Canning warns Accies to beware Dons revenge mission
MARTIN CANNING believes Aberdeen will be more fired up than ever to improve on their poor league record at Hamilton.
Dons have won just one of their last six and are winless in three Premiership games there, although they edged a 1-0 victory in the Betfred Cup this season.
But rather than fearing the trip to Lanarkshire tomorrow Canning reckons Derek McInnes will use it as motivation. He said: “History tells you Aberdeen don’t enjoy coming here. But they are too professional to let that affect them. Their mentality will be the opposite, they’ll want to come here and put one over on us.
“So we’ve got to guard against that while believing we can get the points against them.
“I don’t know what it is about our approach they don’t like. We don’t change it for the team we are playing against, we just try to get in people’s faces and make it difficult for teams to play.
“We carried a good bit of fortune in both the home games last year but we managed to dig deep to get a clean sheet.
“You know against the top teams they are going to have their chances in the game, so you need your big players to play well and things to fall in your favour.”
Aberdeen boss McInnes is linked with a move to Rangers and Canning isn’t surprised to see him touted for the job.
The Accies gaffer said: “Look at last season. If you take Celtic and the financial gulf out, Aberdeen are the best team in Scotland in the league and both cups as they were runners-up in all three competitions. Derek’s done a great job. It’s no surprise when these big jobs come up he’s linked with them.
“He had to rebuild a little bit, he lost some key players but he’s recruited well again. They are probably even stronger this year.
“The speculation about Derek won’t help us, he’ ll be too professional to allow that. His focus will be on Aberdeen.”