Motherwell were humbled by a clinical and efficient Aberdeen side on Tuesday evening. Nobody in Scottish football really expected Aberdeen to win, even more so by that margin. In the aftermath of that result, I was shocked to read some comments suggesting that Alfred is not cut out for the job. I want to write something articulate as a rebuttal, to really prove the point that to suggest he isn’t, based on the current evidence, is an overreaction. But for all the points, I just keep coming back to one sentence.
Can everybody just calm the fuck down?
What the 0–4 actually looked like
Before any of this: Aberdeen won the game. That’s the result, and nothing underneath it changes that.
You’re never going to walk out of a cup final having lost 1–0 and say “aye, but we had more xG and possession than them, didn’t we?”. That’s not the argument. What we are saying is that over the course of a season, the underlying
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