League of Ireland in Europe 2017

[ger121]

City level

[pineapple stu]

Cork equalise. Dooley.

Breathe...

[DannyInvincible]

Cork equalise on the night through Dooley. 1-1 in Turners Cross. 3-1 on aggregate. That should relieve the nerves.

[pineapple stu]

City behind again

[paul_oshea]

Theyd want to be careful....

[White Horse]

Two away goals in Cork. Careful now.

[DannyInvincible]

Graham Burke puts Rovers ahead. 2-0 on aggregate.

[pineapple stu]

Geysir goes into hiding...

1-0 Rovers

[White Horse]

Geysir goes into hiding...

1-0 Rovers

Rovers are much the better team. There is no pace in that Icelandic side, a very poor side.

[pineapple stu]

Derry heading for double digits.

First time since Zimbru?

[Straightstory]

Cork doing their best to mess this up. Nervy times.

[paul_oshea]

Caufield and his arrogance now his negative side taking over.

If they go through its still the old porous defence...

[pineapple stu]

Comeback on!

Derry score

[White Horse]

"Game on" says Liam Coyle.

[DannyInvincible]

Video of Graham Burke's goal that put Rovers 1-0 ahead in Tallaght: https://twitter.com/eirSport/status/883044082301280256

[patrickccfc]

Clear hand ball in front of the linesman for their second. Don't know how it wasn't given. Need to up it considerably in the second half.

[paul_oshea]

Well worked goal. Great finish by Burke ye can see he came up through an English academy team

[bennocelt]

Ah come on Cork, L Tallinn really are not that great..........

[pineapple stu]

Cork looking steeped that they had to play against ten men in Tallinn

[Closed Account]

Get in, cork 2-2

[ToberonaTornado]

Jim Allister will be well pleased by the colour of the ball he sponsored!!:rolleyes::D
Ballymena and ODDS BK currently 0-0 @ h/t but the locals are 3 down on agg from 1st leg.

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

[pineapple stu]

Maguire with the equaliser for Cork. An overdue European goal from play for him

[pineapple stu]

9-2 Midtylland.

[ger121]

9-2 Midtylland.

Was Zimbru the last double digit aggregate defeat?

Sorry, the answer is of course Derry.

[TonyD]

Was Zimbru the last double digit aggregate defeat?

Who ?

[pineapple stu]

Derry won't lose 6-1 again anyway.

Except they might. 4-1 Now. 10-2 aggregate

[pineapple stu]

Was Zimbru the last double digit aggregate defeat?
Yeah, that was my guess a bit earlier on the thread alright.

I know Midtylland are good, but this is surprisingly wojus from Derry

[White Horse]

Do Shamrock Rovers have a big white sticker on the back of their shirts tonight?

[DannyInvincible]

Do Shamrock Rovers have a big white sticker on the back of their shirts tonight?

They have two big white stickers. One big square for the numbers and another white strip across the top of that for the players' names.

Edit: Actually, on closer look, I think it's just the one big white sticker. The white hoop against the green underneath the semi-transparent sticker made it look like Rovers had the players' names on a separate sticker. Optical illusion. :o

[pineapple stu]

3-2 Cork

[DannyInvincible]

Another goal for Maguire. 3-2 to Cork. Good stuff.

[White Horse]

The Icelandic team are missing some amount of chances.

[ger121]

4-2 now

[Closed Account]

4-2 Cork now. Made hard work but comfortable in the end.

[DannyInvincible]

4-2 to Cork. Maguire hat-trick.

[pineapple stu]

Maguire hat-trick now. Fair dues. Good result in the end; tougher days ahead

[pineapple stu]

Last LoI player to score a hat-trick in Europe?

Are you going back to the days of big wins v Vetra, Rhyl, Aberystwyth and Glentoran?

[ger121]

Last LoI player to score a hat-trick in Europe?

Are you going back to the days of big wins v Vetra, Rhyl, Aberystwyth and Glentoran?

Trick question maybe with that list?

Twitter gave it away. Patterson

[pineapple stu]

Against Aberystwyth?

[DannyInvincible]

Strong finish from Rovers as Stjarnan chase goals and leave space at the back.

[ger121]

Against Aberystwyth?

I presume so.

[White Horse]

How is that not a red card??

[ger121]

Correct me if I'm wrong but LOI teams won a total of 5 games last year. 4 wins so far. Be nice now if one of the sides went on a run.

[DannyInvincible]

How is that not a red card??

Shocking two-footed tackle with studs on show. Should have been a straight red.

Anyway, both Cork and Rovers through. A good night for the league considering there was no chance of Derry progressing anyway, although a 10-2 loss on aggregate is still embarrassing. Shiels' open game-plan was madness against opposition like Midtjylland.

[Ezeikial]

See corks backbone now.

I had forgotten the negative side to foot.ie & LoI in Europe

[Philosophizer]

Good win for rovers, but thought they were overly cautious after they got the goal and it could have cost them. They were clearly a better team in the first half. Passing was crisp, movent was direct and they could have scored more. In the 2nd half though they were clearly under instruction not attack too much but they didn't know how to execute it. When they had possession, players didn't know how to play. movement was poor and disjointed and it made a bad spectacle. They had quite a few sloppy moments and scares at the back but a win is a win. They pressured stjarnan for a few mins near the end and could have scored a couple more.

[White Horse]

Rovers will only get away with that sloppiness against poor sides, but will need to up their game significantly in the next round.

Still it is the result that counts and they will know better than anyone that they will need to improve.

[pineapple stu]

So Rovers v Mlada Boleslav next, and Cork against Larnaka, who are currently losing in Gibraltar, though they won 5-0 last week.

Tough one for Rovers; we've a very poor record v Czech teams. I'm not convinced by Cork in Europe yet, but Larnaka's not a bad second round draw.

[Philosophizer]

I was over in Mlada Boleslav a few yrs ago and caught a match against Plzen. Plzen won it 3-1 but they were qualifying for CL group stages about that time. Mlada Boleslav will be a level ahead of Rovers so they have their work cut out. Rovers will need to have a v good day and I hope Mlada Boleslav have a bad day. Not impossible though.

[patrickccfc]

Had to work for that tonight. First half wasn't great, their second was just ridiculous really, the while ground saw it was hand ball and the linesman was only yards away. Crucial goal right at the start of the second half and they didn't get many chances. God we are seriously going to miss Maguire when he's gone. Our record goal scorer in Europe now. Tougher tie ahead against Larnaka. Congrats rovers too, 4 wins out of 6 is good for the league.