It takes confidence bordering on arrogance to be a professional centre-forward.
The knowledge that, as often as not, the entirety of your colleagues’ hard work will come to nothing if you are not able to perform your own job effectively would be too much pressure for the average mortal to bear.
Just as well it is a quality of which Bojan Miovski is possessed.
Having twice in the preceding eight evenings seen penalties at the proverbial good saving height repelled by opposing goalkeepers, lesser men than Miovski might have found a particularly interesting fingernail to inspect when applications were invited for the taking of another.
But forward he stepped, and this time was his shot dispatched with comfort.
Both player and team were fortunate that David Marshall’s encroachment permitted one of Miovski’s misses to be stricken from the official records and the honour to remain with him uncontroversially, as this is a time in history where a reliable spot-kick converter will likely be more important to Aberdeen’s chances than ever before.
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The combination of VAR’s implementation, the still-appalling handball rule, and Scotland’s footballers not yet having recalibrated their tackle meters to account for the peerless pace of Duk have contributed four penalties to the Dons’ cause in three games, and with all of those likely to persist for the foreseeable future Miovski may well have many more welcome chances to add to his tally.
That a striker’s lot is not easy is exemplified by the absence of Steven Fletcher from Saturday’s scoresheet.
For all his experience and the fees spent on him, Fletcher’s estimable attempts to convert various odds-against opportunities came to nought, leaving his opposite number to claim the match-winning glory in far simpler fashion.
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