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CELTIC:
James (Joe) Kennaway, Bobby Hogg, John Morrison, Chic Geatons, Malcolm MacDonald, George Paterson, Jimmy Delaney, Willie Buchan, Jimmy McGrory, Charlie Napier, Hugh O’Donnell
Scorers: McGrory
Aberdeen:
Scorers: Armstrong, (2)
Referee:
Attendance:
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The Scotsman, Monday 11th March 1935
CELTIC GO OUT
TWO PENALTY GOALS AT ABERDEEN
The traditional Celtic fighting-back spirit was seldom in evidence at Aberdeen, and even although two of their three goals were scored by means of penalty kicks, the Northern side deserved to win. While the Glasgow club players were becoming flustered by a series of onslaughts, the Aberdeen men kept cool, and at times played fine football. Under severe pressure the Celtic defence wavered badly, the full backs being far short of their best.
Morrison. deputising for internationalist McGonagle, made a poor substitute, and Hogg had a host of extra work thrown upon him by McDonald being unable to subdue Armstrong, who gave a dashing display at centre-forward for Aberdeen. Geatons was the “key“ man in the Parkhead club defence, and his cross-passing to the extreme wings could hardly have been improved on. The inside forward positions of the Celtic were vitally weak spots. Napier too often fell back to assist the halves, and needless free kick which he conceded, which led to a goal, might well be said to have settled the issue of the game. Buchan, at inside right, wandered too much, and his passes to McGrory were mostly too high, and Falloon, the Aberdeen centre-half, generally headed them away. Kennaway did little of note, and had no chance with the shots which beat him.
Aberdeen gave a display in the second half which would have beaten most teams. Cooper and McGill were a rock-like pair of backs, and they linked up well with good purveying half-backs in Fraser and Thomson. Falloon, however, after a shaky start, was the dominating defender, and seldom can McGrory have been so little in a game. The Aberdeen forwards were clever individually, and adopted typical cup-tie tactics. Moore played a hard game, and Beynon was slightly ahead of R. Smith as wing forward, the crosses of the latter player being often too square.
There was no scoring before the interval, during which period the Celtic team did best. They had a stroke of ill-luck when a McGrory header looked like giving them the lead, but McGill kicked clear on the goal-line, with the Aberdeen goalkeeper out of his charge.
Nine minutes after the restart, Armstrong, who just previously had missed a great chance, scored from a penalty Kick. Napier fouled Moore near midfield, and when the Celtic backs, hesitated at clearing Fraser’s free kick Mills dashed in and headed the ball past the visitors’ goalkeeper. Two minutes later Mills was fouled in the penalty area, and again Armstrong scored, after Kennaway had partially saved.
The Celtic goal was obtained a minute from the end, when McGrory got possession after Napier had taken a free kick, and scored from close range.