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
their old team. Aberdeen was once the place to be in | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
terms of Scottish football silverware. Now former Inverness | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
Caley Thistle players are planning their own masterpiece. | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
There is no point in settling for just a semifinal. You want to win | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
things. That is what the manager reminds us, this isn't good enough, | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
keep going, keep regressing. If you want to be an Aberdeen player, get | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
two finals and when finals and a regular occasion, eventually | :07:33. | :07:40. | |
challenge for the title. Derek McInnes has reignited a double act | :07:41. | :07:48. | |
who are on fire at Pittodrie. The three of us linked up pretty well up | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
there, with Richie Foran. The squad that is here as well, we have guys | :07:56. | :08:04. | |
whose legs are nearly gone! And Willo Flood in the middle. Barry | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
Robson's from all love affair truly began during the Alex Ferguson | :08:12. | :08:21. | |
years. -- football love affair. I remember some great players that I | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
watch with my dad and my uncles. Willie Miller, Alec McLeish, Gordon | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
Strachan, who obviously I worked with after that. Aberdeen have been | :08:32. | :08:40. | |
in that shadow for a lot of years. It is never easy to bring that | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
success back, especially the way the modern game is going with money. But | :08:45. | :08:53. | |
our researchers has been pretty good. The manager has devoted | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
everything to Scouting and things that are done in the background. We | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
have legs, a lot pace, good ability spread throughout the team. When you | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
combine all that with hard work, you have a real chance. The manager said | :09:14. | :09:21. | |
we were a work in progress. We have done well getting to a cup final, | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
and done well in the Scottish cup, but I still think there is a lot | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
more to come. When you have the likes of Jonny Hayes, Niall McGinn, | :09:34. | :09:35. | |
playing up here, Harry in the middle, Willo Flood, you feel that | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
more than likely you will get a couple of chances every game. Myself | :09:43. | :09:50. | |
and Adam won the first division with Inverness, but to win a League Cup, | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
and to have the chance to do well at Scottish Cup these are very exciting | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
times for Aberdeen. I am a lot older than these two. Hopefully they have | :10:04. | :10:10. | |
years ahead to win things. I just cannot stress enough how good the | :10:11. | :10:18. | |
feeling is when you do win things. Robson, Rooney, Hayes. They are | :10:19. | :10:30. | |
attacking weapons for Aberdeen. How important is a strong and sturdy | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
defence? Really important. Anderson and Reynolds have been outstanding | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
at the heart of defence. I know Russell Anderson particularly well. | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
A player developed by the club. He has gone on to great things, with | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
Aberdeen, and when he made his move to Sunderland. They have a good | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
understanding and blend with each other really well. And when they | :10:59. | :11:07. | |
break, they break quickly. Well, they have pace, haven't they? And | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
you have Niall McGinn as well, the strength of Adam Rooney added at the | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
turn of the year, it makes them a formidable outfit going forward. | :11:18. | :11:25. | |
Rooney is so fast to react. He is level with Frazer Wright went all | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
wins the ball. But his reaction is quicker than the defender. As soon | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
as she is in that position, you are confident he will score a goal for | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
you. Aberdeen lacked that prior to him coming in. What strikes me about | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
those pictures, defensively, and in attack, is the passionate about the | :11:48. | :12:00. | |
club. -- passion. There is no doubt that there is real desire. And a lot | :12:01. | :12:07. | |
of ability also. The blend of experience and youth, great energy | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
throughout the team, and a desire, defensively, to keep clean sheets. | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
They have done that magnificently this season. If Inverness Caley | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
Thistle go forward and leave themselves exposed, Aberdeen can | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
take advantage with the energy and quality they have going forward. And | :12:28. | :12:34. | |
you worry about the absence of Warren, with all the attacking | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
promise Aberdeen have. Apart from the last three league games, he has | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
been terrific. There was a setback against Celtic and Dundee United, | :12:47. | :12:56. | |
but he is a big miss for us. I think though it is in the midfield area | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
where Thistle really need to work to get a result today. Looking outside, | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
it is not quite simply red, but there is a Dons domination. | :13:08. | :13:24. | |
We are the famous Aberdeen! Come on the Dons! Jonathan had a chat | :13:25. | :13:35. | |
earlier on with three Aberdeen players. He has also had a foot in | :13:36. | :13:43. | |
the Thistle camp. The rise of this club has been | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
remarkable. Formed 20 years ago, they have risen through the ranks | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
and allowing major force in Scottish all. -- football. They reached this | :13:52. | :14:03. | |
final in the most remarkable way. Down to nine men! I came on and | :14:04. | :14:14. | |
thought, just get a touch. It has gone in, incredible! I didn't really | :14:15. | :14:23. | |
celebrate. I turned around and all the boys were running in different | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
directions, seemed to not know what to do. But we were confident on | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
penalties, we had practised the day before. Draper has sensationally | :14:34. | :14:40. | |
sent nine man Thistle into the final! There were tears in our eyes. | :14:41. | :14:49. | |
The player saw him much it meant to the manager. What kind of impact has | :14:50. | :14:59. | |
he had? He told us what he wanted to do and why he was here. He has | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
trained how -- changed how we train and play, but has not kicked any | :15:06. | :15:22. | |
doors or punch Denny walls. It has been quite incredible from where | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
Caley Thistle where 20 years ago, just coming into existence, did you | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
ever think sorts of things would be possible at this club? When I first | :15:31. | :15:37. | |
came in, just over five years, we had no full-time physiotherapist, no | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
lunch after training, may be a part-time team, | :15:44. | :15:50. | |
lunch after training, may be a it has changed massively, | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
expectations about how well we can do, top six where we want to be. You | :15:54. | :16:00. | |
seem settled, what is the best thing about being a player for Inverness | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
Caley Thistle? the dressing room, great bunch of players, with | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
manners, respect for each other, you do not have to shout and ball at | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
them, they do that themselves. The best dressing room I have been in. | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
How much is there between the two sides, a lot said about Aberdeen, | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
but Inverness the team pushing Celtic harpist in the league? We | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
have beat them at the tawdry, they have been as at home. Again, -- at | :16:30. | :16:36. | |
Pittodrie Stadium. Again, we feel good. Aberdeen are favourites, but | :16:37. | :16:44. | |
with that comes pressure. Many Aberdeen supporters going down the | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
wanting to win the game, not happy unless they win the game. Our | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
supporters will go down to join them no matter what happens. The Cup | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
final, in my eyes, would be the biggest achievement I could ever | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
make in my career. I do not know if I could make it to finals again, I | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
do not know if I can, you never know, but we will give it 120%. | :17:08. | :17:15. | |
20 goals for Billy McKay this season, really impressive, but only | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
three since Christmas. But you take your eye off him at your peril. He | :17:20. | :17:26. | |
is the most valuable player, without doubt. Sometimes, not moving too | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
much in the box, finding little pockets to play in. To get 47 goals | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
in two seasons is the nominal. -- phenomenal. | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
This one is a fantastic finish, so quickly against Ross County, the | :17:43. | :17:49. | |
ball coming across quickly, a great finish. Just a natural born | :17:50. | :17:56. | |
finisher. It is all different types of strikes, such against Hearts | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
here. Not just movement. But composure, huddling into the far | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
corner. The second one against Hearts was even better. He is moving | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
with the defender, all different types of goals, the confidence to | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
hit balls in early, like Charlie was saying, he was a sign of a very good | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
striker. And in tight areas, like the corners, the ball comes to them | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
and he has that knack, something you cannot put a price on. You only have | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
to listen to Richie Foran to understand the importance, a quiet | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
menace about him. They would like two, one for central midfield, one | :18:38. | :18:45. | |
up on. Such a vital part. And what Caley Thistle are about. They are | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
about camaraderie, a willingness to work. He has an ability to both | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
defend and attack. Whether he plays midfield, whatever, | :18:56. | :19:07. | |
he is so versatile, and a huge personality and influence within | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
that Caley Thistle squad. And John Hughes was without Richie Foran, and | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
he has to tinker with the team and with the tactics and formation, and | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
that will not be up everybody's Street. Yes, he even went with 4-2, | :19:24. | :19:35. | |
going back to a four - 2-3-1 today. -- 4-2-3-1. Is a dot in the game has | :19:36. | :19:47. | |
been held in high regard up north. -- his ability in the game. they | :19:48. | :19:55. | |
have only been around for 20 years, first Cup final, more to this than | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
the game, huge occasion foreign Burness who needs to enjoy this. -- | :20:00. | :20:06. | |
this is a huge occasion for Inverness. And there would be nice | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
if there were more of their fans. Maybe 7500 here today. But it is a | :20:12. | :20:19. | |
special day and they will be hoping for a happy ending. It is | :20:20. | :20:28. | |
interesting to look back, Charlie, to the year 2000, when you had had a | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
rather special Tuesday night here, when super Calle went ballistic that | :20:34. | :20:40. | |
night. -- Caley. Is a disappointing to have so few fans? It is to me, I | :20:41. | :20:48. | |
thought 10,000 would be unfeasible number, I take my heart of that | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
matter take my hat off to the people coming down today. 40,000 is | :20:55. | :21:03. | |
phenomenal for Aberdeen. But it is a big stepping stone for the club | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
today, another rung on the ladder, and hopefully the next time we come | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
to a Cup final will not be too far away and we will have in excess of | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
10,000. The story of Caley Thistle is wonderful, I remember them as a | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
Highland league team, and their chairman suggesting when the | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
amalgamated and became Caley Thistle that they would play in the top tier | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
one day and I remember having a little chuckle and I was probably | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
wrong, he was right, in the Top Gear, top of the league, in the Cup | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
final, quite an incredible 20 years. And it could be crowned today, | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
whether the land there first major trophy, and major day for John | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
Hughes and Derek McInnes, asked some questions. | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
I know you hoped Peter Pawlett could be involved, not proven to be the | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
case? No, even to the end of the week, we thought he would be fine. | :22:01. | :22:08. | |
With the growing, -- groin, some training and nine the area -- some | :22:09. | :22:15. | |
training and ideally again, but it was honest often to come forward, | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
but a huge blow for Peter, for ourselves, as he has been a key | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
player and up key part in getting is here. Disappointment is someone | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
else's opportunity. But he will get the chance to play in other Cup | :22:29. | :22:35. | |
finals. A sea of red at Celtic Park. What is your message to keep these | :22:36. | :22:42. | |
bands Harvey-- keep these fans happy? Do your best, it is on the | :22:43. | :22:49. | |
pitch we will win it, not because of fantastic backing. We can use that | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
to inspire us, should relish that, and I think the players will brace | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
that and help them perform better. But it is what is done on the | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
pitch. The players performing, do things right, still the game as the | :23:03. | :23:09. | |
same as any other, tough opponent in Inverness. All the best. Thank you. | :23:10. | :23:21. | |
Aaron Doran on the bench, what was the tactic? All tactical. It is all | :23:22. | :23:29. | |
tactical, the team is picked for the best intentions to win the football | :23:30. | :23:36. | |
match. Fully, that will be the case. What will be your final words to the | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
players trying to create some history? Have no regrets, but | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
control your emotions, finishing with 11 players on the pitch. We | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
want to get in tackles, and hopefully that will be the case, but | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
control your emotions and have no regrets. All the best. -- all the | :23:56. | :24:05. | |
best. Thank you. I am in the presence of greatness, | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
the Aberdeen fans winging their will in the song, maybe you should | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
conduct, how I view an Aberdeen fan but Schumacher how do the pre-match | :24:14. | :24:22. | |
nerves compare? You always get a little update the food begins, big | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
matches, but as a fan, I am pretty comfortable. -- you always get a | :24:28. | :24:36. | |
little edgy before the football begins. But these people expect that | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
trophy to go back to Aberdeen, but respect to Caley Thistle, are very | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
good and strong side, putting up a strong side. If Aberdeen are at | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
