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0-0 at half time.
Glens have had a few chances, but Shels are clearly the better side. Shels had a great period after half an hour when they should have scored 2 or 3 goals.
Anyone who can't watch it on RTE 2, can listen to it on BBC Radio Ulster. (Click on Live Glentoran v Shelbourne - underneath Wycombe Wanderers v Chelsea :rolleyes: )
PS - its 1-0 to L'pool after 17 mins.
:ball: 1-0 Shels
Jason Byrne 55mins.
LiverPOO 2 - 0 TNS
:ball: 2-0 Shels
64mins Jason Byrne (pen)
a good penalty
Have to say they are looking very good and have dominated the match. The tie is looking like it is only their's to lose.
:ball: 2-1
Sean Ward 77mins - a bit lucky to get a second bite at it, but well hit in the end.
1-2 sean ward
considering glendinning and melaugh are absent and the glens have had only 2 weeks pre-season they're hanging in ok.
more pressure from glens now
2-1 Shels FT
Glens came back into it in the end and nearly got an equaliser, but Shels were clearly the better team.
I suppose they will take that, but 2 nil was so much more better than 2-1, the tie is still alive now. Should be a cracker in Tolka though :)
I'm just happy that Shels have just won the eL 3 points in the UEFA co-efficient league. Another win at Tolka and that will be 6 points. That's a good start to making up Bohs' Aberdeen & Kaiserslautern points that we will lose after this year.
What a smashing game of football - Bravo Shels for such lovely football and also to the Glens for a stirring fightback.
After this game and Setanta, we must have a league emcompassing the clubs from north and south. So what if a few "suits" and "blazers" are made redundant. :)
Dont think its three points. 1 win equals 1 point, divided by no. of european entrants (3 - Shels, Longford, Cork) is 0.333 points to our coefficient.Quote:
Originally Posted by crc
Improvement on last year. None of last year's entrants won a game in the first qualifying round.
Should've been more. Glentoran were sub-par and we shouldn't have let them back into the game. Also Glen Fitzpatrick played abismally when he came on, Crowe would want to have been absoluted wrecked to warrant him being taken off. Their keeper stopped a rout. Would want to win at home, would be dissapointed with anything else. As for Steau.....
I wasn't able to get to the game so watched on the TV.
Shels were far better than the 2-1 scoreline suggested, but the way we fell back and let Glens back into it was pathetic. Byrne off Crawford on? Joke decision. Really we should have put the thing beyond any doubt whatsoever, but unless we play very poor in the return leg we should beat them in Tolka Park espically with Ndo back in the team, we were by far the better side. If we can get two wins it's good for the co-efficent, already we have equalled what we got in the first round last year.
Good luck to Cork and Longford tomorrow.
Cracking game; fair dues to Glentoran for making a game of it for the last quarter of an hour, though the game should have been buried by then. Referee, incidentally, was appalling (again... :rolleyes: Wasn't it the same lad from the Ireland-Israel game last month?) - Glentoran should have had three red cards - one for the elbow, one for the penalty (last man) and one for McCallion for deliberate handball when he was already on a yellow (and Hoolihan was booked for the exact same thing just minutes before). Ref bottled it on every single occasion.
Why didn't Ndo come on? He played against us, which is a few weeks ago now, so he must be fully fit by now. He'd have been perfect for a game like that against tiring and demoralised part-timers - would have torn them apart.
I can only assume Ndo is injured or Fenlon has lost his marbles. He should walk into our side, if he picked Baker ahead of him he needs his head checked. I really hope he was injured.
Why would he be on the bench if he was injured though?
when is the 2nd leg? 1 week won't do much for glentoran's fitness or match readiness but 2 weeks might.
Next week (Wednesday), live on RTÉ also.
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