Connor Barron doesn’t think Aberdeen have had the luck or results they have deserved on the European front.The Viaplay Cup finalists head to Greece on Wednesday knowing anything other than a win against Group G’s runaway leaders PAOK will effectively end their hopes of making the knockout stages.
The Dons sit on just one point, picked up against HJK, but Barron believes if you look at all three group stage games, against Eintracht Frankfurt and PAOK, and even in their Europa League qualifiers against BK Hacken they could have and should have gotten more results.Barry Robson’s side drew 2-2 in Sweden and then lost 3-1 at home but created a good few chances against the Swedish champions before they dropped into the Europa Conference League.
That saw the club return to group stages of European football for the first time in 16 years and even then they have been unlucky, going away to Eintracht Frankfurt and going down to a narrow 2-1 defeat, they drew with HJK at home and then were 2-0 up against PAOK at Pittodrie and ended up losing 3-2.Those hard luck stories have left them on the brink with PAOK winning all three games and the Germans with just one blot on their copy book.
The young midfielder claimed: “If you look at the Hacken game, Helsinki, PAOK and Frankfurt- every game we played we should have got a result.“We have just been unlucky.
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