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The National (Scotland)
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Mark Walker

Aberdeen fired ominous warning ahead of Europa Conference League opener

Shakhtar Donetsk manager Arda Turan has demanded perfection for Pittodrie in an ominous warning to Aberdeen ahead of this week's Europa Conference League opener.

Aberdeen will aim to forget their atrocious Premiership form as they welcome the Ukrainians for the first game in the league phase.

But while the Dons have collected just one point from their opening six league games and have failed to score a single goal, Shakhtar are already top of their league after a 4-0 weekend romp away to Rukh Vynnyky.

And former Barcelona and Atletico Madrid star Turan, who took charge of the club in May, wants even more for their trip to Scotland.

The 100-times capped former Turkish international said: "We want to be perfect and we are getting there.

"Recently, we played a game where we had 35 shots on goal and only scored once. Now our efficiency has significantly improved.

"I said to the guys at full time, this is what makes running at 7am at a training camp in Slovenia worthwhile. This is what we work for.

"We are playing the right way, showing we can play good football and I am enjoying imposing our style of play on opponents.

"We did everything right and now the challenge is to keep this up, moving onto the Europa Conference League."

And Pedrino - one of 12 Brazilians in their squad - was delighted after his double helped secure another win.

He said: "I think this victory is very important. It had a great impact on our morale.

"We are constantly improving and developing.

"In other games, we created a lot of chances and didn't score enough goals, but this time we took them."

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