their best, they will win, but have to be at their best to beat a very | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
good Inverness Caley Thistle said. Positive signs for the red Army, | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
including some contract extensions by Derek McGinest and Tony Doherty. | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
It has been worked well to get guys signed up all stop -- Derek McInnes. | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
We have spoken a lot about expectation from Ike with and within | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
Aberdeen, -- from outside Aberdeen. This is a massive game and also | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
Charlie spoke about this being another rung on the ladder foreign | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
Burness, huge for them as well, because if they can win this, who | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
knows what stage they could progress and moved to. -- for Inverness. A | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
lot riding on this. Widowed oversimplify it that, if this is a | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
free flowing match, that would suit Aberdeen and Inverness would prefer | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
it to be an ugly game? I can see where you are coming from, but not | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
the differential between the sides people are making out. With Aberdeen | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
being the bigger club, winning European trophies, the vast number | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
of supporters, not a huge amount between the two clubs on the part. | :26:05. | :26:13. | |
-- on the park. Aberdeen have they had a shot at goal in one previous | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
game. But Aberdeen could tip the scales, but not by much. The games | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
between them and a line that point. Absolutely, that game was a fine | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
example of why Inverness deserve respect, playing exceptionally well, | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
a lot of good football, just a slightly different line-up to what | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
they have this afternoon. They outplayed Aberdeen and, on the | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
night, I did not think that was possible, did not think Caley | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
Thistle good iPlayer Aberdeen, and the team did, so that is a warning | :26:46. | :26:52. | |
to Aberdeen. -- I did not think Caley Thistle could outplay. You get | :26:53. | :27:01. | |
the impression John Hughes and Inverness will thrive on the | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
underdog label. Hi-macro I think he likes to play up to that. I do not | :27:06. | :27:15. | |
think it is a case of, if the game is crabby, it suits Inverness and | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
Aberdeen supports open and expansive. -- is scrappy. Just the | :27:21. | :27:28. | |
one to make sure that Aberdeen does not get the upper hand. It is League | :27:29. | :27:38. | |
Cup final day and we are almost there. | :27:39. | :27:44. | |
Football's most enduring memories are edged and silver. 18 years since | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
their last trophy, Derek McInnes fires up Aberdeen once again, | :27:50. | :27:54. | |
passionate and exciting. -- etched in silver. Formed just 20 years ago, | :27:55. | :28:03. | |
John Hughes is determined to lead Inverness Caledonian Thistle to | :28:04. | :28:06. | |
their greatest ever achievement with a spirited never say die team. The | :28:07. | :28:13. | |
story will have another glorious chapter written! Aberdeen against | :28:14. | :28:19. | |
Inverness Caledonian Thistle. Who will make their mark to date? The | :28:20. | :28:26. | |
68th League Cup final, Aberdeen against Inverness Caley Thistle at | :28:27. | :28:29. | |
Celtic Park, talking you through Mark McGhee and Liam McLeod. | :28:30. | :28:37. | |
A wonderful atmosphere, a battle of the North, Aberdeen from the East | :28:38. | :28:43. | |
against Inverness Caley Thistle of the Highlands, a battle of the | :28:44. | :28:49. | |
League Cup, is it going up the A9 or A90 this evening? The road to | :28:50. | :28:56. | |
Aberdeen is one it has been on five times before, not having the | :28:57. | :29:01. | |
privilege for a while, the Dons the thug was excess of club in this | :29:02. | :29:04. | |
competition despite almost a generation of supporters not knowing | :29:05. | :29:08. | |
what it feels like to win silverware. -- the third most | :29:09. | :29:14. | |
successful club. It has been season after season of anti-climax and | :29:15. | :29:16. | |
disappointment. Russell Anderson would Richie Foran | :29:17. | :30:01. | |
lost a cup final at Motherwell. They were hammered by Rangers. Russell | :30:02. | :30:07. | |
Anderson is the only survivor from an Aberdeen last played in a cup | :30:08. | :30:14. | |
final. They lost both cup finals that season. A stunning display from | :30:15. | :30:24. | |
the Aberdeen support. 40,000 of them supporting their team. Unfortunately | :30:25. | :30:34. | |
for them, there is no Peter Pawlett. He has been brilliant at this season | :30:35. | :30:42. | |
but succumbs to an injury. Robson, Hayes, Rooney, up against their old | :30:43. | :30:50. | |
team. Caley Thistle are without influential centre half Gary, | :30:51. | :30:55. | |
suspended. Aaron Dorans will be disappointed not to start. Billy | :30:56. | :31:01. | |
McKay has 20 goals this season, but just three since the tomb of the | :31:02. | :31:11. | |
year. -- turn. Aaron Dorans does feature with the substitutes. The | :31:12. | :31:19. | |
referee, 32-year-old Stephen Maclean. A first major final for | :31:20. | :31:31. | |
him. This could be quite an afternoon. The last time these clubs | :31:32. | :31:39. | |
met Aberdeen edged a seven goal thriller underneath the Caley | :31:40. | :31:45. | |
Thistle Stadium floodlights. Jamie Langfield has kept 19 clean sheets | :31:46. | :31:48. | |
of this season, what price another one today? And not bad at the other | :31:49. | :31:57. | |
end either, 17 green shoots managed. -- clean sheets. Mark McGhee, what | :31:58. | :32:07. | |
do you make of it? It has to be said, Inverness have a great | :32:08. | :32:10. | |
following, but an outstanding effort from the Aberdeen fans. A | :32:11. | :32:15. | |
recognition of how long they have waited for this data, round. -- this | :32:16. | :32:26. | |
day to come around. The 68th Scottish League Cup final. A first | :32:27. | :32:43. | |
for Inverness, Aberdeen 's 13th. Inverness have never gotten the | :32:44. | :32:48. | |
better of Aberdeen in a cup tie. One draw, four losses. We are under at | :32:49. | :33:07. | |
Celtic Park. -- underway. Jonny Hayes is already in the waters. -- | :33:08. | :33:17. | |
wars. He has gone over and landed on his shoulder. Hopefully nothing too | :33:18. | :33:26. | |
serious, with just seconds gone. He is so influential for Aberdeen. His | :33:27. | :33:33. | |
former team-mate at Caley Thistle, Adam Rooney has joined the team. But | :33:34. | :33:42. | |
this does not look good for Hayes. She landed heavily on his shoulder. | :33:43. | :33:48. | |
But he is sitting up now and it looks like he may recover. A great | :33:49. | :33:53. | |
opportunity for these boys to make a reputation for themselves, but | :33:54. | :33:59. | |
themselves in the history books. Hayes could be the man to supply | :34:00. | :34:11. | |
that. New deals signed at Aberdeen on Friday, adding a couple of years | :34:12. | :34:16. | |
to the management's contracts. Good turn, looking for Rooney. Aberdeen | :34:17. | :34:23. | |
beginning the game on the front foot. They got the ball forward from | :34:24. | :34:35. | |
the throw-in, the shot was wayward, but a good positive start for | :34:36. | :34:43. | |
Aberdeen. The Dons were victorious on this ground just a month ago, | :34:44. | :34:53. | |
knocking Celtic of the Scottish cup. -- out of. Back to back 5-0 defeat | :34:54. | :35:10. | |
for Inverness and recently for the first time in their history. Vincent | :35:11. | :35:20. | |
has got the nod ahead of Dorans today. A first touch of the ball for | :35:21. | :35:29. | |
one of the old heads, Robson. Russell Anderson. Jonny Hayes is | :35:30. | :35:37. | |
back on and moving freely. Just outside your picture. Anderson takes | :35:38. | :35:47. | |
the high road, looking for Rooney. Onto the chest of Niall McGinn. They | :35:48. | :35:55. | |
composed figure in the Aberdeen midfield, Reynolds. Jonny Hayes | :35:56. | :36:07. | |
really is struggling with that shoulder. At times Billy McKay has | :36:08. | :36:15. | |
looked detached from the rest of the team. Marley Watkins for Thistle. A | :36:16. | :36:24. | |
first for a deep into Aberdeen territory. -- foray. Raven. Tansey. | :36:25. | :36:38. | |
Scorer of a wonderful goal against Heart of Midlothian. His second | :36:39. | :36:48. | |
spell at the club. Reynolds, trying to shepherd McKay. Back towards | :36:49. | :36:58. | |
Langfield. Jamie Langfield will be happy with that early touch of the | :36:59. | :37:02. | |
ball. He has now thrown it out of play. Jonny Hayes is really | :37:03. | :37:08. | |
struggling. It looks like it could be game over. Another serious blow. | :37:09. | :37:19. | |
They already lost Peter Pawlett. This is the confirmation. There is | :37:20. | :37:24. | |
no way you can continue today. Cammie Smith is the most likely | :37:25. | :37:29. | |
replacement for the Irishman, Hayes. What a serious blow. Tragic for the | :37:30. | :37:38. | |
lad himself. He has started with enthusiasm, going for a ball he | :37:39. | :37:42. | |
probably did not need to go for. And he is going to go off. What a blow | :37:43. | :37:47. | |
for the team, and a shame for the Blair himself. -- player. You can | :37:48. | :38:02. | |
see he is visibly upset. Cammie Smith will come on, he was excellent | :38:03. | :38:08. | |
against Dumbarton last week. He will have been disappointed not to start, | :38:09. | :38:13. | |
but he is as good as doing that now, coming on just five minutes into the | :38:14. | :38:25. | |
game. Shades of Eoin Jess, coming on as a substitute in the League Cup | :38:26. | :38:32. | |
final in 1995, just 18 years of age. -- 1989. He was set up for a shot, | :38:33. | :38:40. | |
he might have hit the target, but you see the importance of getting | :38:41. | :38:46. | |
somebody close to Adam Rooney. I feel he is too far away from the | :38:47. | :38:51. | |
rest of his team already, whereas Niall McGinn is getting close to | :38:52. | :38:54. | |
Rooney, and that will be important for Aberdeen. The last time Aberdeen | :38:55. | :39:02. | |
were in a major cup final they lost a player to injury in the early | :39:03. | :39:06. | |
minutes, it was the last game ever for club legend Jim Leighton. That | :39:07. | :39:16. | |
jinx has struck again. They cannot let it play on their minds. Cammie | :39:17. | :39:24. | |
Smith will have sat on the bench thinking, maybe I will get a run out | :39:25. | :39:28. | |
in the second half, but instead he has the whole game. Aberdeen must | :39:29. | :39:33. | |
now go on with the same determination with which they | :39:34. | :39:43. | |
started. Shinnie, and Aberdonian. Caley Thistle player, formerly of | :39:44. | :39:58. | |
Birmingham City. Divine. -- Devine. Watkins under pressure from | :39:59. | :40:05. | |
Considine, drag all the way from his left back position. He did well to | :40:06. | :40:11. | |
win and that free kick, he was not favourite. He did well to get | :40:12. | :40:25. | |
himself the free kick. Caley Thistle know that they can blow the Aberdeen | :40:26. | :40:32. | |
feel-good factor to bits today. All the pressure has been on the Dons | :40:33. | :40:36. | |
since they made it to this showpiece occasion. Flood clears it. | :40:37. | :40:50. | |
McKay. Again, he manages to find Shinnie. Good play by Barry Robson. | :40:51. | :41:17. | |
Devine, who Got 25 minutes when John Hughes made a change, taking Gary | :41:18. | :41:21. | |
Warren off, knowing that he would lay in his absence. -- play. | :41:22. | :41:36. | |
Heavy with the touch. Now it is McKay. Not the ideal ball to Draper | :41:37. | :41:42. | |
but it might still come to Watkins... Anderson is they are. And | :41:43. | :41:51. | |
a good job he was, McKay was waiting for the scraps. Just a little bit | :41:52. | :42:07. | |
complacent. A good opportunity. The first opportunity for the | :42:08. | :42:11. | |
Highlanders. Langfield organising the defence. McGinlay for Aberdeen. | :42:12. | :42:21. | |
The Dons are one of the best counterattacking teams in the | :42:22. | :42:27. | |
country. Good challenge by Raven, the pressure is off. | :42:28. | :42:42. | |
Lots of people have Aberdeen down as favourites today. Some feel they | :42:43. | :42:49. | |
might crumble under the expectation of the sheer number of fans. I don't | :42:50. | :42:57. | |
think that is the case. We heard the players talking before the game, | :42:58. | :43:00. | |
there is a really positive attitude with the players and management. | :43:01. | :43:11. | |
Logan. Flood. Jack. Assessing his options. That was clever, if you can | :43:12. | :43:20. | |
get there. He wanted a run from Considine as well. Probably the | :43:21. | :43:30. | |
defender was entitled to stop him. He did not quite make the full | :43:31. | :43:34. | |
distance, but I great idea, great little money. -- dummy. If this game | :43:35. | :43:46. | |
goes all the way to extra time, Aberdeen have won the less change | :43:47. | :43:52. | |
they can make. Yes, but they will be hoping to win in 90 minutes, not | :43:53. | :43:56. | |
worrying too much about extra time at this stage. He is an important | :43:57. | :44:03. | |
player and a source of chances, a maker of goals. That is more of a | :44:04. | :44:10. | |
blow than whether they can bring somebody on during the last half | :44:11. | :44:11. | |
hour. Certainly, Inverness at this stage | :44:12. | :44:33. | |
are not showing any nerves. There is no lack of structure to their game, | :44:34. | :44:37. | |
they have set themselves up in a certain way and are doing well at | :44:38. | :44:45. | |
the moment. Through to Watkins, but Considine clears. Devine. Always a | :44:46. | :44:53. | |
good place to give away a free kick, the halfway line. Let the centre | :44:54. | :45:02. | |
forward now you are there. We spoke about the need to be physical in | :45:03. | :45:06. | |
this game, the Aberdeen players can expect to be tackled. Shaleum Logan, | :45:07. | :45:20. | |
on loan from Bedford. Pressing for Inverness so far. | :45:21. | :45:33. | |
Not a bad ball from Cammy Smith. A fabulous Ball, almost onto the | :45:34. | :45:43. | |
penalties but, Smith arriving, maybe the wrong, you would have liked to | :45:44. | :45:49. | |
see Rooney on that, but a terrific break down the left-hand side, and a | :45:50. | :45:54. | |
good ball from Ryan Jack, as well as Andrew Considine. Inverness with the | :45:55. | :46:00. | |
first chance, no they are equalling chances. Derek McInnes looking for a | :46:01. | :46:06. | |
piece of silverware in his first full season. He has not been in | :46:07. | :46:16. | |
charge even a year, after replacing Craig Brown. What a job he has done | :46:17. | :46:26. | |
in the subsequent almost 12 months. The towering draper against Jack. -- | :46:27. | :46:35. | |
Draper. You saw him already with a free kick. The one that blocked. He | :46:36. | :46:42. | |
is a threat, someone taking up Aberdeen's attention in their own | :46:43. | :46:46. | |
box, and could be a danger to Aberdeen this afternoon. | :46:47. | :46:59. | |
Derek McInnes said the best 25 minutes for Aberdeen this season | :47:00. | :47:12. | |
came against the match against Inverness. Aberdeen scored in the | :47:13. | :47:19. | |
second half, taking it to 4-3. A 20 minute spell when Aberdeen scored | :47:20. | :47:23. | |
for macro goals when Inverness could get nowhere near them. -- scored | :47:24. | :47:31. | |
four goals. An easy one that time for Reynolds. | :47:32. | :47:44. | |
Willo Flood, looking ever so well. A good challenge thereby Ross Draper. | :47:45. | :47:57. | |
-- there by. Inverness midfielder getting close to Aberdeen. Doing | :47:58. | :48:02. | |
brilliantly to win it back, then passing it straight back to Willo | :48:03. | :48:07. | |
Flood, they need to keep the ball for longer, Inverness, using up | :48:08. | :48:09. | |
energy trying to get it back. One thing Adam does for Aberdeen, | :48:10. | :48:26. | |
that outlet, not wearing number nine, but a classic number nine. | :48:27. | :48:34. | |
Absolutely, pushing the back four, stretching them. That was not a bad | :48:35. | :48:42. | |
ball, if Watkins could just have got there. The Inverness back four being | :48:43. | :48:50. | |
forced to go deeper, creating space in the midfield, giving opportunity | :48:51. | :48:54. | |
for midfield players to support and get our word. A very important | :48:55. | :48:56. | |
player for them Adam. Jamie Langfield there. Another major | :48:57. | :49:09. | |
appearance. John Hughes watching on, hoping his | :49:10. | :49:43. | |
team can draw first blood from this James Vincent corner kick. This is | :49:44. | :49:53. | |
where Draper is effective, not only winning it, but blocking for others. | :49:54. | :50:00. | |
Vincent, surrounded by red and white, and it was a handball, and it | :50:01. | :50:04. | |
was off Draper. I think it was. Willo Flood protesting his innocence | :50:05. | :50:27. | |
there. The early injury was a disappointment for everyone, I | :50:28. | :50:31. | |
think, but the game has started well, played at a tempo, both sets | :50:32. | :50:38. | |
looking like they want to win the game, sometimes there can be a fear | :50:39. | :50:44. | |
of losing, but both teams up but it. It has the makings of a great game. | :50:45. | :50:56. | |
Josh Meekings with the kick, but it ended up too close to the keeper. | :50:57. | :51:02. | |
Willo Flood and Jamie Langfield dealing with what has been thrown at | :51:03. | :51:07. | |
