Dnipro vs Aberdeen. Europa League First Round.
Meteor StadiumAttendance26,275.
Aberdeen win on away goals rule
Thursday 4 October 2007 21:44, UK
Aberdeen made it a memorable week in Europe for Scottish clubs with a 1-1 against Dnipro to go through on the away goals rule.
Dnipro cut through the Dons defence but Langfield pushed away a low drive by L'opa from 12 yards.
Mackie silenced the previously noisy home support when he headed home Foster's drilled cross into the six-yard box.
The full-back had done brilliantly to lob the ball over Denys Andriyenko and reach the byline after Smith returned his throw-in.
Sergiy Nazarenko soon had an opportunity to level but his 25-yard free-kick bounced into the arms of Langfield, who almost set up Mackie with a quick kick-out.
Dnipro were left badly exposed in the centre of the defence but goalkeeper Vyacheslav Kernozenko raced out his box to clear just before Mackie could reach the ball.
Dnipro came closer in the 63rd minute when Rusol met Kravchenko's inswinging corner at the near post but the ball bounced off the top of the bar.
The attacks were relentless and L'opa smashed a 20-yard shot just wide before Langfield touched over Kravchenko's excellent 30-yard strike.
Kravchenko caused more panic among the several hundred visiting fans with a dangerous deep corner but defender Bogdan Shershun volleyed well over from 12 yards after Rusol's header.
Steve Lovell replaced Mackie in the 71st minute and the Dons immediately came close to a second when Diamond headed just wide from Barry Nicholson's corner.
But Dnipro levelled when Andrew Considine's attempted clearance cannoned off Vorobey eight yards out and flashed past Langfield.
Moments later Nazarenko crashed a 20-yard strike off the bar. The playmaker then set up Rusol from a corner but his glancing header cleared the far post.
Kravchenko also struck the bar from 20 yards but the Dons held on in a tense four minutes of injury time with Langfield pulling off another great diving save from Denisov.
Dnipropetrovsk | Team Statistics | Aberdeen |
1 | Goals | 1 |
0 | 1st Half Goals | 1 |
8 | Shots on Target | 1 |
15 | Shots off Target | 2 |
9 | Blocked Shots | 1 |
10 | Corners | 2 |
19 | Fouls | 20 |
2 | Offsides | 0 |
1 | Yellow Cards | 2 |
0 | Red Cards | 0 |
88.4 | Passing Success | 55.9 |
11 | Tackles | 17 |
81.8 | Tackles Success | 82.4 |
78.3 | Possession | 21.7 |
67.1 | Territorial Advantage | 32.9 |