Nikica Jelavic helps Rangers to 1-0 victory over Aberdeen to close the gap on Celtic
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Nikica-Jelavic-c27906’s strike helped Rangers beat Aberdeen 2-1 in a Scottish Premier League encounter at the Pittodrie Stadium (Aberdeen) on Wednesday, 13th April, 2011.
The Gers now trail league leaders Celtic by just two points, with two matches left to play in the season.
Aberdeen manager, Craig Brown made several changes to his team that recently lost 1-0 to Hibernian. Josh Magennis and Scott Vernon started upfront in a 4-4-2 formation.
On the other hand, Walter Smith made only one change to his team, who beat Hamilton Academical 1-0 in their last league game. Jamie Ness replaced Richard Foster, who was ineligible to play against his parent club.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Allan-McGregor-c5213 made a smart save down to his left to deny the hosts.
Minutes later, Sasa Papac caught http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Jamie-Langfield-c17731.
However, the visitors managed to open the scoring in the 22nd minute of the game. A free kick from McGregor was taken on his chest by Jelavic and the Croatian scored an amazing goal with an overhead kick to make it 1-0 for the Blues.
Rangers dominated possession and controlled the game in the first half hour.
The Teddy Bears had a huge shout for a penalty turned down after Jelavic was hauled down inside the penalty area but the referee waved play on. Replays showed that it was a clean tackle and the referee was spot on with his decision.
Aberdeen had a wonderful opportunity to score the equaliser at the start of the second half. The Red’s players surged forward in numbers and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Chris-Maguire-c9024 placed a shot wide of the goal despite being in a one-on-one situation with McGregor.
The game dried up midway through the second half as neither side could create clear-cut scoring opportunities. In the 74th minute, Maguire swerved a lovely free kick from 25 yards out to find http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Robert-Milsom-c31258, whose cutback effort was cleared off
the line by http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Kyle-Lafferty-c21560.
Aberdeen failed to make their chances count as they slumped to a defeat in their last match of the 2010-11 season.
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