them, just double-cross balls. Who will blink first? -- just simple | :51:08. | :51:12. | |
cross balls. Nice play that time from Mark | :51:13. | :51:42. | |
Reynolds. Aberdeen want to play from the back, but Inverness coming on, | :51:43. | :51:47. | |
and then the likes of Mark Reynolds is forced to play a longer ball, | :51:48. | :51:52. | |
meaning at this stage, leaving that, letting Jamie Langfield kick the | :51:53. | :51:56. | |
ball, because after that first ball out to the back four, Aberdeen | :51:57. | :52:02. | |
putting themselves under pressure. I would let Jimmy Lange field kicking | :52:03. | :52:05. | |
the ball and starting with Adam Rooney. -- Jamie Langfield kicking | :52:06. | :52:15. | |
the ball. Aberdeen's 28th major final. Anderson is there from | :52:16. | :52:24. | |
Russell Anderson, but Reynolds was there -- a snip from. Who is | :52:25. | :52:33. | |
handling it better just now? I think it is even Stevens. The tactic John | :52:34. | :52:38. | |
Hughes has given to close Aberdeen down is working, at times Aberdeen | :52:39. | :52:44. | |
nipping it back, being patient, looking dangerous, Aberdeen going | :52:45. | :52:47. | |
forward, looking good on counter attack. Both teams approaching it | :52:48. | :52:53. | |
slightly differently. But both making good chances, opportunities | :52:54. | :52:54. | |
to score, but it is even Stephen. Watkins with a challenge again, | :52:55. | :53:12. | |
resulting in an Aberdeen free kick. Every outfield Aberdeen player in | :53:13. | :53:15. | |
Inverness territory. Ryan Jack taking it, doing well. Trying to | :53:16. | :53:19. | |
keep it going. Trying to clip it through there for | :53:20. | :53:59. | |
Rooney. Robson having to be really up against Billy McKay. One there | :54:00. | :54:04. | |
working in Caley Thistle's favour. I think the fans the pace of McKay up | :54:05. | :54:14. | |
against Russell Anderson. -- the fans see the pace. David Raven, | :54:15. | :54:23. | |
started his career at Liverpool. Making their way there through the | :54:24. | :54:41. | |
red and white balloons. Good controlled by Barry Robson. | :54:42. | :55:04. | |
Just trying to angle it out towards Robson. Devine taking the chances | :55:05. | :55:16. | |
there. -- taking no chances. A great time from Shaleum Logan. -- | :55:17. | :55:21. | |
turn. Barry Robson, Ryan Jack, already, | :55:22. | :55:36. | |
you can see one of them possibly the key to unlocking Inverness, making | :55:37. | :55:43. | |
one of those passes. Robson got it back, but got very late by Richie | :55:44. | :55:49. | |
Foran, and the referee wanting to speak to their Caley Thistle | :55:50. | :55:55. | |
captain. I do not think there was any intent there, just the change | :55:56. | :56:01. | |
that caught him out. A word of warning for Foran. For this. No | :56:02. | :56:11. | |
contact of note, but it is a free kick. Has reversed the ball towards | :56:12. | :56:17. | |
the right-hand side, on his left foot, anticipating him going out the | :56:18. | :56:21. | |
other side, sliding underneath them, but no contact. Jack leaves it for | :56:22. | :56:27. | |
Robson. Is it over? It was! Goal-line | :56:28. | :56:46. | |
technology, I am afraid, looking like it was going straight then, of | :56:47. | :56:50. | |
the post, off the line, good defending. -- off the post. It | :56:51. | :56:57. | |
looked at one point as if it had crossed the line. | :56:58. | :57:08. | |
Never crossed the line, am afraid. No debate, Aberdeen come again, the | :57:09. | :57:23. | |
first corner, Anderson... That was a chance, two free kicks, Ryan Jack | :57:24. | :57:29. | |
taking one, Robson the other, Mark Reynolds winning both headers, dine | :57:30. | :57:39. | |
with a great chance. -- down with. This might like a fire under this | :57:40. | :57:43. | |
League Cup I know, not a great clearance, Dean Brill getting away, | :57:44. | :57:51. | |
Anderson then of the post, Richie Foran was there, but of the post. . | :57:52. | :58:00. | |
It was going to hit the side netting. As it came across the line, | :58:01. | :58:05. | |
they looked surprised, but it stayed out and they managed to clear it. | :58:06. | :58:10. | |
Russell Anderson scored a goal against Celtic earlier in the | :58:11. | :58:15. | |
season, a wonderful volley, almost at it again there. | :58:16. | :58:24. | |
Robson has caught Foran again, this time Foran going into the book, | :58:25. | :58:35. | |
lucky not to be sent off against Hibernian midweek. Like what was | :58:36. | :58:41. | |
said about keeping your emotions and control, keeping your discipline. | :58:42. | :58:46. | |
His left foot gives away under the surface, slipping and sliding under | :58:47. | :58:51. | |
him, like the previous challenge, no intent, but catching him more that | :58:52. | :58:56. | |
time. The referee had no choice but to book him. Loves the game against | :58:57. | :59:01. | |
Aberdeen, very nearly an Aberdeen player, almost signed for them. | :59:02. | :59:08. | |
There were issues surrounding Richie Foran at the time. He ended up with | :59:09. | :59:15. | |
Motherwell instead before finding a home Caley Thistle. An Aberdeen free | :59:16. | :59:22. | |
kick, Robson with it. Does not find a team-mate, which is unusual. The | :59:23. | :59:29. | |
point is I thought it was Ryan Jack trying to get round the back, but | :59:30. | :59:35. | |
was blocked by Draper, not able to get there in time. Try to take a | :59:36. | :59:40. | |
free kick, but Ryan could not get on the end of it. Derek McInnes | :59:41. | :59:45. | |
thinking his team had struck the first blow a few minutes ago, but | :59:46. | :59:47. | |
hitting the post. Aberdeen are now 3-1 in chances. | :59:48. | :00:17. | |
Inverness have had the ball across the six yard box, there have been | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
opportunities already, and it does look like a game in which we will | :00:24. | :00:37. | |
get goals. Waiting for movement. Devine, Tansey. Shinnie. Meekings, | :00:38. | :00:58. | |
Could have missed the final himself. Had a red card downgraded to yellow. | :00:59. | :01:17. | |
Willo Flood. Rooney. Meekings. Taking control. Quite an | :01:18. | :01:25. | |
inexperienced centre half pairing. Certainly, not much first-team | :01:26. | :01:33. | |
football for Meeking, they are both 21, he and Devine. But the other end | :01:34. | :01:43. | |
with Marley Watkins. McKay. Went down, not happy with the referee, | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
who had a good view of that. Flood, tracked by Shinnie. A terrific | :01:51. | :01:58. | |
recovery. But Inverness really must be wary of Aberdeen on the | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
counterattack. Some retribution on the Inverness skipper. Being told to | :02:05. | :02:14. | |
calm down by the referee. For an really must be careful. Obviously he | :02:15. | :02:22. | |
was booked. But he must keep his discipline, they don't want anybody | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
sent off. Is this a foul? I don't think so. It breaks for Ross | :02:30. | :02:51. | |
Draper. Watkins. Shinnie. , corner. Terrific run, you can see why he | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
scores goals. It will be Shinnie to take. Lots of movement. Draper can | :02:58. | :03:07. | |
keep it alive. Russell Anderson for company. Devine. Not living up to | :03:08. | :03:23. | |
his name with that cross. It was a little bit hopeful. I go back to | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
your question earlier, is it even Stevens? I think so, though Aberdeen | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
have had the best chances, Inverness remain very much in this. Niall | :03:35. | :03:54. | |
McGinn. Rooney. Shinnie is there. A shout for Anderson. Robson. Well | :03:55. | :04:06. | |
played by Barry Robson. He is the influence that Aberdeen need on a | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
day like this. The level he has played out, the games he has played | :04:11. | :04:19. | |
in, a big influence on Aberdeen. Watkins, stepping away from | :04:20. | :04:27. | |
Considine. A good couple of minutes for Inverness. We described Aberdeen | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
is the good counterattacking team, but that had the makings of a good | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
counterattack and they still have pressure on the Aberdeen back four. | :04:38. | :04:51. | |
Marley Watkins, spent some of his youth career at Swansea and Chelsea. | :04:52. | :05:07. | |
Draper. Good tenacity from Watkins. Brilliant from Jack. Sustained a | :05:08. | :05:19. | |
head injury at Motherwell, came back earlier than expected. Doubts about | :05:20. | :05:27. | |
whether he would be available for this showpiece. Robson. Rooney runs | :05:28. | :05:37. | |
ahead. That was a decent idea, a diagonal run. He tried to just drop | :05:38. | :05:45. | |
it short, but just did not get on the end of it. But a decent idea. | :05:46. | :05:54. | |
Flood. Richie Foran. Devine. Vincent. He has looked like a good | :05:55. | :06:06. | |
signing. Was injured for a couple of months, came back. He has found that | :06:07. | :06:15. | |
little gap just in front of McKay. He has found a bit of space. | :06:16. | :06:27. | |
Mark Reynolds. Considine to his left. McGinn. Decide to lay it off | :06:28. | :06:53. | |
to Jack Logan. Flood is at close quarters. Watkins comes across. | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
Battling with Willo Flood. Kept in by the Irishman. Smith. | :07:00. | :07:10. | |
Niall McGinn. A lot of possession for Aberdeen, can they do anything | :07:11. | :07:26. | |
with it? Logan. Rooney goes down, shake off the head from Stephen | :07:27. | :07:33. | |
Maclean! A goal kick. I think he is right. I think he makes contact with | :07:34. | :07:43. | |
the ball. He touches the ball and goes down, it is not a penalty kick. | :07:44. | :07:54. | |
A great decision by the referee. Ten minutes to half-time. Lots of big | :07:55. | :08:03. | |
decisions from the referee in the first half. A first major cup final | :08:04. | :08:14. | |
for him. An awkward bounce for cancer diary. -- Considine. You | :08:15. | :08:23. | |
don't want to give away unnecessary free kicks. Part of the armoury is | :08:24. | :08:31. | |
getting Draper up there, creating pressure, hoping for a loose ball, | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
and that is an absolutely unnecessary free kick were there | :08:39. | :08:40. | |
needs to be a little bit more discipline in those situations. | :08:41. | :08:50. | |
David Raven over this. Not the best delivery. Always favourite, | :08:51. | :08:59. | |
Meekings. Flood. He was caught late by Richie | :09:00. | :09:27. | |
Foran. Already been booked, remember. He needs to be very | :09:28. | :09:36. | |
careful. None of the challenges I have seen from him have been any | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
attempt at all. That really was a nothing one. He needs to be | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
disciplined or he will catch someone again. You do not want to lose this | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
game because you are down to ten men. Robson, Smith, Watkins the | :09:50. | :10:05. | |
stronger of the two. Both managers will be looking at the moment, | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
reasonably happy. Aberdeen might feel they should be in the lead by | :10:09. | :10:15. | |
now, they have had the best chances. But generally both will be satisfied | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
to be in the game. They have not shown any nerves, the game started | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
quickly, the injury was a bit of a dampener, but since then, chances at | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
both ends, a good cup final so far. It could go either way. Flood loses | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
out to Watkins, now it is Richie Foran. A little bit too much for | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
Vincent, who keeps it alive. Tansey. Finding Draper. Raven. Devine. | :10:46. | :11:03. | |
Draper. Jack, pulled out of the tackle initially. Got it back in any | :11:04. | :11:11. | |
case. Smith finds Jack. Both from the Pittodrie youth academy. And | :11:12. | :11:22. | |
another from the youth academy, just longer ago, Russell Anderson. | :11:23. | :11:33. | |
Anderson's first season at Aberdeen when a youngster, was the last time | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
they won the silverware. Niall McGinn, going through the gears. To | :11:37. | :11:45. | |
Smith. Robson. Tansey, ambitious. Flood again. Considine. Flood to | :11:46. | :11:59. | |
Robson. A little shimmy from Robson, did not get the power on it. | :12:00. | :12:07. | |
Rooney was following in. A good take. Another shot from Aberdeen. In | :12:08. | :12:15. | |
the last ten minutes McGinn has become more influential, more | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
active, even when he has not had the ball, across the front line, even | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
coming deeper into his own half. He is becoming an influence in the | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
game. Raven, Vincent, Draper, straight to Smith. Flood. Just over | :12:33. | :12:43. | |
five minutes to half-time. Sometime will be added on for the injury to | :12:44. | :12:52. | |
Jonny Hayes earlier. Robson, it came him last. -- came off. That 4-3 | :12:53. | :13:06. | |
Aberdeen victory in the Highlands was part of the build-up to a busy | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
festive period. A game of two halves as they say. And victories for | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
either team either side of that. Jack. The last three League Cup | :13:16. | :13:46. | |
finals have been tight affairs. Rangers - Celtic, and then Saint | :13:47. | :14:03. | |
Mirren against hearts... Is Dean Brill get something on ethics | :14:04. | :14:13. | |
commission . He is a great defender who must release the Bologne little | :14:14. | :14:20. | |
quicker. Let Flood Robson deal with the ball, pass the ball, get it | :14:21. | :14:22. | |
wide. A shout for handball from the | :14:23. | :14:40. | |
Aberdeen supporters against Raven. It matters not, they have the ball | :14:41. | :14:51. | |
back. Jack, takes it down. Logan, for Robson. Inverness, every time | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
Aberdeen get the ball, around about the halfway line, Inverness are in | :14:59. | :15:07. | |
their faces, immediately. Good pressing from the Highlanders when | :15:08. | :15:17. | |
they have not got the ball. When the Dons get to the half line -- halfway | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
line, begins their campaign to get the ball back. A foul, Against | :15:25. | :15:33. | |
Reynolds. Unnecessary, you have to be more disciplined, led the players | :15:34. | :15:40. | |
go back to what is team, forced the ball back in there, do not force | :15:41. | :15:48. | |
these unnecessary free kick. Will there be an opener before half-time? | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
Draper joining the attack. Threat in the air. Devine and Foran in there | :15:56. | :16:09. | |
as well. I saw one for Anderson there. No surprise, Richie Foran is | :16:10. | :16:20. | |
involved. -- a sore one. Mark Reynolds has to be careful, giving | :16:21. | :16:28. | |
away free kicks. That was too wide. One of them they will get right. | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
They keep getting sight of it, one of those chances, they will get the | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
ball. They need more discipline in these wider areas. Inverness fans of | :16:39. | :16:45. | |
the other end of Celtic Park. Behind the goal of Dean Brill, two minutes | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
added on at the end. Another free kick goes the way of the | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
highlanders. Three minutes from the half-time whistle. | :16:56. | :17:17. | |
Anderson towering over Billy McKay there. Devine, singing to handle the | :17:18. | :17:28. | |
situation in the Cup final pretty well. | :17:29. | :17:55. | |
Josh Meekings, was he got by Adam Rooney? Yes, he was. Confirmation | :17:56. | :18:06. | |
given of stoppage time. If you are joining us, Jonny Hayes went off | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
early in June, Aberdeen with an early chance, Inverness ending the | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
first half pretty strongly. -- went off early injured. Wonderful | :18:16. | :18:25. | |
challenge there from Willo Flood, claiming it perfectly, but Aberdeen | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
giving it straight back to the Highlanders. A terrific tackle | :18:30. | :18:37. | |
inside the box from Willo Flood, almost set the team of on a counter | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
attack, but giving the ball away too quickly. When it came into the feet | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
of McKay, a jazz to run with the ball, he took the ball, -- a chance | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
to run with the ball. But not able to create the chance. Watkins | :18:55. | :19:04. | |
looking for Raven, but fetched by Considine, the final minute of the | :19:05. | :19:06. | |
first half. Setting Adam Rooney away, Devine is | :19:07. | :19:25. | |
underneath it. Smith went for it, as did Meekings. McKay doing well to | :19:26. | :19:32. | |
get that ball under control. Tansey was trying to get Watkins in | :19:33. | :19:58. | |
behind Considine. And the half-time whistle. Derek McInnes heads up the | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
tunnel immediately, facing a big blow early on when Jonny Hayes had | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
to go off with a shoulder injury, Russell Anderson closest to breaking | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
the deadlock today, a wonderful effort flash -- flush off the post. | :20:13. | :20:23. | |
Anderson hooked it towards goal, Foran clear that of the line, Adam | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
Rooney thought it was over, the half time in the Scottish League Cup | :20:29. | :20:30. | |
