League of Ireland in Europe 2016

[pineapple stu]

Oops. 2-2 now

[PartySaint]

Clifftonville 2-2 now. Sake

[pineapple stu]

Adam Rooney scores for Aberdeen; they're 2-0 up now.

Hearts still 0-0 in Malta and hibs still losing to that first minute goal against Brondby

Cliftonville losing now

[pineapple stu]

Birkirkara 0-0 hearts is a result.

A better result than West Ham managed there this time last year, granted, but still - the SPL is amazingly muck. Aberdeen had a half-credible title challenge last year. At least Hibs are first Division.

[bennocelt]

Connahs Quay concede in the 86th minute in Serbia; 1-0 now


according to uefa, 31 attempts on goal, wow.

[Dodge]

Its actually the 2nd time that all 3 remaining LOI clubs have been unbeaten in the first leg of the Second Qualifying Round in both UCL & UEL. The last time was in 2009, where by odd coincidence, the results were all 1-1 aswell!

Red Bull Salzburg 1-1 Bohemians - Eliminated in 2nd Leg
Skonto 1-1 Derry City - Progressed in 2nd Leg
Valletta 1-1 St. Patrick's Athletic - Progressed in 2nd Leg

The Pats first leg was in Dublin. Won the second leg 1-0 in Malta

[Pablo Escobar]

Our record at home I against Swedish clubs (afaik) is 1 win, 2 draws. 4 goals scored, 2 conceded. Hopefully we can improve on this. I think if we can avoid giving away silly frees out wide we'll be ok. We're particularly weak defending from that area. Other than that we won't give many (if any) goals away.

[TheBoss]

The Pats first leg was in Dublin. Won the second leg 1-0 in Malta

I typed it too quickly!



Our record at home I against Swedish clubs (afaik) is 1 win, 2 draws. 4 goals scored, 2 conceded. Hopefully we can improve on this. I think if we can avoid giving away silly frees out wide we'll be ok. We're particularly weak defending from that area. Other than that we won't give many (if any) goals away.

You sure? I have it as W2 D2 L0 - F5 A2, Really good record in fact. Played against Göteborg 1-0, Malmö 3-1, Djurgårdens 0-0 & Hammarby 1-1.

[TheBoss]

Dundalk could face:
Viktoria Plzeň (CZE) 44.585
FC Salzburg (AUT) 42.520 or Liepāja (LVA)
BATE Borisov (BLR) 34.000 or SJK Seinäjoki (FIN)
Ludogorets Razgrad (BUL) 25.625 or Mladost Podgorica (MNE)
FC København (DEN) 24.720 or Crusaders (NIR)


St Pats could face:
AEK Larnaca (CYP) 9.435 or Cliftonville (NIR)
AEK Athens (GRE) 7.940
Vojvodina (SRB) 7.925 or Connah's Quay (WAL)
Pandurii Târgu Jiu (ROU) 7.076
Lokomotiva Zagreb (CRO) 5.775 or RoPS Rovaniemi (FIN)


Cork could face:
Genk (BEL) 36.000 or Budućnost Podgorica (MNE)
Rapid Wien (AUT) 23.520
Hertha Berlin (GER) 16.035
Rijeka (CRO) 14.275
Arouca (POR) 10.616
Mladá Boleslav (CZE) 10.085

[PartySaint]

Raging Cliftonville threw away that 2 goal lead now. Hopefully we can get through and get the winners of the Connah Quay game and they manage to sneak through as well

[D24Saint]

Our best performance of the year. Thought we played very well & Fagans goal was an absolute cracker. It's set up to be a huge night next Thursday with another 230k on the line.

[Conroy]

Dundalk will play one of the following from Group 2:

Victoria Plzen
Salzburg 1-0 FK Lepaja
BATE 2-0 SJK Seinajoki
Ludogorets 2-0 FK Mladost Podgorica
Copenhagen 3-0 Crusaders

Champions league draw at 11am, Europa League at 12.

[pineapple stu]

Tough one for Dundalk, though par for the competition obviously.

Could they have a chance against Ludogorets? Drew with Liverpool in the 2014/15 Champions' League group stages, but then lost home and away in the first round of last year's competition.

