Macdonald says HJK strike his best ever

Aberdeen defender Angus Macdonald was asked post-match if he had scored a better goal in his career than his 30-yard strike against HJK Helskinki.

"Definitely not, not since I was about 10," he laughed.

"My first thought was, what do I do now? Get back in position because I’m not used to scoring those goals."

On the game itself, Macdonald added: "A lot of us haven’t had the game time we had hoped for.

“So putting so many changes into the team threw some of us off, but after the goal went in we we showed how to gel and we grew in confidence. Jack Milne was fantastic making his European debut, so credit to him there were some great performances out there.

“We probably showed them too much respect first 20 minutes. But as soon as the goal went in everything started to change. We’ll look back and kick ourselves we should’ve taken more from both games and should have been qualifying.

“But it’s not meant to be. We’ve shown great character home and away throughout the European campaign."