Dons humbled at home

Posted on Friday, July 31st, 2009 at 2:24 pm and is filed under News.

Aberdeen’s 2009/2010 season began with a humiliating loss in front of their home crowd in the Europa League qualifiers on Thursday night.

The side, led by new manager Mark McGhee, found themselves on the receiving end of a 5-1 thrashing from the Czech Republic’s Sigma Olomouc.

The result leaves the club with little chance of progressing to the Europa League tournament proper, with a 4 goal reverseal required in Prague next week.

The two sides looked well matched for the early part of the game, with Sigma Olomouc drawing first blood on 18 minutes before Aberdeen equalized through a Charlie Mulgre free kick.

However, the wheels came off the Aberdeen effort after the hour mark, as Lukas Bajer put his side into the lead.

The floodgates opened with Sigma Olomouc in the lead, and the Czechs were able to put three more goals past the Aberdeen defence before the referee put the Scottish club out of its misery.

“I think I could cry, to be honest,” McGhee told the Daily Mail after the match. “Generally, we learned we are nowhere near fit enough. It’s an easy excuse to say that but we are not up there where we would want to be at the start of the season.”

“Did the game come too early for us? Clearly it did. We are not ready to play for 90 minutes.”