final, nothing between them. Yes, the 2014 League Cup final is | :20:31. | :20:44. | |
still goalless, of two a measurable start for Jonny Hayes and Aberdeen, | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
almost glory for Russell Anderson. -- off to. One off the post, and no | :20:50. | :20:57. | |
penalty said the referee after Adam Rooney hit the deck here at Central | :20:58. | :21:05. | |
Park that wacko Celtic Park. 0-0 at the moment, let us get half-time | :21:06. | :21:15. | |
thoughts. -- here at Celtic Park. Willie Miller, how do you think your | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
old team have done Western Mac old team -- have done? Old team question | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
right I think they have done well. Some cheap free kicks. We have | :21:28. | :21:34. | |
looked good, some and tidy in the midfield, giving the ball away on a | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
few occasions, which has not helped, but the game is quite | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
tight. Not causing Jamie Langfield too many problems, but we need to do | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
something creatively in the second half perhaps, but they should be | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
happy defensively. Russell Anderson, he likes Celtic Park, scoring a | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
magnificent ball down here not too long ago, and had the opportunity | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
there, got it well, superb strike, little unfortunate it came off the | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
post, I do not know why Richie Foran was on the other posts, he just | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
happened to be there. Aberdeen has had the better chances. He played | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
OK, but I am with Charlie, there is not much in the game. If you are an | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
Inverness abortive, you would be happy. -- supporter. They are right | :22:26. | :22:35. | |
in it. Absolutely, compared to last week, it is clear. They have | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
stretched the game, working for them. Billy McKay has been a very | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
effective one up front for them, holding it well, winning quite a few | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
balls in the air, limiting Aberdeen in the final heard, the back four of | :22:50. | :22:57. | |
Inverness and not having much to chase behind them. And with that | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
these lost with Peter Pawlett missing before the game, and with | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
Jonny Hayes injured in the first minute, has affected Aberdeen in | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
terms of penetration. A real double blow to Aberdeen, beat Apollo before | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
the match, then barely begun by the time Jonny Hayes went off. | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
Absolutely, it is that these he is lacking now. These are the two quick | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
players looking to get forward to support Rooney and they are not | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
there. That is definitely lacking. Niall McGinn has gone off the boil | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
recently as well, his form has not been as good, not been as affective | :23:36. | :23:43. | |
as he should've been . But the huge blow for Aberdeen, not putting Caley | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
Thistle under pressure, the pay is lacking, and major concern to Derek | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
McInnes, I would imagine. Chat outside will be about the penalty | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
decision, and most of us were in two minds. You're not, Michael? | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
No doubt, this is a penalty. It is last week when Adam Gunning was | :24:04. | :24:11. | |
brought down. Josh Meekings is not seen, you can clearly see there is | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
contact with each other's knees there. You could argue that Adam | :24:18. | :24:24. | |
Rooney would not get the ball, a bad touch, but anywhere else on the | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
pitch, that is a free kick, 100% a penalty. | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
Charlie is not convinced? He is not controlling the ball. I think he has | :24:36. | :24:44. | |
not control the ball and I am not convinced there was much contact | :24:45. | :24:46. | |
there. Adam was looking for it. 70-30 against it. Willie Miller, | :24:47. | :25:02. | |
argued 50-50? There is some contact. Rooney did not have control of the | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
ball, no doubt, it was going out, and the referee must have taken that | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
into consideration. But when you are a defender in the penalty box, and | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
you go for a ball like that, you need to get the ball. | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
But he has put on self that position. For those reasons, I am 50 | :25:24. | :25:32. | |
- 50. If that was midfield, and the guys check each other, you would get | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
a free kick, no question, it is inside the box, same rules apply, no | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
different rules, that is a penalty, there is contact there, it should | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
have been a penalty for Aberdeen. A crying shame, literally, for Jonny | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
Hayes, visibly upset, he must have been really looking forward to this. | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
Looking back, he will probably wish he did not go in for the challenge. | :26:01. | :26:07. | |
But he isn't easy as big, he wants to be part of the game and its | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
build-up. And he has went in but it, made that decision, falling | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
awkwardly. You could see a the time he was hurt, and a huge blow for | :26:18. | :26:24. | |
him. The way he landed, the likelihood was it was not going to | :26:25. | :26:26. | |
be much more of the game by him. And everyone in here, as soon as we | :26:27. | :26:40. | |
start, we thought he would not be in the game. But the adrenaline is | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
rushing, desperate to get involved, and he has had to go off injured. | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
Aberdeen getting the ball in the net, that was the big draw in the | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
background, Inverness starting well, capitalising on Aberdeen giving the | :26:54. | :26:55. | |
ball away. Vincent has proven to be a diamond | :26:56. | :27:08. | |
at the moment, creating problems. It is not like Billy to get in front of | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
a defender, I thought he might take a step back, trying to get in front | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
of him, but good defending, showing the capability of causing problems. | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
But not too much of that since? We have shown too much respect | :27:24. | :27:30. | |
midfield, and I agree that Niall McGinn does not look too much on the | :27:31. | :27:37. | |
boil. We need to be tighter in the midfield, which is by John has five | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
guys in there, to keep Aberdeen facing the wrong goal, then if you | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
get the ball, you can get a ball through. Cammy Smith replaced Jonny | :27:47. | :27:53. | |
Hayes, and could have made an instant impact. | :27:54. | :28:00. | |
It was a super cross from Andrew Considine. Young Cammy, he is very | :28:01. | :28:09. | |
good on the ground, it was a wonderful cross in, Adam Rooney, a | :28:10. | :28:14. | |
real opportunity. Cammy Smith? Not surprised it went off the bar. | :28:15. | :28:23. | |
CROWD CHANTS. You should say hello to some of your | :28:24. | :28:34. | |
fans there. Thank you. And some levelling things up? Absolutely, | :28:35. | :28:40. | |
Aberdeen have some guys missing, but in possession, guys like Willo Flood | :28:41. | :28:48. | |
and Barry Robson, Ryan Jack, all very nice in possession, but not | :28:49. | :28:52. | |
quick enough. Inverness have been difficult to break down, but need to | :28:53. | :28:57. | |
pass quickly remove the midfield about. It has been too slow at the | :28:58. | :29:01. | |
moment, keeping possession, which is bearing up, but need to get it | :29:02. | :29:06. | |
quicker and in between the lines. -- which is fear in our. This law is -- | :29:07. | :29:13. | |
a bit too slow is the possession. And maybe a wrong yellow card | :29:14. | :29:19. | |
because of losing fitting, but he is on the tightrope the way he plays. I | :29:20. | :29:25. | |
think he was led off with the first one, because he slept, and was | :29:26. | :29:29. | |
booked in the second one, but Richie Foran has to be careful, playing | :29:30. | :29:35. | |
that way, he is 33, you may have to sit out one or two challenges. And | :29:36. | :29:41. | |
Russell Anderson Dunning into a goal machine, almost had another | :29:42. | :29:44. | |
memorable one? He has had a fantastic season. | :29:45. | :29:57. | |
Unusual to see him in the box. That was magnificent, if you take any top | :29:58. | :30:01. | |
striker, and vitamin that position, and he manages to dig that one out. | :30:02. | :30:08. | |
-- put him in that position. An absolute superb example of how to | :30:09. | :30:14. | |
strike the ball on the volley, unusual for him to do that, but it | :30:15. | :30:21. | |
was so close. Wonderful strike. It looked like it could have spun in if | :30:22. | :30:26. | |
Richie Foran had not been there. Then another chance from Adam | :30:27. | :30:31. | |
Rooney. Just attack too far in front. It has not fallen enough, he | :30:32. | :30:37. | |
is on the back foot. He is off balance. Stretching all the time. | :30:38. | :30:53. | |
Difficult one for him. Gary Warren not playing, that is definitely a | :30:54. | :31:03. | |
factor. That is a concern for us. Just backtracking to the Russell | :31:04. | :31:09. | |
Anderson shot, the instinct of Richie Foran to be in the right | :31:10. | :31:12. | |
place at the right time for Inverness. It is just his instinct, | :31:13. | :31:19. | |
he felt as if, I need to get back and add some cover. If he was not, | :31:20. | :31:25. | |
it could have rebounded from the other post and gone in all -- gone | :31:26. | :31:41. | |
in. His role is interesting, he drifts in behind Billy McKay. We | :31:42. | :31:48. | |
have seen it so far today, Vincent has started on the left side, | :31:49. | :31:55. | |
playing in what you would class as a number ten position. It is causing | :31:56. | :32:01. | |
the Aberdeen midfield problems. Start on the left, drift in. It is | :32:02. | :32:10. | |
causing Aberdeen problems. Robson, now standing on the right-hand | :32:11. | :32:14. | |
side, he wants to drive in and cover him all the way. But Flood and Jack | :32:15. | :32:21. | |
are already in the middle of the pitch marking up, so Aberdeen are | :32:22. | :32:24. | |
finding it difficult knowing who to pick up. They will have difficulty | :32:25. | :32:31. | |
countering that, it could lead to something in the second half. John | :32:32. | :32:36. | |
Hughes could go on the other direction and bring on some genuine | :32:37. | :32:41. | |
width. Exactly, and I think Dorans would be ideal. Bringing him on, if | :32:42. | :32:49. | |
it is still level with 25 minutes to go, that is a good option. And we | :32:50. | :32:54. | |
know that Nick Ross can have an impact. The philosophy would have | :32:55. | :33:03. | |
been, keep it tight for an Allah. If it is 0-0, they will be happy. -- | :33:04. | :33:10. | |
keep it tight for an hour. They have guys that can thrive on space. Ross | :33:11. | :33:17. | |
and Dorans can hopefully come on and take advantage of tired legs. | :33:18. | :33:23. | |
Aberdeen have already had to commit Cammie Smith as a sub. When you look | :33:24. | :33:30. | |
at the bench, who else could be significant? You are right, they do | :33:31. | :33:36. | |
not have many game changers on the bench, Derek McInnes will hope he | :33:37. | :33:39. | |
does not have too be in that position, making changes to change | :33:40. | :33:47. | |
the course of the game. From an Inverness point of view, they | :33:48. | :33:51. | |
started well. I was looking out for nerves, but they have shown none | :33:52. | :33:56. | |
whatsoever. Aberdeen have been slightly better, had the better | :33:57. | :33:59. | |
opportunities, but John Hughes will be delighted. It is an intriguing | :34:00. | :34:08. | |
game. It is difficult to see which way it will go. Inverness have more | :34:09. | :34:19. | |
than handled themselves. John Hughes will have wanted to keep it tight | :34:20. | :34:23. | |
then try to get a little bit more width after an hour. And Willie is | :34:24. | :34:31. | |
right, no nerves from Inverness, which you might have expected after | :34:32. | :34:36. | |
recent results. As the game goes on, they will grow in confidence, | :34:37. | :34:39. | |
Aberdeen will have to deal with that. The teams are emerging for the | :34:40. | :34:46. | |
second half. There will have been a lot of debate during the interval | :34:47. | :34:50. | |
about this, was there enough contact them for that to be a penalty? The | :34:51. | :34:57. | |
referee thought not. Russell Anderson has gone closest to | :34:58. | :35:01. | |
breaking the deadlock so far with a right foot volley which struck the | :35:02. | :35:05. | |
inside of the post before Richie Foran was in the right place to deal | :35:06. | :35:11. | |
with it on the line. 0-0 so far, let's return for the second half, to | :35:12. | :35:15. | |
Mark McGhee and Liam McLeod. In the next 45 minutes we will find | :35:16. | :35:23. | |
out who will In the next 45 minutes win the first | :35:24. | :35:28. | |
piece of silverware in Scottish but all this season. -- Scottish | :35:29. | :35:38. | |
football. No further changes at half-time. The 35th meeting between | :35:39. | :35:48. | |
these teams. The third time they have met in the League Cup. Aberdeen | :35:49. | :35:57. | |
have won both so far. 3-0 in 1998, 4-1 in 2007. No matter who wins this | :35:58. | :36:07. | |
one, it will be a fourth different winner of the trophy since 1994. | :36:08. | :36:18. | |
Rangers, Kilmarnock, Saint Mirren, then one of these two. Barry Robson, | :36:19. | :36:32. | |
he had a decent first-half. Russell Anderson showed real agility in | :36:33. | :36:36. | |
hitting the post. That is too long. Mark McGhee. As the game started you | :36:37. | :36:45. | |
could not quite call it. Nothing between them really. Slightly | :36:46. | :36:55. | |
different in style. Aberdeen trying to bully, Inverness trying to take | :36:56. | :36:58. | |
opportunities when Aberdeen make a mistake. Get the ball up to Billy | :36:59. | :37:05. | |
McKay, she has done terrifically well against two bigger lads. McKay | :37:06. | :37:22. | |
at that time on Reynolds. Aberdeen are second in the premiership, | :37:23. | :37:30. | |
Thistle are for. -- fourth. Tansey and Flood come together. Tansey did | :37:31. | :37:37. | |
well. A decent free kick to give away. Quite deliberate, knew he | :37:38. | :37:41. | |
would not get the ball, just went with him. Aberdeen minus two of | :37:42. | :37:55. | |
their semifinal heroes. As and Paul. -- Hayes and Pawlett. Not a good | :37:56. | :38:09. | |
shot, but it was an opportunity coming from a deep free kick | :38:10. | :38:13. | |
launched into the centre of the box. That shows the importance of keeping | :38:14. | :38:22. | |
your discipline. Stay on your feet. It is quite a story for Russell | :38:23. | :38:27. | |
Anderson. Left Aberdeen in 2007, injury problems throughout his time | :38:28. | :38:31. | |
at Sunderland and Derby County, came back to Aberdeen, and it is not just | :38:32. | :38:40. | |
about the number of games since, but the level at which she has played | :38:41. | :38:44. | |
at. Mr consistent at the back for the Dons. | :38:45. | :38:51. | |
It is Draper, for Inverness. Caught by Flood. There was a stage when I | :38:52. | :39:10. | |
thought Russell's career might be over. He would have had an even | :39:11. | :39:17. | |
greater career but for the injuries he suffered. Away by Jack. Pressure | :39:18. | :39:27. | |
from Vincent. Flood is there. Cleaned up by Marley Watkins. There | :39:28. | :39:42. | |
is plenty needle. It is a cup final. If there wasn't that combative | :39:43. | :39:45. | |
attitude and people preparing to be physical, there would be something | :39:46. | :39:54. | |
far wrong. This is a cup final. Free kick by Langfield. Robson does well. | :39:55. | :40:08. | |
Richie Foran finds Shinnie. The second half, similar in style to | :40:09. | :40:16. | |
what we saw in the opening 45. Smith emerging victorious, the ball was | :40:17. | :40:25. | |
taken by Shinnie. Considine wins it back for the Reds. Niall McGinn. | :40:26. | :40:40. | |
Draper was being fouled. Free kick from Inverness. Finding Watkins. | :40:41. | :40:48. | |
Billy McKay. A good run forward from Vincent. Goes to Raven instead. | :40:49. | :40:58. | |
Tries to cross. Flood as they are. Considine. Niall McGinn. Macari. | :40:59. | :41:13. | |
Reynolds was the barrier. Small margins. For the first time, | :41:14. | :41:25. | |
Inverness have more men in the box. Barry Robson. Jack, to Flood. The | :41:26. | :41:45. | |
guys in the studio were talking at half-time about whether Aberdeen | :41:46. | :41:48. | |
were being quick enough coming forward. Sideways passing in the | :41:49. | :41:55. | |
midfield, trying to get Adam Rooney in the game, and Cammie Smith is the | :41:56. | :42:00. | |
