Sunday Mail (UK)

We have to make history Considine wants a famous Dons Euro victory to rescue hopes against Rijeka

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The Dons, who travel to St Mirren today in the Premiershi­p, have a Europa League mountain to climb at home on Thursday after losing 2- 0 in Croatia last week.

Derek McInnes has mastermind­ed big wins over the likes of Groningen and even a previous 3- 0 victory in Rijeka.

But Considine knows they will have to surpass even that if the Dons want to make it a dream double.

The stopper said: “There’s another tie to come and we’re looking forward to it as we’ve been clinical at home.

“Against Chikhura in Georgia, it was much the same heat and the same game as in Rijeka.

“We got an away goal against the Georgians but when they came over to Aberdeen we blew them away in the first 20 minutes then it’s a totally different game.

“If we can apply the same kind of pressure there’s every chance we can get something in the return against Rijeka. It would be one of our biggest results in European history.”

McInnes ( below) has made Dons Euro regulars but has never taken them past the third qualifying round.

This current stage has been his glass ceiling and Considine wants to smash it to set up a tie against Gent or Larnaca.

He said: “We’ve struggled to get past this third round over the years.

“There’s two good teams we could face next but at the moment we’re behind in this tie. But it will be a different game

when we play Rijeka back home.

“We’ll be in their faces and if we get an early goal it’s game on.”

Aberdeen were coping well with Rijeka’s threat until they gave away a cheap penalty after Shay Logan pulled Antonio-Mirko Colak’s shirt in the box. Consid ine said: “We were comfortabl­e until the penalty. Our keeper Joe Lewis only had one good save to make and we felt they were running out of ideas. “They had more possession than

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RED WAIL Considine and McKenna can’t block Robert Muric’s second goal for Rijeka
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