[paul_oshea]

They have to get through out in Iceland first stu.

[pineapple stu]

Technicalities, Paul! :)

[pineapple stu]

Off to BATE again.

If they both win. BATE are 2-0 up from the home leg against Seinaejoen JK, who were a third-tier Finnish side four years ago, but won the top flight last year. That Finnish side lost home and away to FH last year - so there's two potential re-matches between Dundalk and BATE or Seinaejoen JK and FH.

[Real ale Madrid]

BATE Borisov if Dundalk get through

[White Horse]

Talk of the next round is a bit academic. Dundalk have a big job on their hands next week.

[seand]

Ah Jayyyzus

That said BATE are arguably the weakest of the seeds in the pot! FH will have a tough game there

[wonder88]

Excellent results for both Pats and Cork, give both a great chance to progress. Hope to get to one of the games next week, should be great atmosphere at them.

[dundalkfc10]

Excellent results for both Pats and Cork, give both a great chance to progress. Hope to get to one of the games next week, should be great atmosphere at them.

Surely Cork will have more than turned up to the Linfield game.

Would have went to Richmond, but il be in Iceland till Friday celebrating hopefully

[Real ale Madrid]

Vojvodina (SRB) 7.925 or Connah's Quay (WAL) v Dinamo Minsk (BLR) 10.000 or St Patrick's Athletic (IRL)

[seand]

Great draw for Pats/Dinamo. No easy draws in third round so Vojvodina (or CQN) was a good un

[Real ale Madrid]

Genk (BEL) 36.000 or Budućnost Podgorica (MNE) v Häcken (SWE) 5.975 or Cork City (IRL)

[patrickccfc]

Not such a good draw for us, should we make it through.

[paul_oshea]

You'd expect at least 1 of 3 to go through. I mean at least one should make it through, it would be a very bad night if they didnt. What are the odds on at least 1 getting through? I'll put a bet on that.

Looking at the draw you'd hope of the one to go through that its St Pats. If the figures mentioned yesterday, then that would mean if they could win the next round too, they would be in for at least:

•Play-off round elimination: €230,000
•Base fee for group stage: €2,400,000

Why are there only 26 member associations:
http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/news/newsid=2146866.html

[pineapple stu]

Those are CL figures you're looking for I think.

Elimination in the last Europa League qualifying round only gets you €240k

[paul_oshea]

Ya thanks, edited, one of those weeks.

its not great really for each round, but better than nothing I suppose.

12 million is huge for group stage participation.

[Dodge]

The EL payments are

QR1; €200k
QR2; €210k
QR3; €220k
PO; €230k

For the CL it's;
QR1; €200k
QR2; €300k
QR3; €400k
PO; €3m

So far Pats and Cork have €410k. Rovers got €200k.

Dundalk have earned €300k and will get €250k if they don't make CL group stages
Winning through on Tuesday guarantees them another €630k

[pineapple stu]

Have Dundalk not earned €500k? Do they not get the QR1 money too? Or is that basically the €250k you mention?

[Dodge]

Have Dundalk not earned €500k? Do they not get the QR1 money too? Or is that basically the €250k you mention?

No, they don't get that. For qualifiers you only get the money for qualifiers you play in.

They have guaranteed themselves €550k which is the €300k for QR2 and the €250k for not reaching CL group stages

[Acornvilla]

I didn't have a huge amount of hope for our clubs coming in to this season. Now there is genuine reason for optimism. Everyone has a chance to progress, Pats and Dundalk even with a glimmer that at least one of them could win the following round as well. I think if that were to happen, we'd all take it and it'd be an incredibly successful year.

Fully aware that there's a long way to go, all of the above would be a miracle, I'd probably be happy enough even if it ended up with only Dundalk progressing past FH, and taking their chances in an EL playoff but especially for Dundalk, this is a huge opportunity to make massive strides in Europe and financially, the income and profile generated from losing the 4th round playoff game and going in to the Europa League groups would be far greater than even what Shamrock Rovers received.

[Pablo Escobar]

I typed it too quickly!