man to try to do that. There is the national coach. Gordon Strachan. | :42:01. | :42:07. | |
Enjoying proceedings, McKay feigns Vincent, but did he get the ball? | :42:08. | :42:21. | |
The referee was very close. Stop start. Seven minutes into the second | :42:22. | :42:30. | |
half. The latest decision that the referee has had to make. Against | :42:31. | :42:50. | |
Vincent. Free kick, taken quickly. There is nowhere really for Russell | :42:51. | :42:56. | |
Anderson to go. McKay chasing the Dons skipper. Rooney. That breaks | :42:57. | :43:09. | |
nicely for Shinnie. He has McKay ahead of him. Incomes Anderson. | :43:10. | :43:17. | |
Marginally, Inverness have started the second half better. They must be | :43:18. | :43:26. | |
careful, Aberdeen, not to allow the game to become stretched. They just | :43:27. | :43:35. | |
have to be a little bit careful. That is a corner. They cannot try to | :43:36. | :43:43. | |
counter attack every single time they win the ball, at times you must | :43:44. | :43:47. | |
just pass it out, get it to Rooney, world like that. -- build. | :43:48. | :44:00. | |
Shinnie. Clattering into Considine. Still in play. Tansey. It looked | :44:01. | :44:17. | |
like he had overrun that slightly. Barry Robson thought that was an | :44:18. | :44:43. | |
Aberdeen ball. Some of the best performances from Aberdeen this | :44:44. | :44:47. | |
season have come against teams that have attacked them, not against | :44:48. | :44:50. | |
opponents who have sat in. But Inverness are doing their fair share | :44:51. | :45:04. | |
of attacking right now. Devine. Good play by Watkins, to Draper. Good | :45:05. | :45:10. | |
covering by Reynolds. Inside to Jack. He is having to go backwards. | :45:11. | :45:20. | |
Trooper closing down Reynolds. -- Draper. Reynolds jitters, Watkins | :45:21. | :45:31. | |
was offside, which is why Reynolds delayed the run. I think he has the | :45:32. | :45:40. | |
decision right in the end. Almost blocked, the ball went to Raven, but | :45:41. | :45:49. | |
the need to be quicker, get rid of the ball. | :45:50. | :45:58. | |
It has been the quality in the final third in open play that Aberdeen | :45:59. | :46:08. | |
have struggled with. Absolutely, Mike Reynolds needs to hold it up | :46:09. | :46:15. | |
upfront, give his midfield time, even to get beyond him. -- Mark | :46:16. | :46:21. | |
Reynolds. And Aberdeen are not getting out. Logan losing out to | :46:22. | :46:34. | |
Vincent on the outside, getting the throw. Cammy Smith, barely getting a | :46:35. | :46:42. | |
touch of the ball in this deck and period. -- second period. Inverness | :46:43. | :46:50. | |
fans trying to put Aberdeen off there from behind the goal. | :46:51. | :47:00. | |
Was Smith caught by Tansey? No. Cammy Smith get boot to get on the | :47:01. | :47:13. | |
ball, but Caley Thistle not letting him. The referee not interested | :47:14. | :47:16. | |
there in the appeals of Aberdeen. Billy McKay did brilliantly there. | :47:17. | :47:33. | |
Three Aberdeen players trying to defend against them, but still | :47:34. | :47:38. | |
managing to wrestle the ball back to one of his own players. As this -- a | :47:39. | :47:50. | |
zest about Caley Thistle that has been the four weeks. -- been there | :47:51. | :47:54. | |
for weeks. I think he will be editing that from | :47:55. | :48:20. | |
the playback, should Inverness go on to win this. I do not think... He | :48:21. | :48:29. | |
looked down at the ball, and I do not think he fancied heading it with | :48:30. | :48:31. | |
his left boot, and he had no choice. Only really religion had therefore | :48:32. | :48:54. | |
Logan, -- only really Rooney to hit. The formation and Aberdeen | :48:55. | :49:00. | |
causing problems. Not much space around the penalty area. | :49:01. | :49:23. | |
Space opening up for Aberdeen at last. Graeme Shinnie to deny Logan. | :49:24. | :49:34. | |
The speaking to Aberdeen fans and football yesterday, B1 speaking | :49:35. | :49:39. | |
about Peter Pawlett. And here is McGinn, you cannot underestimate the | :49:40. | :49:45. | |
importance of the players not out there. And Jonny Hayes coming off | :49:46. | :49:58. | |
within minutes, Peter Pawlett not playing at all, huge blows for | :49:59. | :50:04. | |
Aberdeen. Caley Thistle finds calling for handball there. -- fans. | :50:05. | :50:15. | |
James Vincent all over Ryan Jack, closing down options. Reynolds | :50:16. | :50:25. | |
looking for Rooney, Aberdeen pushed into the long ball almost all stop | :50:26. | :50:29. | |
Inverness doing that well, letting them come so far. Keeping them in a | :50:30. | :50:43. | |
position. Billy McKay between them. Corralled into this corner, putting | :50:44. | :50:46. | |
pressure on the ball, forcing a long pass. Good play by Inverness. That | :50:47. | :50:54. | |
is one hour gone, could be another hour if there is extra time. | :50:55. | :51:12. | |
Langfield keeping an eye on that, drops it, but bailed out by | :51:13. | :51:18. | |
Anderson. Horrible for Jamie Langfield! A major let off for | :51:19. | :51:27. | |
Aberdeen. Caley Thistle will take confidence from that as Reynolds | :51:28. | :51:39. | |
fouls McKay, and are good moment for Inverness. A difficult moment for | :51:40. | :51:45. | |
goalkeepers, not much to do, flapping at that one, needs to be | :51:46. | :51:51. | |
more decisive, but got away with it. And Reynolds outstretched right leg | :51:52. | :51:55. | |
on Billy McKay, the foul that led to the free kick. Last week against | :51:56. | :52:02. | |
Dumbarton, Jamie Langfield dropped one or two, helped out by his | :52:03. | :52:08. | |
captain on that occasion as well. Over 30 yards out, they should not | :52:09. | :52:13. | |
be a threat to Jamie Langfield, but they need to be aware of the second | :52:14. | :52:18. | |
ball off the post or the bar, the ricochet, and we have to defend the | :52:19. | :52:24. | |
second ball as well. Jamie Langfield forced into the save. The gifts | :52:25. | :52:33. | |
possession straight back to Caley Thistle. -- he gifts. A good opening | :52:34. | :52:41. | |
16-17 minutes to the second half for Inverness. | :52:42. | :53:01. | |
Adam Rooney is increasingly looking like an isolated figure up for | :53:02. | :53:11. | |
Aberdeen. Aaron Doran should be on in a moment for Caley Thistle. James | :53:12. | :53:16. | |
Vincent will be the player to make way by the sounds of things. I think | :53:17. | :53:22. | |
the start of the second half, Inverness have taken possession away | :53:23. | :53:28. | |
from Aberdeen. John Hughes has said to them at half-time I think that | :53:29. | :53:33. | |
any doubts they may have had where dispelled in the first half by their | :53:34. | :53:37. | |
performance, no to try and find another game, and I think they have | :53:38. | :53:43. | |
done that. -- now to try. At this moment, they look like the likely | :53:44. | :53:48. | |
team. Aaron Doran, from County Court, would have been gutted to | :53:49. | :53:54. | |
have been left out at the start. -- County Cork. Now playing for the | :53:55. | :54:00. | |
remainder of the game. It is a free kick for Graeme Shinnie, but away by | :54:01. | :54:03. | |
Anderson. A lot of the pace out of the | :54:04. | :54:21. | |
Aberdeen team, that we would normally see on a weekly basis, | :54:22. | :54:25. | |
coming up with new ways of attacking their opponents. | :54:26. | :54:52. | |
It is the way the game has been played, is that sitting Caley | :54:53. | :54:59. | |
Thistle better? I think Caley Thistle at the moment, Tansey and | :55:00. | :55:11. | |
Draper not giving Ryan Jack Willo Flood the chance to get the ball | :55:12. | :55:25. | |
down and make passes. Considine has a long throw on him. Meekings | :55:26. | :55:39. | |
conceded it. The short option for Smith. Aberdeen were in the final | :55:40. | :55:50. | |
third inside their own half year. -- here. An awkward one for Anderson, | :55:51. | :55:56. | |
Doran was in behind him. Oh, dear! Aberdeen have to stretch | :55:57. | :56:23. | |
Inverness across the pitch, if they stretch the ball quickly from one | :56:24. | :56:28. | |
side to the other, because as long as it is going through the middle, | :56:29. | :56:31. | |
Inverness John Nimmo, bodies in there, more ambition, -- Inverness | :56:32. | :56:37. | |
are in a strong position in the middle. Aberdeen need to get the | :56:38. | :56:41. | |
ball down the side. John Hughes seems quite happy. | :56:42. | :56:54. | |
Billy McKay knows Aaron Doran has pace, intelligently done by Robson. | :56:55. | :57:05. | |
Their defence of Inverness has been terrific, The Times McKay has been | :57:06. | :57:11. | |
isolated, but he has done well at times to put Aberdeen under | :57:12. | :57:15. | |
pressure, allowing him to get ten behind the ball, -- to get time | :57:16. | :57:21. | |
behind the ball, making it difficult for Aberdeen. Humming towards the | :57:22. | :57:27. | |
final quarter of the 90 minutes -- coming towards. | :57:28. | :57:48. | |
Logan went long, but it was too high for Rooney. Rooney in Abilene is -- | :57:49. | :58:05. | |
in brilliant space, but only if McGinn could have found him. Better | :58:06. | :58:12. | |
from Aberdeen, Rooney finding himself in an Aberdeen, but who are | :58:13. | :58:22. | |
from Ryan Jack again. -- but poor. It is the first time we have seen | :58:23. | :58:30. | |
open play and Adam Rooney in a good area. You'll he ended up running a | :58:31. | :58:35. | |
bit wide, ended up almost in the corner. Give his team an opportunity | :58:36. | :58:41. | |
which no one was able to get on the end of, but motoring courage in for | :58:42. | :58:46. | |
Aberdeen. Nicky Low will come on for Aberdeen in a minute or two, not | :58:47. | :58:50. | |
sure who is coming off yet. Barry Robson? | :58:51. | :59:07. | |
Good possession from Aberdeen, better from them in the last couple | :59:08. | :59:14. | |
of minutes, Robson with an ambitious effort. That was over, 35 yards out, | :59:15. | :59:22. | |
it will take a good strike from there to score. They need to keep | :59:23. | :59:27. | |
passing the ball. You said before he took that shot, better possession, | :59:28. | :59:32. | |
keep the ball. Cammy Smith who came on in the first half, coming off in | :59:33. | :59:37. | |
the second half to be replaced by Nicky Low. Hard decisions sometimes | :59:38. | :59:41. | |
for a manager, putting the player on, a little bit of a change, so I | :59:42. | :59:48. | |
do not think it can be ruled to Anfield, the light coming on, doing | :59:49. | :59:53. | |
well, looking willing to come on the ball. -- it cannot be ruled to | :59:54. | :59:58. | |
Anfield. He made a decent contribution was to was out there. | :59:59. | :00:03. | |
-- too unfair. Jonny Hayes with a soldier -- with a shoulder injury, | :00:04. | :00:08. | |
we spoke to him and he does not think he has broken anything, but it | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
is a collarbone problem, he could be out for a good few weeks. But Nick | :00:14. | :00:24. | |
Lowe, he looks as though he could do a job in midfield. The Dons | :00:25. | :00:34. | |
supporters really rate him. Just one change left for Aberdeen, Thistle | :00:35. | :00:42. | |
have a couple, 20 minutes to go. 0-0, nothing between them. The | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
closer we get to full time, the more nervous it becomes all -- and Adam | :00:50. | :00:58. | |
Rooney is on his own opportunity for Aberdeen. It shows | :00:59. | :01:39. | |
the importance of staying concentrated. Craig Brown, elder | :01:40. | :02:07. | |
statesman. Succeeded by Derek McInnes. | :02:08. | :02:31. | |
Shinnie. Anderson. Richie Foran wins a free kick. 51,143 inside Celtic | :02:32. | :02:49. | |
Park today. 40,000 supporting Aberdeen. A good crowd. A fantastic | :02:50. | :03:00. | |
atmosphere, both supports deserve a lot of credit, they have come a long | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
way. Langfield, changed his mind, comes again. Nervous moments for | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
Aberdeen. They had some against Dumbarton last week. When Thistle | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
get the ball in the box, it is the same thing. Mark Reynolds is playing | :03:19. | :03:26. | |
a dangerous game. He has got a hold of the jersey Draper. The linesman | :03:27. | :03:34. | |
could clearly see it being tugged. He has got to be careful, he could | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
give away a penalty for absolutely nothing. It could be crucial. That | :03:39. | :03:48. | |
kind of decision. That is strong from Rooney. He has got jack to the | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
right. This is him now. Now Nicky low. Robson. Lowe Full is Inverness | :03:55. | :04:07. | |
are well drilled at the back. Better. They are keeping the ball. | :04:08. | :04:28. | |
It came from Rooney. He kept the ball for his team, gave them a | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
platform. Now they have a corner kick. Anderson and Considine wait. | :04:33. | :04:42. | |
They scored at that end in the Scottish cup match against Celtic | :04:43. | :04:51. | |
here. There was a push. You sometimes wonder where the free kick | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
is, but referees see things when everybody is pooling and fishing. -- | :04:55. | :05:08. | |
pulling and pushing. Just a little push from Adam Rooney. Just over 15 | :05:09. | :05:16. | |
minutes to go. It looks like a game where one goal might decide that. | :05:17. | :05:26. | |
Inverness are only here because Nick Ross scored the deep into stoppage | :05:27. | :05:34. | |
time against Heart of Midlothian when they were down to nine men. | :05:35. | :05:44. | |
This is right in the melting pot. Inverness have had a fantastic half | :05:45. | :05:52. | |
hour. Have they run out of energy? Do they still have the energy to | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
maintain it? Aberdeen are starting to claw their way back into it. | :05:58. | :06:05. | |
We'll John Hughes be disappointed that they have not really tested | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
Jamie Langfield? I think he will be, they have been on the front foot | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
without managing to create a clear-cut chance. Richie Foran. | :06:15. | :06:26. | |
McKay. Good defending by Mark Reynolds. Not for the first time | :06:27. | :06:34. | |
this season. Flood. That was for Robson. In goes Richie Foran. They | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
throw to Inverness. Combative players, going for the | :06:39. | :06:58. | |
same ball. Richie Foran will fight to the last today. Greg Tansey. | :06:59. | :07:11. | |
Shinnie. Shrugging off Lowe. Anderson heads clear. It falls for | :07:12. | :07:21. | |
Robson. An extra half an hour is a big possibility. Nicky Lowe. Logan. | :07:22. | :07:45. | |
Flood, inside for Jack. Lowe Full. He got an early winner against Ross | :07:46. | :08:09. | |
County in a league game. The Dons are seeing more of the ball now. | :08:10. | :08:18. | |
Reynolds. McGinn. Not that much movement ahead of him. Flood. The | :08:19. | :08:26. | |
easy ball to Ryan Jack who has a pop, saved, and saved again from | :08:27. | :08:36. | |
Rooney! Robson goes down and wins a free kick just outside the box. | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
Better play again. We talked about working the ball wide. Eventually | :08:44. | :08:50. | |
they came inside and got a good shot. A really dangerous position. A | :08:51. | :08:58. | |
wonderful area for Aberdeen to try to exploit. Inverness about to make | :08:59. | :09:07. | |
a substitution. The crucial goal scorer from the semifinal penalty | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
shoot out, as replacement for Watkins. In the meantime, Aberdeen | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
free kick, level with the penalty shot. It is for McGinn. Only fresh | :09:17. | :09:33. | |
air. Willo Flood. Towards Anderson, but too high. That was from the | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
training ground, that free kick. We saw similar from the Scotland team | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
against Estonia when Charlie Mulgrew and Charlie Adam worked a free kick | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
just as McGinn did they are, but it did not quite reach. Off goes | :09:51. | :10:01. | |
Watkins. He has done a power of work. Perhaps tired. And a proud | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
moment for 22-year-old Nick Ross. Playing for his local team. He got | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
that crucial equaliser against Heart of Midlothian in the semifinals, | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
deep into stoppage time. He would have loved to have started today but | :10:19. | :10:25. | |
there are still plenty of football to be played this afternoon as we | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
head towards the final ten minutes of normal time all -- with more to | :10:30. | :10:44. | |
lose with every minute that passes. Inverness kicked another free kick. | :10:45. | :10:55. | |
It is getting to that stage, Mark, we, if you score, there is not much | :10:56. | :11:02. | |
time to see it out. Yes, and nerves start to come in when the other team | :11:03. | :11:14. | |
get near your golf. -- goal. Strong play from Considine. A push from | :11:15. | :11:27. | |
Rooney, Meeking was not happy. And Aberdeen ball. Awkward for Devine, | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
he ended up leaving it. Get away with it. Aberdeen have scored 14 | :11:34. | :11:41. | |
times in the last ten minutes of matches this season, John Hughes | :11:42. | :11:49. | |
will be aware of that. Anderson underneath it. It takes an awkward | :11:50. | :11:58. | |
bounce which Devine heads away. Considine. McGinn. That is not a bad | :11:59. | :12:12. | |
switch. The Northern Irishman finds Logan. Jack. Logan. When Aberdeen | :12:13. | :12:25. | |
lost to Partick Thistle recently, Logan did not play. Rooney. Robson. | :12:26. | :12:37. | |
Aberdeen, stroking their chins a little bit here, trying to work out | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
how to get past this thick blue wall. Inverness are resolute, but as | :12:42. | :12:51. | |
