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Aberdeen opened up without any points but at least brought some much needed pride and fight back, writes Scott Burns at Pittodrie. ‌

Jimmy Thelin 's side came out on the end of a five goal thriller against Shakhtar Donetsk. ‌

Thelin had been given the full backing from chairman Dave Cormack and got something similar from his team. ‌

Yes, they were once again punished at this level for their mistakes but they gave one of the favourites for this tournament a real fright.

Aberdeen hadn’t scored a home goal but finally got off the mark.

Jesper Karlsson put them ahead from the spot but a mix of some brilliance by the visitors and some poor defending saw Shakhtar go 3-1 ahead, through goals from Yehor Nazarene, Lucas Ferreira and Pedrinho. ‌

Nicky Devlin got

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