St Johnstone 1-1 Aberdeen: Saints debutant Keltjens cancels out Bojan Miovski's penalty
Report as St Johnstone rescue 1-1 home draw against Aberdeen in the Scottish Premiership; Saints debutant David Keltjens scored late equaliser; Bojan Miovski's second-half penalty gave Aberdeen lead; Dons move seventh while Saints stay in 10th eight points clear of bottom club Livingston
Wednesday 24 January 2024 22:26, UK
David Keltjens scored on his debut to earn St Johnstone a 1-1 draw against Aberdeen after his skipper Liam Gordon twice fell foul of dubious game-changing VAR decisions.
Gordon was penalised for a foul on Jamie McGrath after Graham Carey thought he had volleyed Saints in front in the 49th minute.
And the defender was again adjudged to have committed a foul after John Beaton was called to his monitor by video assistant Steven Kirkland for a second time to review an incident in the other box.
Bojan Miovski took advantage as he converted the 62nd-minute penalty.
McGrath had already cleared the ball towards Carey when he was caught on the foot by Gordon and the penalty incident was similar. The centre-back was ruled to have caught Slobodan Rubezic as both attempted to meet Connor Barron's corner.
Neither foul seemed clear and obvious, certainly to the vast majority of the 3,472 fans inside McDiarmid Park.
But Saints refused to fall victim to a hard-luck story and Keltjens took advantage of some poor goalkeeping from Kelle Roos to head home in the 78th minute as Aberdeen missed the chance to move into the cinch Premiership top six.
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