the game approaches its conclusion, they are less likely to be able to | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
break from this deep position, so Aberdeen must remain patient and | :12:56. | :13:02. | |
keep passing the ball. Flood, Jack, has to be quick, Dorans for company. | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
Logan. Aberdeen attacking the end of the | :13:07. | :13:25. | |
ground that they are fans are at. Barry Robson the sizes up another | :13:26. | :13:37. | |
one. Forced to save again, Brill, that was the best effort of the | :13:38. | :13:44. | |
match from Barry Robson so far. Aberdeen have by far had the best | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
chances of the game. Inverness tested Jamie Langfield when he had a | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
flap at a cross early on. Flood making a run. It is left for | :13:57. | :14:06. | |
Considine, not a good touch. Had that been better, that could have | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
been a shot on goal, it could have been the League Cup. What an | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
opportunity, I think you took it with his right foot which is not his | :14:16. | :14:24. | |
best. Now, he took it with his left. As you say, it could have probably | :14:25. | :14:31. | |
won the cup. But Aberdeen have stolen the initiative back. Both | :14:32. | :14:38. | |
sets of supporters are cranking up the volume. Six minutes to go, plus | :14:39. | :14:47. | |
injury time. If it stays like this, extra time. Reynolds, towards | :14:48. | :15:02. | |
Rooney, but too much on it. I think the Aberdeen supporters have sensed | :15:03. | :15:10. | |
their team have found some energy. In numbers, they cannot get up the | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
part as much as they can, Inverness, so Aberdeen can keep them | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
camped in their at least until the final whistle. Having to manage with | :15:21. | :15:30. | |
less men for both teams and previews -- in previous games. Caley Thistle | :15:31. | :15:41. | |
supporters away to the right. What a day it is the their club. Only two | :15:42. | :15:49. | |
decades old and a major national Cup final. Five minutes from time, | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
though. If there is to be a goal now, you would think that would seal | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
the trophy. Handball, but missed. It is a Caley Thistle | :16:00. | :16:18. | |
corner. He makes that spring to the front post. Giving themselves an | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
opportunity. He beats Russell Anderson to the ball at the near | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
post, an opportunity to score, but blocked, added as a corner tech. | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
This is where Inverness have to be careful. -- it is a corner kick. Do | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
not switch off, Niall McGinn is there, they cannot take their eyes | :16:42. | :16:53. | |
off him. It is in the air, Richie Foran claimed it, I think he was | :16:54. | :17:01. | |
foiled. -- fouled. Steven MacLean not interested. I think it is Andy | :17:02. | :17:10. | |
Considine, is it? Definitely two hands. And Richie Foran is raging! | :17:11. | :17:26. | |
It definitely had his hands, arguments therefore a penalty, -- | :17:27. | :17:33. | |
there for a penalty, but maybe balancing out from previous | :17:34. | :17:34. | |
decisions. The best defences in the | :17:35. | :17:47. | |
Premiership. That has been given state to Niall McGinn, and a goal | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
kick, I thought Josh Meekings had touched that initially, and a | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
massive chance for Aberdeen goes a-begging. I thought he was going to | :17:59. | :18:06. | |
school there. The defender doing well to put him under pressure. He | :18:07. | :18:13. | |
tries to lift it over him, but he has to do better. Josh Meekings had | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
his team-mates all over him, it came off the defender. No corner. Just | :18:21. | :18:27. | |
wonderful defending from Josh Meekings in any case. It might not | :18:28. | :18:37. | |
-- might not be credited for that, because he did not go for the | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
corner. Two minutes, plus stoppage time. Nothing each. | :18:43. | :18:57. | |
Reynolds controls. Aberdeen fans baying for blood. But no foul. | :18:58. | :19:14. | |
-thereby McKay on Anderson. Just that the row being given? -- that | :19:15. | :19:21. | |
was their by. Billy McKay went straight to the | :19:22. | :19:38. | |
assisting referee on the near side. Not happy the free kick was given. | :19:39. | :19:46. | |
It is looking like extra time, Mark McGhee. I will take it, enjoying | :19:47. | :19:55. | |
this, at a recognised -- terrifically contested Cup final. | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
Different style, Inverness defending themselves against Aberdeen. Nicky | :20:00. | :20:06. | |
Low Goodson on Dean Brill, but Dean Brill got there just before. -- | :20:07. | :20:14. | |
Nicky Low goes in. there have been chances at both ends, mostly | :20:15. | :20:22. | |
Aberdeen, but a terrific final. Does Nick Ross have any last-minute | :20:23. | :20:30. | |
heroics up his sleeve question waiting to find out how much | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
stoppage time has been added. McGinn has it, but many Inverness | :20:34. | :20:49. | |
players. And three minutes added at the end. | :20:50. | :21:16. | |
It dropped nicely for Aaron Doran, Caley Thistle on the counter now, | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
just over one minute to go. If 14 macro -- if Doran had got it | :21:23. | :21:45. | |
through McKay there. One end to the other right now. Still in play. | :21:46. | :21:53. | |
Richie Foran had no right to win that ball. And he has won Inverness | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
a free kick, and what an area and what a free kick to concede by Shae | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
Logan. unnecessary, but the boy is tired, running a long way to get | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
back in there. Foran came down, but a free kick being given to put the | :22:13. | :22:19. | |
team and the pressure in these last seconds. Aberdeen not going to be | :22:20. | :22:30. | |
given another chance. In a game by Graeme Shinnie, the referee spotting | :22:31. | :22:38. | |
something. Russell Anderson and Draper, I think, having a wrestling | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
match, I do not know who issues bonds of old. But it has happened | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
throughout the game. -- I do not know who is responsible. It is a | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
retake of the free kick. Inverness still have a chance. Anderson | :22:56. | :23:03. | |
playing a dangerous game there. Anderson marking Draper. | :23:04. | :23:17. | |
It is looking like extra time. In fact it is. The Scottish League Cup | :23:18. | :23:27. | |
final ends goalless after 90 minutes. There has been nothing | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
between Anderson, the best chances without a doubt link to Derek | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
McInnes' Aberdeen, but John Hughes' side so well drilled, quite the | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
opposite in their previous two games, the match against Hibernian, | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
the back-to-back losses by Celtic and then of course to Dundee United | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
last Sunday. It means we have another 30 minutes to enjoy. Or | :23:53. | :24:00. | |
insular if you support these games -- or endure if you support these | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
teams. Maybe not surprising if the are so | :24:05. | :24:15. | |
inseparable, another half hour to come, and maybe a penalty shoot out | :24:16. | :24:24. | |
to follow. Who is your money on, Charlie? I think the last 20 | :24:25. | :24:34. | |
minutes, Caley Thistle dropping ten yards of the game. Could the midweek | :24:35. | :24:42. | |
fixture be a factor question mark --? I think so. Aberdeen seemed to | :24:43. | :24:53. | |
be in the ascendancy. Some good opportunities, such as the Niall | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
McGinn effort. Not sure if you took the flexion. -- took the flexion. | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
Aberdeen look to have more energy and strength. -- deflection. It is | :25:05. | :25:11. | |
difficult to call, full marks to Caley Thistle giving it everything | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
they could possibly have given for their manager. And on the back of | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
recent results, they have to be applauded for that, but Aberdeen | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
looking stronger. We saw Richie Foran and the referee not quite | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
kissing and making up, but having some exchanges, all about the | :25:33. | :25:39. | |
penalty claim we saw. One in the first half, but what about the | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
challenge by Andy Considine on Richie Foran? | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
With arms all over the attackers, you're giving opportunities. For me, | :25:49. | :25:59. | |
that is a penalty kick. The first half was one for Aberdeen, that was | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
certainly one for Inverness. It is pretty blatant, two arms round about | :26:06. | :26:13. | |
Foran, I think, and Andy Considine taking a chance there. I think the | :26:14. | :26:20. | |
referee can look at that one. Let us look at Nile McGinn's Janz. He could | :26:21. | :26:27. | |
have won it for Aberdeen. -- Niall McGinn's Janz. -- | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
Chance. The ball seems to change, he will be disappointed with that. That | :26:34. | :26:47. | |
just about sums up the day for Niall McGinn, it has not been his days so | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
far, lacking urgency. And whether it was the flexion -- deflection, it | :26:54. | :27:02. | |
just has not happened. Another 30 minutes, no back to Mark and Liam. | :27:03. | :27:10. | |
-- now back. Extra time has been required in 15 | :27:11. | :27:13. | |
of the previous doing well to get to the showpiece | :27:14. | :28:08. | |
final. He has not been as influential as he might have hoped, | :28:09. | :28:15. | |
Niall McGinn, but he is the one that might make a pass and might make a | :28:16. | :28:23. | |
run or he might score the goal, even though he is missing what looks like | :28:24. | :28:28. | |
a glaring opportunity. He still looks to have energy, which is | :28:29. | :28:31. | |
important. Inverness still hemming Aberdeen in | :28:32. | :28:45. | |
here. Richie Foran having a discussion with his team-mates, | :28:46. | :28:49. | |
taking over from John Hughes just before extra time got underway. And | :28:50. | :28:59. | |
Aberdeen ball. -- an Aberdeen ball. Aberdeen have won the League Cup | :29:00. | :29:05. | |
after extra time before, beating Rangers in 1989, Paul Mason with two | :29:06. | :29:18. | |
goals that they at Hampden. -- that day. | :29:19. | :29:51. | |
Good play by Draper. Trying to find McKay. From open play, Caley Thistle | :29:52. | :30:03. | |
have not really troubled Aberdeen. Most of the time they only have one | :30:04. | :30:08. | |
option, McKay, and unless they get it to him, they do not create | :30:09. | :30:15. | |
clear-cut chances. But they have times when his movement has been | :30:16. | :30:18. | |
really good and if they got the ball to him, he could either one. Be the | :30:19. | :30:34. | |
one. RU looking at Mark Reynolds for the national team? We'll look at all | :30:35. | :30:42. | |
Scottish players. Peter Pawlett is another one. We have our eyes on any | :30:43. | :30:48. | |
players who can benefit us, that is for sure. This is Reynolds. These | :30:49. | :31:05. | |
two have had pretty much the best defences all season, despite Celtic | :31:06. | :31:15. | |
running away with the league. Jack for Robson. Devine, just as enough. | :31:16. | :31:38. | |
A foul against McGinn. John Hughes has done a terrific job of preparing | :31:39. | :31:50. | |
his team today. The shape they have started with, keeping their | :31:51. | :31:55. | |
positions, Tansey and Draper, doing a terrific job, Richie Foran, | :31:56. | :32:00. | |
McKay, physically, they have been outstanding in the middle of the | :32:01. | :32:10. | |
park. John Hughes and Russell Latapy were on opposing League Cup final | :32:11. | :32:14. | |
side once upon a time, Rangers versus United. -- Ayr Utd. Jack. He | :32:15. | :32:34. | |
really has not had a look in. Robson, to Jack. McGinn. He is going | :32:35. | :32:48. | |
to shoot. Nicky Lowe is asking, why did I not get the pass? Tired legs. | :32:49. | :32:56. | |
I think at this stage of the game, he just wanted to get the shot away. | :32:57. | :33:10. | |
McGinn did have Lowe to his right. Such a good chance he had for | :33:11. | :33:14. | |
Aberdeen in the last few minutes of normal time, Niall McGinn. A shove | :33:15. | :33:26. | |
their own Draper. -- there on Draper. The best outlet for Caley | :33:27. | :33:33. | |
Thistle is free kicks right now. They can float them in and have such | :33:34. | :33:41. | |
an aerial threat. Frustration for Richie Foran. Those sorts of free | :33:42. | :33:52. | |
kicks will be opportunities, so they must do better than that. The centre | :33:53. | :33:58. | |
half has gone all the way up, an opportunity to get a head on it. | :33:59. | :34:04. | |
Caley Thistle came through after extra time and penalties on the | :34:05. | :34:12. | |
semifinals. Aberdeen, early in the competition, required a penalty | :34:13. | :34:22. | |
shoot out against Alloa. That was way back in August. | :34:23. | :34:40. | |
Nick away by Nick Ross. Considine. Tansey with a mess, that has allowed | :34:41. | :34:59. | |
Niall McGinn to run at Devine, was he in the box? Right on the edge | :35:00. | :35:18. | |
says the referee! You can see it in the super slow motion. Just outside | :35:19. | :35:27. | |
the box. Right on the edge. But that is what Aberdeen need from Niall | :35:28. | :35:34. | |
McGinn, to nick the ball up and run. He has put his team in a right good | :35:35. | :35:37. | |
position, a big opportunity for Aberdeen. They have capable players. | :35:38. | :35:45. | |
Robson has scored from free kicks in the past. A huge moment in this | :35:46. | :35:55. | |
game, potentially. McGinn and Robson stand over it. McGinn believing it. | :35:56. | :36:04. | |
The left foot of Barry Robson. Former Caley Thistle player. It is a | :36:05. | :36:13. | |
let down. We have seen him do it. We know he has it in his locker. A good | :36:14. | :36:22. | |
opportunity. He is better than that, Barry Robson. The Inverness | :36:23. | :36:26. | |
supporters behind the goal enjoyed that. Thistle making their final | :36:27. | :36:35. | |
change of the match. A proud moment for a man in our studio, Charlie | :36:36. | :36:40. | |
Christie, that is his boy, Brian, about to come on. And he really does | :36:41. | :36:49. | |
look the business. Richie Foran. One last salute of the Thistle | :36:50. | :36:57. | |
supporters. A huge moment for Christie. 18 years old. Already | :36:58. | :37:06. | |
seems to be a favourite with the Thistle supporters, as his father | :37:07. | :37:19. | |
was. And still is! Richie Foran can go off with a lot of credit. He has | :37:20. | :37:26. | |
brilliantly led his team during this game. It is now to an 18-year-old to | :37:27. | :37:31. | |
try to win them the game and what a story that would be. But I think | :37:32. | :37:36. | |
Richie Foran did really, really well. Ten minutes into extra time | :37:37. | :37:51. | |
now. The challenge by Lowe, on Christie. Does he have something up | :37:52. | :38:02. | |
his sleeve, like his old man did in a Scottish cup tie here in 2000? | :38:03. | :38:14. | |
That famous victory over Celtic. Graeme Shinnie, with an up and | :38:15. | :38:19. | |
under. It has become scrappy in extra time. But there is so much to | :38:20. | :38:28. | |
lose. Tired legs and tired minds. If somebody makes a mistake, falls | :38:29. | :38:34. | |
over, you have lost a cup final. Flood try to slip it forward to | :38:35. | :38:43. | |
McGinn, Raven was there, now it is Dorans, taking on Jack. Draper. | :38:44. | :38:54. | |
Ross. Dorans. They are finding pockets. That is a free kick, and | :38:55. | :39:02. | |
that is an opportunity as well. We make excuses for them, they are | :39:03. | :39:11. | |
tired, but will Mark Reynolds room that tackle? -- rue. The substitute | :39:12. | :39:23. | |
is given Inverness a different dimension to the one James Vincent | :39:24. | :39:29. | |
gave them before. Jamie Langfield, organising his wall. We were talking | :39:30. | :39:37. | |
about fine margins. Three Inverness players stand over this one. | :39:38. | :39:43. | |
Christie, Tansey, Shinnie. It is Tansey! It is over. Same result as | :39:44. | :39:53. | |
the Barry Robson free kick. Test of the goalkeeper. Put it in an area | :39:54. | :40:01. | |
where somebody might get a ricochet. But to clear it over the | :40:02. | :40:05. | |
bar, at this stage, you must do better. Tansey trying to arch it | :40:06. | :40:14. | |
away from Jamie Langfield. Arts did away from the goal in the end. -- | :40:15. | :40:24. | |
arched it. Rooney ventures it and keeps it in play. There has been no | :40:25. | :40:32. | |
real change to the way the game has been played in extra time. Much as | :40:33. | :40:55. | |
we saw in the 90. Couple of minutes of the first period to go. Ross. | :40:56. | :41:15. | |
Dorans. Ross. Tackle from Flood, but it still breaks for Caley Thistle. | :41:16. | :41:24. | |
Dorans again. Goes for gold... Langfield taking no chances! The | :41:25. | :41:34. | |
first real safety has had to make. -- real save he has had to make. It | :41:35. | :41:42. | |
