Bojan Miovski lands Aberdeen FC love bomb from Neil Warnock as boss declares him 'best he's ever had'

Neil Warnock claimed Scottish Cup hero Bojan Miovski is the best striker he has ever had - but admitted the rest of his Aberdeen team need to take some of the scoring burden off his shoulders.

The North Macedonian hit a first-half double to see off Bonnyrigg Rose and book the Dons place in the quarter-finals. Miovski took his tally for the season to 22 and 40 in his Aberdeen career and Warnock praised him again, after calling him the best striker in the league and backing him to get 30 goals after his visit to Rangers last week.

Warnock, who got off to winning ways at Pittodrie, said: “What can you say about him? Believe it or not, I said to him score a couple of goals and come off at half-time, or if you want 15 more minutes you can have 15 minutes to get your hat-trick and he scored two goals! We had a wink at each other when he got his goals.

He wanted to stay on a bit longer. He is just a top finisher. I’ve always struggled with strikers if I’m honest, all through my career. I’ve been good at goalies and centre-halves and midfielders but never really with a striker. It’s ironic isn’t it coming to this stage of my career I’ve got probably the best one I’ve ever had.”

Miovski has scored all Aberdeen’s goals bar once since the break. Warnock added: “It’s disappointing but you can’t fault the effort. Duk and Shayden contributed a lot. I felt sorry for Duk because I had to move him after half an hour because I thought we were getting a little bit overrun in midfield so I wanted to bring Dante in. So I asked Duk to do the left role which is a thankless task at times but he did it without complaint.”

Warnock spoke pre-match and claimed he hadn’t dropped players but wanted to take a look at one or two. Many Dons’ fans