I wrote Aberdeen disconnected astatine Hampden Park connected Saturday. Everyone did. But this was history, the twelvemonth of the underdog.
Even erstwhile no-one other truly did, the squad believed they would assistance the Scottish Cup and that's the cardinal to immoderate occurrence - belief.
Listening to the Pittodrie players post-match, they had that assurance contempt their previous, and adjacent recent, results against Celtic, which were 5-1, 5-1, 1-0 and 6-0 successful their past 4 meetings.
This was a connection triumph and it truly feels similar a historical day, not conscionable for Aberdeen, but the remainder of Scottish football.
To spot a squad extracurricular the large 2 bash this is an astonishing moment.
Aberdeen had 2 days truly to nail their gameplan - a program which was wholly against their norm.
What followed was an unthinkable show with an fantabulous antiaircraft show astatine the bosom of it. That's a hard happening to do, peculiarly against this Celtic side.
I didn't expect them to bounds Celtic to truthful fewer chances, but they did truthful comfortably.
Other than Daizen Maeda's one-v-one successful stoppage time, determination wasn't thing truly excessively worrying from an Aberdeen perspective.
The content that the players spoke astir was astir apt built upon aft that archetypal half. Yes, Celtic had truthful overmuch possession, but they weren't cutting through. The Dons were precise bully without the ball.
Having specified foundations successful spot meant that erstwhile the triple substitution of Oday Dabbagh, Dante Polvara and Shayden Morris was made, Aberdeen were capable to spell rather brave.
Jimmy Thelin said post-match helium felt his broadside became a bigger attacking menace arsenic the crippled went on. That wasn't hard, though...
Morris is simply a subordinate I've admired for a agelong clip from erstwhile helium was down astatine Fleetwood Town. His velocity is specified a menace and Celtic got it incorrect dealing with him successful the build-up to the equaliser.
It was a superb determination from Thelin due to the fact that they asked him to bash a midfield relation without the shot and past beryllium a winger with the ball.
The Swede did immoderate thing antithetic and it paid dividends.
It should drawback the oculus of the remainder of Scottish football, too. Perhaps adjacent down the roadworthy wherever the underdog communicative has been beardown this season.
I person a large past with Celtic, but I'm from Aberdeen and I could lone ticker those trophy-lifting scenes with joy.
The Dons showed that with subject and determination, Celtic tin beryllium stopped.
And if they had content before, they'll person adjacent much content now.
Chairman Dave Cormack spoke post-match astir the finances, the income that volition travel from this triumph and the confirmation of European group-stage football.
That successful itself is huge. It volition springiness the nine and the fans, successful summation to the players, much belief.
For now, though, it's bedlam. It's each astir the partying and celebrating, which they merit to do.
They've created a portion of past here. And possibly it's conscionable the start...
FA Cup victor & erstwhile Scotland planetary Shaun Maloney was speaking to BBC Sport Scotland's Amy Canavan
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