is a good save, he moves his feet quickly and puts it behind. Dorans, | :41:43. | :41:57. | |
Meekings. He knows and that was an opportunity. Plenty behind the | :41:58. | :42:01. | |
header, but could not hit the target. Has not scored this season. | :42:02. | :42:10. | |
It would be some occasion to get your first. One minute being added | :42:11. | :42:18. | |
on at the end of the first period of extra time. It is McKay. Considine. | :42:19. | :42:40. | |
Robson came short. For Considine again. He ran into a cul-de-sac. | :42:41. | :42:54. | |
Back to Robson. Rooney. But there was never any danger of that | :42:55. | :43:02. | |
troubling the goalkeeper. Who is the happier manager? They have both put | :43:03. | :43:10. | |
down their notebooks and pencils, they have just resigned themselves | :43:11. | :43:17. | |
to seeing this finishes. -- how this finishes. But nobody can tell at | :43:18. | :43:32. | |
this moment in time. Have time in extra time is imminent. There is the | :43:33. | :43:40. | |
end of the first period of extra time. We are now closer to finding | :43:41. | :43:47. | |
out who is going to win. We are closer, time wise, because there is | :43:48. | :43:51. | |
15 minutes between a potential penalty shoot out. How do you assess | :43:52. | :43:59. | |
things when it is still so close? There is a danger that the game | :44:00. | :44:04. | |
becomes stretched. You win possession, try to run up the other | :44:05. | :44:08. | |
end, lose the ball, suddenly you are all over the pitch. You need | :44:09. | :44:13. | |
patience and to make the other team work. If Aberdeen can get the ball | :44:14. | :44:20. | |
to Rooney or McKay that is their best shape. That will leave them | :44:21. | :44:32. | |
wide open to a soft goal. Still plenty of smiles from Aberdeen. They | :44:33. | :44:40. | |
will make a change, Scott Vernon. He scored a hat-trick against Falkirk | :44:41. | :44:47. | |
in an earlier victory in the competition, a 5-0 win against the | :44:48. | :44:52. | |
championship side. Although he has put his jumper back on. Joining the | :44:53. | :45:06. | |
team talk. Aberdeen's Cup finals, they have had to play extra time on | :45:07. | :45:14. | |
five occasions, a replay against Dundee United, lost. They have won | :45:15. | :45:21. | |
two of the five extra time finals. Against Celtic in 1976, 1977, and | :45:22. | :45:33. | |
against Rangers in 19 89-1990 -- 1989-1990. Scott Vernon not coming | :45:34. | :45:42. | |
and right now, but an option for a penalty shoot out. Rooney still | :45:43. | :45:48. | |
looking like he can get a goal. McGinn still has an energy. Maybe | :45:49. | :45:54. | |
waiting for the moment to bring Vernon on, possibly if it goes as | :45:55. | :46:01. | |
far as a penalty shoot out. How is your nerves? The supporters' | :46:02. | :46:13. | |
nerves will be shredded. 15 minutes of actual football still to be | :46:14. | :46:20. | |
played. The penalties will be taken away to your right. The goal is just | :46:21. | :46:28. | |
in front of the Inverness Caley Thistle supporters. Both teams would | :46:29. | :46:34. | |
rather get it done before then. David Raven finds Nick Ross. Niall | :46:35. | :46:46. | |
McGinn for Aberdeen closing down so well. Ross Draper all over him. Ross | :46:47. | :46:55. | |
Draper has been terrific, getting it forward up to Billy McKay, | :46:56. | :47:01. | |
physically in both boxes, doing a great job in the middle of the park. | :47:02. | :47:09. | |
Raven trying to feed it back there. Just a lucky there. -- just unlucky | :47:10. | :47:20. | |
there. The Dons looking at their best if they get into the right | :47:21. | :47:24. | |
areas. It was not the way, but is now from | :47:25. | :47:42. | |
Tansey. A free kick quickly taken. Inverness in a hurry here. Billy | :47:43. | :47:56. | |
McKay has been on the periphery of this final. Not really getting the | :47:57. | :48:02. | |
ball in the latter stages. Just sliding up the side. Keep your team | :48:03. | :48:08. | |
up the pitch, instead surrendering possession, and no Aberdeen back in | :48:09. | :48:14. | |
the game. -- and now. Hoisted away by Tansey, McKay in an offside | :48:15. | :48:29. | |
position, so could not go for it. Draper again, a colossal presence in | :48:30. | :48:34. | |
the Inverness engine room, Ross Draper, and that change will be made | :48:35. | :48:40. | |
for Aberdeen, Scott Vernon coming on for Andrew Considine. What do you | :48:41. | :48:51. | |
make of that? He is a player you obviously know well, Scott Vernon. | :48:52. | :48:57. | |
He can score a goal. He might just put it in the back of the net. No | :48:58. | :49:09. | |
foul by Daniel Devine. In towards Vernon, but a through to Dean Brill. | :49:10. | :49:18. | |
-- but away through. Still the noise around Celtic Park, | :49:19. | :49:54. | |
but this is the quiet it has been all afternoon. I think that is the | :49:55. | :50:00. | |
nervousness coming through, the fans holding their breath. Anderson all | :50:01. | :50:02. | |
over the place. The pen Aberdeen into their own | :50:03. | :50:32. | |
penalty area. -- they pen. That was Doran, but blocked once more. | :50:33. | :50:49. | |
It is just impossible to call. The fact is, if either team can get the | :50:50. | :51:03. | |
ball into the opposite 18 yard box, there is a chance. But they are | :51:04. | :51:08. | |
tired, concentration starts to move, physically affected, if Aberdeen can | :51:09. | :51:14. | |
get it up there, Scott Vernon has fresh legs and could make the | :51:15. | :51:21. | |
difference. Aaron Doran through to McKay, but the flight will go up. -- | :51:22. | :51:32. | |
the flag. Tired legs we spoke about, but he was just offside. | :51:33. | :51:46. | |
Vernon Windsor. -- wins it. Daniel Devine looks like he has played at | :51:47. | :52:00. | |
the heart of the Inverness defence for years. Looking pretty solid. | :52:01. | :52:08. | |
Willo Flood slept, allowing Ryan Christie in. Trying to get Aberdeen | :52:09. | :52:23. | |
away here. It is an Aberdeen free kick, courtesy of Graeme Shinnie, | :52:24. | :52:29. | |
and a yellow card as well for Shinnie. He has put so much into | :52:30. | :52:36. | |
this game, really has. He was not going to be able to chase them into | :52:37. | :52:44. | |
the corner, so here was-- so he was prepared to give away the free kick | :52:45. | :52:51. | |
on behalf of his team. And there is the yellow. A touch cynical from | :52:52. | :53:01. | |
Graeme Shinnie. They have managed extra time in a semifinal with two | :53:02. | :53:07. | |
players less, did Caley Thistle. Aberdeen have a free kick. It | :53:08. | :53:13. | |
minutes to go. Graeme Shinnie looks as if he is really struggling. | :53:14. | :53:22. | |
Robson takes. But it was too high for everyone. Disappointing free | :53:23. | :53:28. | |
kick, not a great opportunity, on that long diagonal, but | :53:29. | :53:33. | |
nevertheless, put it into the area to give someone the chance, make | :53:34. | :53:39. | |
them defend it. Too many free kick from both teams coming from longer | :53:40. | :53:44. | |
distances and not being asked to defend them, running out for goal | :53:45. | :53:49. | |
kick, offer the goalkeeper. The clock ticks down further. | :53:50. | :54:02. | |
That was Devine, but sliced it away, the man from Belfast. | :54:03. | :54:28. | |
Not much movement for Logan, does get it eventually from Vernon, and | :54:29. | :54:39. | |
back to login again. -- back to Logan. Inverness picking up the | :54:40. | :54:48. | |
scraps at the edge of their own penalty area. David Raven cleared | :54:49. | :54:54. | |
and managed to pick out a team-mate in Doran as well. Aberdeen trying to | :54:55. | :54:57. | |
finish extra time strongly here. That was poor. He has been less | :54:58. | :55:34. | |
involved in the second half, and an excellent time, Billy McKay, because | :55:35. | :55:40. | |
they have not got the ball to him, not giving him service, not giving | :55:41. | :55:47. | |
him opportunity. Maybe put it in an area where he could make the result. | :55:48. | :56:00. | |
Willo Flood was looking for Scott Vernon. | :56:01. | :56:20. | |
Puts it out for the goal kick, but went the wrong way. Floating a bit | :56:21. | :56:32. | |
too far, but Barry Robson out I'd is an opportunity to put in a cross | :56:33. | :56:40. | |
that may give Scott Vernon or Adam Rooney a chance. Derek McInnes was | :56:41. | :56:46. | |
famously left out of Walter Smith's Rangers' League Cup final team in | :56:47. | :56:52. | |
1996 played here. He scored several times in the run-up to that. | :56:53. | :57:12. | |
He goes down in the edge of the box, and other free kick and a very good | :57:13. | :57:22. | |
area. Ross Draper, whose penalty took Caley Thistle into the final, | :57:23. | :57:27. | |
will be booked here. His first mistake, it's good because late, but | :57:28. | :57:34. | |
it was a tired lines as he went back inside. -- tired lunge. And a roar | :57:35. | :57:40. | |
from the Aberdeen supporters, sensing this might be their glory | :57:41. | :57:45. | |
moment, minutes away from extra time. Just over three minutes to | :57:46. | :57:58. | |
play. Low and Robson over it. The Inverness Caley Thistle wall move | :57:59. | :58:09. | |
back. Low or Robson. No could be their moment. It is Nicky Low and it | :58:10. | :58:22. | |
was over again. Massive moment therefore Nicky Low -- there for. | :58:23. | :58:30. | |
The headlines were there for him, but just in that area the quality | :58:31. | :58:36. | |
has not been there. These free kicks, corner kicks, not a lot of | :58:37. | :58:42. | |
pressure put on defences, goalkeeper not tested enough. Penalties looming | :58:43. | :58:51. | |
large now. Inverness trying to change that. It is Nick Ross. And it | :58:52. | :59:02. | |
is a free kick. Russell Anderson, what does he make of that? He was | :59:03. | :59:11. | |
pointing up the field, but he could not argue that was a free kick. From | :59:12. | :59:18. | |
an Aberdeen free kick and chants, took Caley Thistle having similar up | :59:19. | :59:24. | |
the end, slightly further out than the Aberdeen free kick we saw a | :59:25. | :59:31. | |
minute ago. The Aberdeen skipper will take up a position inside the | :59:32. | :59:37. | |
penalty area. Like Aberdeen, Inverness have plenty of options | :59:38. | :59:43. | |
from the set these. Tansey, Luke 13-- Draper and Doran possibly. | :59:44. | :59:49. | |
Moving towards the final minute of stoppage time, extra time rather, in | :59:50. | :59:56. | |
the 2014 League Cup final. This could be for the Cup. The worst we | :59:57. | :00:06. | |
have seen yet. The highest one to date. Such a pity, because these | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
situations are such an opportunity to score a winning goal. Into the | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
last veterans of back-up I know, into the top corner, at least make | :00:19. | :00:30. | |
the keeper the save. -- make a save. Is there one last chance in this Cup | :00:31. | :00:38. | |
final question a deep into the final minute. Could not get it over the | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
head of Josh Meekings, Willo Flood. One minute of stoppage time added | :00:45. | :00:59. | |
on. Picked up by Ross Draper. A free kick to Aberdeen. We go into the | :01:00. | :01:14. | |
final minute. Approaching a penalty shoot out. Barry Robson will float | :01:15. | :01:25. | |
this into the box. Aberdeen will get a last chance from normal play. | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
Robson takes. Scott Vernon leaps and wins it. But it goes past. We edged | :01:33. | :01:44. | |
closer to a shoot out. Could not quite get it on target. Man of the | :01:45. | :01:54. | |
match? Several of the Inverness boys deserve a mention. Robson has been | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
excellent for Aberdeen. But I will choose Ross Draper. He has been an | :02:01. | :02:09. | |
anchor. It is penalties, folks. The League Cup final will be decided by | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
a shoot out. Aberdeen against Inverness Caley Thistle. The Dons | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
came closest, hitting the post in the first-half. It feels like a very | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
long time ago. It is time for heroes and villains. 0-0 after extra time. | :02:26. | :02:34. | |
Aberdeen and Inverness Caley Thistle have had their chances to win this | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
in open play. Those chances have gone after two hours of trying. It | :02:41. | :02:48. | |
will all come down to penalty kicks. Holding your nerve as much as | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
anything else. It is tense, dramatic, exciting, but not if you | :02:54. | :03:01. | |
lose. They have both had penalty shoot out victories in the | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
competition this season, Aberdeen defeated Alloa, Caley Thistle | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
defeated Heart of Midlothian. Who do we favour in the studio? Michael, | :03:12. | :03:20. | |
Willie, and firstly Charlie. We know who Charlie favours ex-Commissioner | :03:21. | :03:34. | |
-- and will be hoping his son does not miss one. Fingers crossed. You | :03:35. | :03:43. | |
are looking over the shoulder of the manager to see what names he has | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
scribbled down, perhaps hoping your name is not on it! Usually you know | :03:47. | :03:56. | |
before kick-off who will take the penalties. Though it might change | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
during the course of the game. It can be about confidence. But it is a | :04:01. | :04:08. | |
horrible position to be in. I have been there on a few occasions | :04:09. | :04:21. | |
myself. Let's not mention Berlin! I did not want to take a penalty that | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
night, but as captain it was my responsibility. But it can be great | :04:26. | :04:33. | |
for goalkeepers, one of them will be a hero. And physical fitness comes | :04:34. | :04:43. | |
into it. If you are tired, you will be mentally tired, which can have an | :04:44. | :04:52. | |
effect. I would be sure Barry Robson will take one. His delivery is | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
normally fantastic, but his set pieces today have not been the same | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
standard. Will his confidence levels be as high as normal? That has a | :05:05. | :05:16. | |
huge airing on it. -- bearing. Is it a football lottery at this point, | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
Charlie? I really think it is. The goalkeeper guesses correctly and you | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
can win it. Jamie Langfield is readying himself for what is to | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
come. Penalty shoot out time. It will be described by Mark McGhee and | :05:38. | :05:39. | |
Liam McLeod. Three times before a penalty shoot | :05:40. | :05:48. | |
out has settled the League Cup final. McKay with the first one, | :05:49. | :05:56. | |
against Langfield, saved! Advantage Aberdeen! It was a poor penalty. Not | :05:57. | :06:06. | |
struck decisively. You need to have practised. You need to know, when | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
you walk, exactly what you are going to do. Where you are going to put | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
it. Strike it with conviction. That was indecisive. No conviction. Barry | :06:19. | :06:28. | |
Robson for Aberdeen. A chance to put them ahead in the shoot out. No | :06:29. | :06:45. | |
mistake! I like a big run up. You give yourself space, time to relax. | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
Build momentum. He has scored a good penalty. Caley Thistle wonder they | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
are shoot out against hearts in the semifinal. Aberdeen defeated Alloa. | :06:58. | :07:06. | |
Greg Tansey will take the second for Inverness. They missed their first. | :07:07. | :07:20. | |
Tansey, who scored in the semifinal. Puts it over! It is going horribly | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
wrong in the shoot out for the Highlanders. Langfield not needed | :07:28. | :07:41. | |
for that one. It really is advantage, Aberdeen. Especially if | :07:42. | :07:51. | |
Mickey Lowe can fire this past Brill. This would put Aberdeen 2-0 | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
up, within touching distance of their first silverware in almost two | :07:59. | :08:08. | |
decades. Mickey Lowe, who came on as a substitute for Smith earlier. What | :08:09. | :08:18. | |
a moment. And he scores! They are very close now, the red Army. A | :08:19. | :08:34. | |
great penalty from Lowe. It sent Brill the wrong way. Nick Ross knows | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
what it means for Caley Thistle. He has got to score. And he does! | :08:40. | :08:47. | |
That's certainly did not lack conviction. A great penalty kick. | :08:48. | :08:56. | |
Inverness make it 2-1 in the shoot out. But Aberdeen have taken one | :08:57. | :09:08. | |
less penalty. Scott Vernon, to lump an enormous amount of pressure on | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
the next Caley Thistle taker. It is a brilliant penalty again. Wonderful | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
spot kick from Vernon. Now, Aaron Dorans has to score. A great penalty | :09:22. | :09:29. | |
kick. Just opens his foot up, slides it, with a bit of power. Great | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
penalty. If Dorans misses, Aberdeen have won the League Cup. It is as | :09:37. | :09:44. | |
cool as you like. There is still life in the shoot out. But for how | :09:45. | :09:54. | |
much longer? Stewart Milne knows Aberdeen are so close to that long, | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
long-awaited trophy. If there is anybody would want to take it, it is | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
this man. A penalty to win the cup, you would put your money on him. Six | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
goals from eight games before today, Adam Rooney, a chance to win | :10:12. | :10:19. | |
