Source: Team_Talk
Dons boss bemoans poor defending
Sone Aluko capitalised on some sustained pressure to fire Aberdeen ahead just after the hour mark at East End Park.
But, with nine minutes left, Nick Phinn bundled the ball over the line to level for Jim McIntyre's side after Jamie Langfield had parried Jamie Mole's 20-yard drive.
Calderwood felt Charlie Mulgrew should have stopped Mole's shot and he took the left-back off moments later.
"It was a sloppy goal," Calderwood said. "Charlie should have closed him down a lot earlier. He showed him inside.
"I don't think Jamie was too happy with himself either.
"All credit to big Jim, he threw men forward, but it was sloppy
defending. If he shows him inside he's got to block it.
"I thought at that moment we were dominating, probably from the start of the second half."
Calderwood helped turn the game in his side's favour around the half-hour mark when he moved Jamie Smith out wide from a central attacking role alongside Tommy Wright.
The Aberdeen manager said: "Dunfermline dominated in the first 20 minutes, they were causing us problems with their system.
"Stephen Glass was getting time on the ball and he's got good vision and a good pass.
"We brought Derek Young into midfield and played two wide men. It was a hard shift for Tommy against two very experienced players but he did well.
"After we got organised, it looked much better. Jamie got on the ball four or five times just after that and we looked a much better team.
"I wasn't too happy at half-time but the second half, for the first 25 minutes, we were brilliant. We should have finished them off.
"We looked dangerous, getting the ball side to side at pace. It was a good goal from Sone and really from that position we should have won the game."
However, the Dons manager was not too upset at the thought of a replay on March 17.
"It's a difficult place to come," Calderwood said. "They have probably got more SPL experience than us. So it was a hard, hard game.
"We came here to win the game but we're still in it and that's the most important thing."
McIntyre praised his players for fighting back and adapting to the more offensive system.
"It's all right changing the shape but the players have to carry it out and I thought they were excellent," he said.
"I thought we merited an equaliser. We started better and had the better scoring opportunities.
"But they're a quality side and we found it difficult after half-time. They were pushing us back, I just thought we got a bit stretched.
"But they responded in the right manner after the changes."
Dunfermline lost striker Graham Bayne to what looked a serious head wound early in the second half.
McIntyre said: "He has stitches in his tongue and stitches over his eye. His eye is practically shut. That's Graham Bayne, he gives everything for the cause."
