Rice insisted his tactics paid off against Derek McInnes' men, with a gameplan to soak up pressure in the first half and be more expansive after the break.Accies failed to register a single attempt on goal in the first forty-five, but they netted with their first effort on goal four minutes into the second half when Ogkmpoe headed home from Scott McMann's free-kick.Rice added: "The game plan was to play deep first half, let Aberdeen come on top of us, because too many times when we've been open and the games have been done at half-time."So I decided not to go as open to begin with and see if we can keep ourselves in the game until half-time and then take it from there."To be 1-0 down at half-time to Aberdeen was respectable for us."We knew.
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