the cup for Aberdeen... And he does! Two decades of pain, hurt, and | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
ridicule at the hands of others, is over for Aberdeen! Derek McInnes has | :10:26. | :10:33. | |
guided them to silverware within one year of taking the job. The sleeping | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
giant of Scottish football has finally woken from its slumber. A | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
memorable season has a silver lining woven into it now. The chairman | :10:46. | :11:03. | |
celebrates. The 1950s, 1976, 1985, 1989, 1995, Reid 2014. A sixth | :11:04. | :11:25. | |
League Cup has been one. Heartbreak for the Highlanders. Caley Thistle | :11:26. | :11:33. | |
were resolute throughout. Condolences passed on by their | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
supporters, they have heartbreakingly lost out. We can now | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
speak to an Aberdeen hero, Barry Robson. You did it the hard way. How | :11:46. | :11:56. | |
do you feel? We won, that is all I am interested in. I am lucky enough | :11:57. | :12:06. | |
to have been here before, but this means as much. The boys showed | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
tremendous spirit under pressure. It is a credit to the players and | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
management that we have brought this back to Aberdeen. What does the | :12:17. | :12:25. | |
backing of the fans mean? We are delighted to have won it for them. | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
Derek McInnes has given Pittodrie 18 to be proud of again. A city will | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
rejoice tonight. -- given Pittodrie a team. And a Scottish cup semifinal | :12:39. | :12:47. | |
against Saint Johnstone to come, a potential Scottish Cup final back | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
here in May. Second place in the league is achievable. 40,000 | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
supporters have come down to Glasgow for this game and know that. We are | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
with Derek McInnes. How does it feel? | :13:03. | :13:09. | |
Absolutely ecstatic. You see what it means to so many people. We were | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
well aware of what it meant to get a trophy again and make Aberdeen | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
successful. We burned at the right to be in this final, it was tight, | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
but when it came down to penalty kicks, you need to back yourself, | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
take them with confidence. Thankfully, Jamie saved one. It is | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
unfortunate for Inverness. They made a good final, tight. But our | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
overriding priority was to win the game, no matter how we did it. How | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
did your players handle the pressure of being favourites? We were | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
excellent. We lacked a little bit of pace going forward, with Peter | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
Pawlett missing out, and the real blow for Jonny Hayes. That took our | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
dynamic away from us as an attacking force, but I thought we were the | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
better team in terms of controlling the game. The mental strength of | :14:07. | :14:16. | |
these boys, not one minute did doubt them. They were more than strong | :14:17. | :14:24. | |
enough to handle the occasion. The Northern lights of old Aberdeen | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
are where they want to be and glittering almost as brightly as | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
those lights will be the Scottish League Cup trophy when it is on its | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
way back to a seriously deprived Pittodrie trophy cabinet. 18 years | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
of nothing wiped out in one glorious afternoon. It finishes, at Celtic | :14:43. | :14:49. | |
Park, the League Cup final, Aberdeen and nil -Lil Caley Thistle, the Dons | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
winning 4-2 on penalties. -- 0-0. It has been a long time coming, | :14:53. | :15:13. | |
November 1995 when they last had a trophy in their possession. There is | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
Jonny Hayes, who had to go off so early on, pain and tears for him, | :15:21. | :15:27. | |
but joy for everyone in red as March 2014 becomes another big date in the | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
calendar for Aberdeen Football Club. Willie Miller, home are you | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
feeling? Wonderful for the fans, 40,000 odd down this afternoon, | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
readily enjoying it, it went quiet towards the end, into extra time, | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
but their faith has been rewarded by this team lifting the trophy. I must | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
raise Inverness Caley Thistle as well for their effort this | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
afternoon. It was not a classic game, but very competitive, John | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
Hughes obviously disappointed, but not by the effort from his team. | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
Charlie, a really painful way to lose? It is, credit to Aberdeen, | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
showing the size of club that they really are, the second biggest club | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
in the SPL at the moment proving that today. The frustrating thing | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
for me was Dean Brill could not get close to the penalties, they were so | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
well taken, Adam Rooney quite fitting, ex-Inverness player, | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
football can be a funny game. It was him who put Inverness on the map, | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
then scoring the winning penalty. But the dead Inverness proud. I do | :16:44. | :16:50. | |
not think it will be too long before they are back in a Cup final. -- but | :16:51. | :16:57. | |
they did Inverness proud. Not the greatest game, but everyone in red | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
not caring. Yes, the one resounding thing you heard was it was winning | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
that mattered, which is what they have done, I huge milestone for the | :17:10. | :17:16. | |
club to get this trophy, such a long time, and it was about winning this | :17:17. | :17:23. | |
game and they have done it. Time for Aberdeen to pick up their prize. | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
The Aberdeen players loving this. As well be might. The trophy on its way | :17:30. | :17:37. | |
out to the park. Red and white ribbons. Anton from the SFPL, who is | :17:38. | :17:47. | |
arranging the trophy for the presentation. Not quite what we see | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
normally at Hampden Park. Jim Leighton and Derek McInnes there. | :17:54. | :18:01. | |
They do not have the facilities at Celtic Park for the normal trophy | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
presentation, so the podium in the middle will have to do, but Aberdeen | :18:07. | :18:13. | |
don't care. They do not clear where or when. -- do not care. Want you | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
make of the Aberdeen revolution, Mark, a club you know well? -- what | :18:20. | :18:27. | |
do you make? They have done so well. Ross Draper getting man of the match | :18:28. | :18:34. | |
award. He was absolutely terrific, the demise in what Inverness were | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
about, pulling them around, forcing them around, working as hard as | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
anyone on the field. Caley Thistle players, a cliche in football, the | :18:46. | :18:53. | |
worst round losing is the semifinal, but I do not think so, it is the | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
final, their first major final. It can only hold them in good stead, | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
giving them the belief that they are here and now, a team that can | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
compete in Scotland, can win trophies, all fully back with an | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
opportunity to do it in future seasons. -- of fully. -- hopefully. | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
The praise they will be given not amounting to much, even given the | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
runners-up medals. Some relatives there. We should mention John | :19:30. | :19:37. | |
Hughes. We have spoken about Derek 's fantastic job in the improvement | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
in the team and club fortunes, which will insure, and I do not think this | :19:44. | :19:50. | |
is just a blip. They could be in another final at the end of the | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
season, and they will go on and prove things. They have themselves | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
the right runner. Ryan Esson, former Aberdeen keeper, involved the last | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
time Aberdeen were in a Cup I not, or not involved as it ended up | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
being, part of the squad but left out by the then manager. The | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
referees getting the mentors as well. The referees were excellent. | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
Maybe one penalty missed when Anderson was all over the back of | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
Foran. One in the first half I still disagree with, going down too | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
easily, I do not think it was a penalty, but otherwise a fantastic | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
game for the referee. Aberdeen will step forward to pick up the League | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
Cup for the six time, the third most accessible club in this competition, | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
waiting a long, long time. -- most successful. A whole generation of | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
supporters not witnessing this. But they will step forward having won | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
this on penalties, Willo Flood leading the team cops are -- leading | :21:02. | :21:08. | |
the team, it will be captain last stop Niall McGinn had a great chance | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
as well. Barry Robson, finally winning a medal eyed with the one he | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
won at Celtic. Andrew Considine through thick and thin with | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
Aberdeen. Mark Reynolds, signing a new long-term deal. A great thing | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
about the Aberdeen squad, most signed up to long-term deals. Jonny | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
Hayes in a sling having coming off after a few minutes. Adam Rooney | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
scoring the decisive penalty. Eventually, Russell Anderson will go | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
up to live that trophy, and who can begrudge this honour this would -- | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
restored upon him? Derek McInnes within one year taking Aberdeen to | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
an major trophy, but Basil Anderson, at the age of 35, more than 400 | :21:56. | :22:02. | |
appearances for the Dons, his club, Aberdeen supporter, -- Russell | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
Anderson. He is from the Granite City, and he will live the 2014 | :22:08. | :22:15. | |
Scottish League Cup, which has been won by Aberdeen! -- he will lift. | :22:16. | :22:36. | |
Part head is Park Red this Sunday afternoon. -- Parkhead is Park Red! | :22:37. | :22:52. | |
There can be no argument now. The progress that Aberdeen have made | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
under the new manager. That big piece of silver proving that. That | :22:59. | :23:07. | |
night will be a tear in the eye of Stewart Milne, through thick and | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
thin as well, some horrible times under his chairmanship, the | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
undoubted highlight. CHEERING. Derek McInnes, Tony Doherty's assistant, a | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
big part of the success story as well. So many non-used players, | :23:24. | :23:30. | |
Calvin Zola, Peter Pawlett, such a big mess, which you could see in | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
open play to date. He played his part in the run-up to this. -- Peter | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
Pawlett, such a big miss. Niall McGinn, Player of the Year last | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
season. Alongside Cammy Smith, coming on as substitute for Jonny | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
Hayes after just five minutes. Big special moment for the 18 is macro. | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
Bigger Pollard with Jonny Hayes, both brilliant this season. -- big | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
special moment for the 18-year-old. Peter Pawlett Jonny Hayes there. | :24:03. | :24:09. | |
Russell, you know what it means more than most to lift the trophy, | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
describe it. Incredible feeling, long time coming, very nervous and | :24:14. | :24:21. | |
tense day, as long as the game went on, you wondered if it would go to | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
penalties, but fortunately, doing well, taking some great penalties | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
and we deserve it. Terrific journey under Derek McInnes, describe the | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
difference he has made. You see the players playing full of confidence, | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
everyone knows what they should do, what is expected, and winning breeds | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
confidence, so the more you win, the better you feel at this season has | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
so far been really good. Aberdeen have intentionally another Cup final | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
this season. You would like to think it will not hinder as at least, and | :25:00. | :25:06. | |
maybe it will give us the confidence to finish the season strongly. I | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
will let you celebrate and bring in another hero, I'd Jamie Langfield, | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
not too much to do during the game, but penalty saves crucial in getting | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
the advantage. Yes, penalties can be one way or the other, I was glad to | :25:24. | :25:31. | |
get us in front. Inverness gave it their all. We gave everything we | :25:32. | :25:38. | |
had. I do not think it matters what the result is, as long as you get | :25:39. | :25:45. | |
the Cup. We could not be any happier. You could not do anything | :25:46. | :25:52. | |
else, but you could not let anyone down with their support behind you. | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
We are grateful, it is great for them, great for us, for the club, | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
the chairman, manager. We will enjoy ourselves and deserve it. Well done. | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
Thank you very much. There were up to 8000 reasons to | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
disputed earlier, but Celtic Park is simply red and it is pure and | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
unadulterated joy for the Aberdeen supporters, who have suffered a lot | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
of pain, but today and tonight, Willie Miller, it is all joy. It is, | :26:26. | :26:32. | |
for the fans, for the club, for the directors, everyone working at the | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
club, it is a fantastic club, I have been most of my life, and good to | :26:39. | :26:46. | |
see them in a happy mood. I was going to say just before the | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
presentation, huge word for Russell Anderson, a magnificent captain, he | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
leads by example, it would have been dreadful for him to go through a | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
whole career and not lift a trophy and wonderful to see him lift the | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
trophy and you can see what it means to him, local lad, went through the | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
development setup, gave everything to the club, total gentleman, I am | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
delighted for him and everyone at Aberdeen. Michael, Aberdeen will | :27:20. | :27:20. | |
this triggers long range success? And that is it. We will have | :27:21. | :27:50. | |
reaction from Aberdeen tonight to this success. Thank you to | :27:51. | :27:56. | |
everyone. For Aberdeen, the long wait is over. They have some | :27:57. | :28:00. | |
silverware to celebrate wine leave from Celtic Park. From all of us, | :28:01. | :28:14. | |
goodbye for now. -- to celebrate when leaving Celtic Park. | :28:15. | :28:16. |