You sure? I have it as W2 D2 L0 - F5 A2, Really good record in fact. Played against Göteborg 1-0, Malmö 3-1, Djurgårdens 0-0 & Hammarby 1-1.
Correct, I left the Gothenburg one out.

[D24Saint]

Looks set to be a sell out in Richmond well before next Thursday.

[MeathDrog]

HF drew 1-1 today in the league.

[patrickccfc]

Looks set to be a sell out in Richmond well before next Thursday.

That would be great. Think us and yourselves have given ourselves a great platform to progress and hopefully we both do it. Hoping for a big crowd for us too between 4.5 - 5k would be good

[GC13]

Three teams still in contention - may motivate fans to come out to more games - lets see what the the FAI and RTE will do?

[fionnsci]

I got an email from the FAI advertising Shamrock Rovers' Europa game. Nothing on any other game. Baffling why they'd choose one club and not the others.

[Charlie Darwin]

I got an email from the FAI advertising Shamrock Rovers' Europa game. Nothing on any other game. Baffling why they'd choose one club and not the others.
Because Rovers sent them a digital flyer and asked them to send it on to the mailing list.

Pats, on the other hand, didn't even bother making a graphic for their game.

"Baffling" indeed.

[Dodge]

Because Rovers sent them a digital flyer and asked them to send it on to the mailing list.

Pats, on the other hand, didn't even bother making a graphic for their game.

"Baffling" indeed.

Pats did their own posters. They had an ad in the Star and the posters were spread through the various social media channels.

Why would think they didn't do a graphic?

[Charlie Darwin]

Fair enough, I had a look around and didn't see one but clearly didn't look hard enough.

[geysir]

A couple of hours to kick off FH v Dundalk, weather is unusually hot and balmy, perfect for football. In the sports pages this morning there was an article about Dundalk, the headline was 'Dundalk are a strong team up to Icelandic standards (http://www.mbl.is/sport/efstadeild/2016/07/20/dundalk_er_sterkt_lid_a_islenskan_maelikvarda/)'
this was expressed as a statement of fact. As praise goes here, it doesn't get better than that. Strong team refers to viking values of fortitude, gumption, moral courage etc etc and to be regarded as up to the Icelandic standard is the gold. In between the words it's saying, forget about Glenavon, Bohs, Cork and Pats, this Dundalk team are the real deal and FH will have to dig deep.
I have to say I felt tingles of pride.

[Pablo Escobar]

A couple of hours to kick off FH v Dundalk, weather is unusually hot and balmy, perfect for football. In the sports pages this morning there was an article about Dundalk, the headline was 'Dundalk are a strong team up to Icelandic standards (http://www.mbl.is/sport/efstadeild/2016/07/20/dundalk_er_sterkt_lid_a_islenskan_maelikvarda/)'
this was expressed as a statement of fact. As praise goes here, it doesn't get better than that. Strong team refers to viking values of fortitude, gumption, moral courage etc etc and to be regarded as up to the Icelandic standard is the gold. In between the words it's saying, forget about Glenavon, Bohs, Cork and Pats, this Dundalk team are the real deal and FH will have to dig deep.
I have to say I felt tingles of pride.

KR were poor last year, but we were awful. By all accounts, Dundalk were poor last week, but still should have won comfortably. However, they didn't. If Dundalk perform, I don't think FH will live with them. All will be revealed soon I'd suppose.

You have a very selective memory too. You do realise that our clubs have also knocked Icelandic clubs out, yeah!?

Why are our clubs grouped with Glenavon btw?

[bennocelt]

any one have a good stream?

[Fester]

http://www.streamgaroo.com/live-sport/soccer/fh-hafnarfjordur-vs-dundalk-fc-live-stream-20160720

No commentary but you can hear the crowd.

[colonelwest]

http://firstrowir.eu/watch/450287/1/watch-fh-hafnarfjordur-vs-dundalk.html

No commentary, stream is good quality, Dundalk under the kosh so far

[Fester]

Great goal from FH - 1-0

[GCdfc]

Crap.

Wait to see the time wasting from their keeper. Every time there is a kick out he will walk away giving out to his defenders.

[bennocelt]

wow, that was poor, too easy

[paul_oshea]

But sure that's what these teams do play sh1tw football away from home and turn on the style at home.