LOI in Europe 2022

[placid casual]

Finn and O'Neill are injured and Burke and Byrne are doubtful.
Think a draw is about the limit of our ambitions tonight.

[WeAreRovers]

Unless I'm missing somwthing, the problem Rovers face isn't with 'trying'. It's with the fact they're playing teams who are just a lot better than them. The higher you go in football the more that small margins become influential - and that's what you pay for from quality players. The difference between almost putting away a chance and actually doing so.

Haven't looked at this thread in a while funnily enough but the quoted post sums up the entire Rovers in Europe argument for me and applies right across Europe to the CL, EL & ECL group stages.

Rovers join the likes of Celtic, Rangers, Viktoria Plzen, Marseille, FC Zurich, Dynamo Kyiv, Helsinki, Malmo, Omonia, Olympiacos, Steau, Austria Wein, Vaduz and more in being thoroughly outclassed in this year's group stages.

Sometimes you're just not as good as the opposition and the job in that context is to qualify consistently and make incremental improvements year on year. Ange Postecoglou and Stephen Bradley among many others face the same challenge - translating domestic dominance into competitive European group stage campaigns.

[2 Year Contract]

Rovers join the likes of Celtic, Rangers, Viktoria Plzen, Marseille, FC Zurich, Dynamo Kyiv, Helsinki, Malmo, Omonia, Olympiacos, Steau, Austria Wein, Vaduz and more in being thoroughly outclassed in this year's group stages.

I see your overall point but with one CL group game left Marseille can top their group if they win coupled with a draw in the other game.

On rovers, the gap between them and Molde/Gent/Djurgardens isn’t/shouldn’t appear to be anything like the gap between Rangers and Liverpool/Napoli/Ajax. Ludogorets (who rovers ran close and are currently lie in 2nd place in their group, 3 points above Roma) would be a better side than any of rovers group opponents but the group stage performances from rovers haven’t been near that Ludogorets 2nd leg performance level or even the 2nd leg performance level of the win against Ferencvaros who are current top of a group with Monaco/Trabzonspor/Red Star Belgrade and would absolutely stroll past the 3 sides in rovers group if they were paired with them

[MichaelCherrito]

Perfect start for Rovers.

Cannot believe bookies were offering 6/1 for a home win.

[ger121]

Perfect start for Rovers.

Cannot believe bookies were offering 6/1 for a home win.

I could always see why the LOI was big for overseas betting.Some of the odds in games are ridiculous and show a lack of knowledge of the game here, even by the “local” bookies.

[pineapple stu]

Great start from Rovers. Gent getting back into it though and - famous last words here! - you can't see Rovers keeping them out for 90 minutes really.

[ger121]

Crazy the amount of injuries Rovers have had. Lucky the league is wrapped up going into Sunday. At this rate Bradley be coming on.

[pineapple stu]

Bit of booing at the half-time whistle there I think - what's that about?

[ger121]

Bit of booing at the half-time whistle there I think - what's that about?

Gent Fans according to Dan McDonnell.

[pineapple stu]

Must be TV mics right in front of them; I can't imagine they'd have come across that clearly in the ground!

[paul_oshea]

I've seen enough of young ferizaj now to see he hasn't progressed in the European games. His level is about the qualifier stage in Europe. Your pace only gets worse as you get older and he doesn't have that to set him apart, not the strength to hold off players and keep the ball and he can't sell a player. Good touch but that's really all he has. Now he's off

[pineapple stu]

That goal's been coming a while in fairness, and so soon after the Ferizaj sending-off is a really tough blow.

Long 20 minutes ahead now.

[paul_oshea]

And there ye go. Needless sending off. And they concede

[pineapple stu]

Can't understand why Gent have dropped the tempo since the goal

Rovers, with the early subs too, should be far tireder here

[paul_oshea]

Decent result overall.. neither team had many clear cut chances