Aberdeen 3 – 0 St Mirren

Aberdeen sealed third place within the Premiership and a spot in Europe subsequent season as their 3-0 win over 10-man St Mirren allied to Hearts’ draw at Ibrox put the Dons 4 factors away from the Edinburgh aspect.

On-loan midfield duo Leighton Clarkson and Graeme Shinnie had the Dons on simple road with first-half targets both aspect of Thierry Small’s pink card, and Shinnie added a 3rd early within the second half.

After a cagey opening, Clarkson opened the scoring from 20 yards as he curled an unstoppable free-kick previous Trevor Carson on the close to publish after Greg Kiltie had bundled over Jonny Hayes.

Much of the play was in midfield, however St Mirren’s Curtis Main and Alex Gogic each went shut with headers within the house of 60 seconds halfway by way of the primary half.

But the Buddies had been decreased to 10 males on the half-hour as Small’s wild problem on Dons striker Bojan Miovski left the North Macedonian striker stricken, and after a yellow card was initially brandished by referee Don Robertson, a VAR test noticed that upgraded to pink.

Aberdeen had been undeterred by Miovski’s damage and after Carson parried a Luis Lopes strike, Ross McCrorie simply did not get sufficient on the observe-as much as beat the St Mirren keeper.

But they doubled their lead two minutes from the break as Carson inexplicably scooped a Marley Watkins cross into the air and Shinnie gratefully accepted the reward to nod dwelling from shut vary.

Shinnie was at it once more 4 minutes after the interval as he netted his second, a uncommon proper-footed strike after Ylber Ramadani’s cutback, however once more Carson ought to have executed a lot better in his try to dam the trouble.

St Mirren threatened from a set-piece of their very own 20 yards out however Ryan Strain’s whipped effort was nicely held by Kelle Roos.

And Roos once more stood agency after a mixture-up between Angus MacDonald and Liam Scales let Main in behind the Dons defence, however there was no well past the Dutch goalkeeper.

Aberdeen had been getting lax on the again towards the ten males and with quarter-hour left Roos was once more referred to as into motion, this time to beat away Mark O’Hara’s curled effort from the sting of the realm.

Watkins and McCrorie handed up late probabilities so as to add a fourth for the Dons, however the hosts despatched their followers dwelling proud of European soccer subsequent season assured.

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