Aberdeen 0 - 1 Third Lanark

Aberdeen A Suffer First Defeat in Alliance Shield.

In a thrilling game with Third Lanark "A" at Pittodrie, Aberdeen "A" sustained their first defeat in the new Alliance Shield competition.

Previously the Young Dons had dropped only one point in Shield games, this also to the Warriors' reserves, when the teams met at Cathkin Park earlier in the season.
With the recognised second team half-back line being tried out against St Johnstone at Perth, the Aberdeen "A" side fielded the first-team half-back line - Fraser, Falloon, and Godfrey - a fact which in no way lessened the blow of defeat.
Truth to tell, the Alliance team as constituted on Saturday fell short of the standard that has been maintained throughout the season.
The side, as a whole, never struck its customary form. The forwards were disjointed and the "No. 1" half-back line, while forceful enough, somehow did not coordinate into the scheme of things.

Visitors Hemmed In.

Though the Third Lanark youngsters deserved every credit for their smart win, they should have been beaten. In the second half the "Reds" were almost completely hemmed in to their own half of the field, but the Aberdeen men simply could not find the net.
No purpose can be served mentioning individual players in connection with the innumerable scoring chances that were frittered away by the home side.
Forwards and half-backs alike were equally remiss, and while the Thirds' defenders were lucky time and again in surviving fierce attacks, the real cause of the homesters' failure lay in their own ineptitude at goal.
Breslin scored the all-important goal for Thirds when the first half was well advanced. The Young Dons, on play, should at least have been on level terms at the interval.

No Equaliser.

During the second half, except for occasional snap raids by Thirds, in one of which Breslin scored an offside goal, it was all Aberdeen, but the equaliser would not come.
Thirds played an attractive, open game, and their attacks, though less frequent, always seemed more dangerous.
Sharp played finely for the visitors in goal, and the backs and halves, big, strong fellows, never slackened off. Breslin and Brown, the two extreme wingers, and McLachlan at centre, shone in a virile attack.
The Aberdeen defence did not exhibit its usual confidence, and, as stated, the mid-line did not "fit in." Of the forwards, Adam was the most direct in his methods, but had no luck with his shooting.

Source: Press & Journal, 10th April 1933