League of Ireland in Europe 2016

[gufcfan]

Lucky the keeper chose wrong. Looked a missed peno all over as he shaped up.

[nigel-harps1954]

Hyland a very lucky boy there. What was he even at

[nigel-harps1954]

Hyland makes a balls of things again and RoPS equalise.

[pineapple stu]

Well that didn't last long

[MeathDrog]

Embarrassing stuff.

[nigel-harps1954]

Rovers been far the better side for most of it but too many schoolboy errors costing them.

[nigel-harps1954]

Hyland having a nightmare.

[MeathDrog]

Rovers been far the better side for most of it but too many schoolboy errors costing them.
How poor must they have been to have lost 2-0 at home. Rops very ordinary.

[Charlie Darwin]

Rovers 1 - 1 Hyland

[pineapple stu]

Rops 1-1 Rofl?

[MeathDrog]

Well I suppose the objective hasn't changed a whole bunch. Rovers needed 3 goals anyway.

[pineapple stu]

This is how the UEFA rankings are looking at present -


Rank Country Pts Pts today Total Pts Over In play To start
40 Latvia 5.250 - 5.250 - 2 1
41 Armenia 4.375 0.625 5.000 2 1 0
42 Montenegro 4.750 0.125 4.875 - 1 2
43 Macedonia 4.750 - 4.750 - 0 3
44 Luxembourg 4.500 0.125 4.625 - 1 1
45 Ireland 4.450 0.125 4.575 - 1 1
46 Estonia 4.250 - 4.250 - 1 1
47 Northern Irl 4.125 - 4.125 - 0 3
47 Lithuania 3.875 0.250 4.125 - 2 1
49 Wales 3.500 - 3.500 - 0 3
49 Faroe Islands 3.500 - 3.500 - 0 3


We started the year in 41st...

[pineapple stu]

Europa have beaten Pyunik 3-2 on aggregate. Amazing result. They lost 9-0 to Slovan Bratislava this time last year.

[brendy_éire]

Europa have beaten Pyunik 3-2 on aggregate. Amazing result. They lost 9-0 to Slovan Bratislava this time last year.

Mad result. By comparison, that Pyunik side beat ourselves 2-0 back in 2007.

[pineapple stu]

The Rovers match is streaming on YouTube too, for those who don't want pop-up ads aplenty and are willing to compromise a fair bit on video quality...

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Actually - no sound either.

[pineapple stu]

Fola Esch 1-0 Aberdeen! Just on half-time. 2-3 on aggregate, after Aberdeen scored twice in injury time in the first leg.

McCabe's penalty is on YouTube here -

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[pineapple stu]

Another mad score - Stabaek 0-1 Connah's Quay Nomads! 20 minutes gone.

First leg ended 0-0. Billy McKinlay not far off the sack there I'd say; hasn't done well at all since taking over last year.

[nigel-harps1954]

Couple of rather comedic dives from these Finnish lads.

[pineapple stu]

Two quick goals for Nomme Kalju, and the Estonian league has passed us out.

Down to 46th now...


Points Matches
Rank Country Start Today Total Over In play To start
40 Latvia 5.250 0.125 5.375 1 1 1
41 Armenia 4.375 0.625 5.000 2 1 0
41 Montenegro 4.750 0.250 5.000 1 1 1
43 Macedonia 4.750 - 4.750 0 1 2
43 Luxembourg 4.500 0.250 4.750 0 1 1
45 Estonia 4.250 0.375 4.625 0 2 0
46 Ireland 4.450 0.125 4.575 0 1 1
47 N Ireland 4.125 - 4.125 0 0 3
48 Lithuania 3.875 - 3.875 0 3 0
48 Wales 3.500 0.375 3.875 0 2 1
50 Faroe Islands 3.500 0.125 3.625 0 1 2

[nigel-harps1954]

Goal disallowed for offside. Rather harsh call on Rovers that.

[nigel-harps1954]

Embarrassing for Rovers to be put out by a side as poor as RoPS. Honestly would fancy Finn Harps to beat these lads over two legs.

[pineapple stu]

2-0 to Dinamo Minsk now - 4-1 on aggregate, so Pat's are off to Belarus.

[ger121]

Well Rovers out but least they added something to the co-efficient. On track to hopefully beat last year's total. The key for me to a possible good score is Dundalk getting past FH, which would ensure a minimum of 4 more games. Let's see where we ranked when this is all over.

[pineapple stu]

10 minutes for Fola Esch to find a second and knock Aberdeen out on away goals.

They must be really regretting conceding twice in injury time last week...

Fola are managed by Jeff Strasser, who was in the Kaiserslautern team that scraped by Bohs about 15 years ago.

