Jim Goodwin needed Bojan Miovski so badly he was ready to attend a number of months for the North Macedonian striker’s signature – and the Aberdeen boss’s persistence has been nicely rewarded.
A bid to signal the 23-year-old from MTK Budapest in January didn’t materialise and it took till the tip of final season – plus an additional wait over visa and work allow points – for him to lastly get his man.
Now the £535,000 price they forked out for him is starting to appear like peanuts and will actually be cash nicely spent because the frontman’s worth continues to soar together with his two strikes in opposition to Kilmarnock – one from the penalty spot – taking his Premiership tally to seven.
And Miovski has one main purpose – to be Scotland’s high marksman on the finish of the marketing campaign. He mentioned: “After I got here right here Aberdeen confirmed me the plan of taking part in attacking soccer. For me as a striker that’s excellent. I knew I'd rating objectives if I signed for Aberdeen.
“I just like the model we play rather more than final season in Hungary. I'm having fun with it and I've an excellent reference to all the gamers and I hope it continues like that.
“It’s good to attain all of the objectives I've scored and I hope I can proceed like this. I needed to attain a hat-trick however I've been travelling loads with the nationwide workforce for 2 or three days, so for me getting 65 minutes earlier than being substituted was excellent. I didn’t need any threat of getting injured.”
The Dons dazzled within the Pittodrie sunshine, though Goodwin was involved that regardless of going 2-0 up after 24 minutes, with objectives from Vicente Besuijen and Miovski’s spot kick, slack defending allowed Killie again within the sport by way of Ash Taylor’s header three minutes later.
It was the Ayrshire membership’s first away aim of the season as ex-Don Taylor rattled the opposition till the Pittodrie outfit had been awarded the penalty simply earlier than the break.
It got here as Miovski went down when Killie keeper Zach Hemming’s leg stretched for the ball and whereas ref Kevin Clancy didn’t hesitate to level to the spot, the guests had been unfortunate to be sanctioned.
Nevertheless, ultimately Goodwin wasn’t the one one gushing about Miovski’s scoring approach as he clipped the ball over Zach Hemming simply on the break. The 16,000 dwelling followers beloved what they noticed because the goal-grabber insisted he was impressed by them.
He mentioned: “I loved the followers’ assist loads. It has pushed me and given me further motivation to do higher on the pitch. I hope I can rating many extra objectives for the workforce and the followers.
“My goal is to be high scorer within the league this season. Each striker thinks about this and desires about this. After they (different strikers) rating, they push me to play higher. After I see them scoring objectives it pushes me on to attain much more objectives and be the highest scorer for the workforce I'm taking part in for.”
Anthony Stewart’s header simply after an hour’s play underlined Aberdeen’s second half dominance because the Rugby Park defence struggled to maintain tabs on the tempo set by a house workforce full of vitality.
Hayden Coulson and Jonny Hayes ran riot down the left, creating a listing of probabilities whereas on the different finish Dons keeper Kelle Roos needed to be at his greatest to cease one or two half-chances, significantly Liam Polworth’s gorgeous 30-yard effort.
The Ayrshire membership are discovering life powerful within the high tier and with Christian Doige and Oli Shaw struggling to search out the web and the defence toiling, boss Derek McInnes will welcome the January switch window to spice up his choices.
McInnes hoped for higher from his aspect on his return to Pittodrie, 18 months after chairman Dave Cormack determined rookie boss Stephen Glass would do a greater job, – an experiment that fell flat earlier than Goodwin was recruited and the squad was overhauled.
McInnes thanked the Aberdeen followers for his or her heat welcome however there was no fairytale ending to that significantly story as he appears to be like to revitalise a workforce with only one league win to their title.
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