[pineapple stu]

Stabaek down to ten men, still needing to score twice to knock out Connah's Quay Nomads.

[ger121]

Stabaek down to ten men, still needing to score twice to knock out Connah's Quay Nomads.

Hope they can do it. Would be a super result.

[Charlie Darwin]

Embarrassing for Rovers to be put out by a side as poor as RoPS. Honestly would fancy Finn Harps to beat these lads over two legs.
Wouldn't go that far. They have worse players than us but are better organised and work harder. Two poor sides.

[pineapple stu]

Fola did beat Aberdeen in the end, but go out 3-2 on aggregate. Amazing result, even if there is a fair bit of cash in Luxembourg football lately.

[White Horse]

2-0 to Dinamo Minsk now - 4-1 on aggregate, so Pat's are off to Belarus.


The Pats club secretary must be cursing their look. He better get busy quickly.

[pineapple stu]

Radio coverage of Cork v Linfield here (http://rebelradioccfc.myl2mr.com/)

[pineapple stu]

Connah's Quay have a lad sent off, but he'd previously been subbed off anyway, so they still have 11 on the pitch. Strange one!

[pineapple stu]

Cliftonville 1-0 up against Differdange in seconds.

What a weird week for Luxembourg teams.

Here's how the UEFA rankings are looking now - if Linfield beat Cork, the North go ahead of us.


Points Matches
Rank Country Start Today Total Over In play
40 Latvia 5.250 0.250 5.500 3 0
41 Macedonia 4.750 0.500 5.250 0 3
42 Montenegro 4.750 0.250 5.000 1 2
43 Armenia 4.375 0.500 4.875 2 1
44 Luxembourg 4.500 0.250 4.750 1 0
44 Estonia 4.250 0.500 4.750 1 1
46 Ireland 4.450 0.250 4.700 1 0
47 N Ireland 4.125 0.500 4.625 0 0
48 Lithuania 3.875 0.125 4.000 2 1
49 Wales 3.500 0.250 3.750 0 3
50 Faroe Islands 3.500 0.125 3.625 0 3

[pineapple stu]

Glenavon losing at home to KR, having led for a good while in Reykjavik only to lose 2-1.

[ger121]

Connah's Quay have a lad sent off, but he'd previously been subbed off anyway, so they still have 11 on the pitch. Strange one!

Spotted that. Couldn't figure out what the hell was going on.

[nigel-harps1954]

Glenavon 1-0 down at home to KR after 6 minutes. They need 2 goals without reply to force extra time.

[pineapple stu]

Matt Derbyshire, ex Blackburn and Nottingham Forest, scores his second goal in two games for Omonia Nicosia against Banants Yerevan. Random place for him to go to. Omonia lost 1-0 after 90 minutes, but it went to extra time, and they won 4-1 aet.

384 is the official crowd at Stabaek v Connah's Quay Nomads - and that's the Norway leg, not the Welsh leg. But they've won and will probably play Vojvodina Novi Sad next.

[nigel-harps1954]

Looks a decent crowd in Turners Cross from pictures on Twitter. Shed doesn't look to have a spare seat, and the away section is packed out too.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CmyJ3CcWcAEF_LP.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CmyKLgvXYAQS1yb.jpg

[pineapple stu]

Glenavon 0-2 KR now; that's all over.

[ger121]

Glenavon 0-2 KR now; that's all over.

Geysir will be relieved. Not been a good day so far for the Icelandic teams. Valur took a pasting 10-1 on agg.

[pineapple stu]

1-1 in Cork now; Cork had the lead for all of five minutes.

Nervous times ahead.

[ger121]

Ok, mad few minutes. City take the lead and then Linfield score. Hmmm

[nigel-harps1954]

Cork had the lead for two and a half minutes. They still really need another goal.

Glenavon 0-3 KR now too

[pineapple stu]

Differdange down to ten men in Belfast.

[pineapple stu]

Just seen Niall Quinn is playing up front for Linfield!

[White Horse]

Ok, mad few minutes. City take the lead and then Linfield score. Hmmm

They're making hard work of it. Linfield looked so poor in Belfast last week.

[ger121]

They're making hard work of it. Linfield looked so poor in Belfast last week.

I see a trend emerging with all our clubs. Not clinical enough in matches, resulting in making very hard work of winnable situations. Rovers excluded of course:p

[nigel-harps1954]

Glenavon 0-4 KR.

Glenavon only need to score 6 goals in 15 minutes.

[pineapple stu]

5-0 now

[pineapple stu]

6-0.

Jaysus.

[nigel-harps1954]

They only need 8 goals in 7 minutes. Easy.