So close, Towell. Good stuff from Rovers. These guys can be got at.
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So close, Towell. Good stuff from Rovers. These guys can be got at.
Mccann much better this game but I said after the slogan first game last year and I said it last week they were not good performances and I put it down to Bradley. They're playing with no fear tonight. Pressing high and countering much quicker. These lads thought they could cruise through
Loi sides aren't good enough to sit deep and soak up pressure. It's Another what if for me and worrying what happens when they meet another half decent side in the El or ecl
Ludo have definitely come expecting a stroll in the park. They’ve shown little or no ambition. But Rovers have also shown them no respect and panicked them into giving up easy ball. They may well have another level to go up to and if Rovers score again they may need it.
Exactly. They have to learn something this evening as there's every chance they would get a team of a similar ability again IF they make the ECONF. But thy're doing well, bright, passing well, should be 2-0 up, as another poster said. Seems like they already learned something from last week.Quote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
Dinamo Zagreb 1 up on Shkupi….
Now lads imagine if they'd gone out and played properly in the first leg ?
Game on, Ludogorets player sent off. Rovers have to go for this now.
There's no coming back from 3-0 down surely?
Very rare event in Europe, and never achieved by an LoI side. But a goal in the next few minutes will get Ludo sweating.
Of course. Its still an very uphill task, but it certainly should be an advantage to them. They'd have taken a goal up and them a man down after 60 mins this morning. And, yeah, a nother goal for Rovers will really make things interesting, but they've been the one's most likely all evening so far.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Towell should have gone for it there so silly
To come back from 3 down is a tall order. Tonight is all about a performance and result to take into the next tie. Building confidence and momentum is key in Europe. It has to be said, Rovers tend to be very good at home and a match for most sides. It is away from home that they struggle.
Agree with this whatever happensQuote:
Originally Posted by ger121
If Towell goes through he surely scores, but fell way too easily. Good reffing really. That would have made things very interesting, but just now, it looks like they're a bit empty in the tank and Ludogorets are starting to look for a goal themselves. Ludogorets have managed the sending off very weel to be fair. Beating them at all is still a great achievement if it happens and would give them a lot of confidence.
Not watching online - what's happened since the red? Have Ludogorets just shut up shop?
I actually suggested that the third goal in Bulgaria may have helped Rovers get a result here and I wonder if there was actually anything in that in the end. But ger is right that Rovers should take some confidence from this into what looks like a tie with Shkupi next. Though it'd be typical LoI now for them to lose the easy game having put in what seems quite a decent performance here.
Been all Ludogorets since the sending off really, they had 2 good attempts at goal too, Rovers look done and dusted.
Hello!
2-0 and a minute to go.
2 nil! That 94th minute 3rd goal last week could really be a killer.
Well ...
Never mind my comment there >.>
Game over. Pity great effort
Nah, you were onto something it seems.Quote:
Originally Posted by SPXcyan
2-1 now. Unlucky.
That's a pity.
****ing eejits throwing ****
Shameful stuff probably young fans.n find then and ban them
Loads of positivity there, but plenty of frustration too. Ludogorets players, especially the goalkeeper were master time-wasters, though he hardly deserved the bottling he got from behind the goal. Rovers showed something tonight that finally said they could play at this level. Onto the EL qualifying, but they should take a lot of confidence from this.
Good showing tonight, hopefully the saints and the other srfc do the business now.
Disappointing overall but a good performance. Not buying the above comments about approaching the first leg differently. The context isn't the same. The scoreline being so comfortable for them is what allowed us to play the way we did and if we'd pressed them like that away from home they would've cut us apart. Having Burke on from the start was key as well. He's streets ahead of Watts. Away from home everything broke down when it hit Watts, tonight Burke was able to hurt them.
Gives me some hope against Skhupi any way. Hopefully we have one of Pico or Jack back.....doubtful though.
That p!ssed me off! I'd gotten to the point of getting over any rivalry and being disappointed at the conceded goal at 2-0 after wanting a barnstorming finish, only to then feel fook it when a bunch of Rovers fans started firing things on the pitch. Not fair to tar all the same but its now a talking point rather than full focus on the game.Quote:
Originally Posted by sbgawa
Similar to last year, i feel Rovers are too conservative, give too much respect to these sides in the 1st leg and they then show that they could possible have been fully in the tie all along.
You need that “doubtful “to be a Paul Osam doubtful, certain starters and scorers.Quote:
Originally Posted by ontheotherhand
Rovers lack pace and it gets shown up in Europe where it doesn’t in the league,need Farugia,Gaffney and Emakhu to hopefully bring more of that in the Europa league stage,Byrne is a big miss for them aswell….
honestly think if jack and burke play both legs we win.
have to pray they both make it for next week.
home leg first , lets tear into them
At least 20 bottles thrown by the so called fans in the South Stand - no reaction by Gardai or Security staff as us usual …. Utter *****s who dont deserve the benefit of all the effort that allows for big European nights … as an aside two bottles thrown back at the fans by Ludo players…. The players that did that should of been arrested at full time and jailed for a few nights … utter cnuts the way Ludi carried on or neutrals might call professional killing the game
As for our performance ; it was fantastic and a credit to the team and Bradley and his management
Or 'game management' and as annoying as it is Rovers need to become masters of the art and use it to progress, especially when team are coming at you that are getting a foothold in a game and could overturn a 1st leg deficit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Calcio Jack
All in all a decent evening for Rovers. The most important result this evening was actually in Macedonia. Massive opportunity for Rovers to get the group stage qualification sewn up early and likely also get a glamour tie against a team from a decent league in the Europa (Hearts would be great tie).
Real shades of the Tallinn tie with this one. Rovers have no divine right to be putting away sides from these countries but it's what needs to be done 9/10 if we're ever going to progress to being in a mid-ranked league.
The European teams are all masters at cynical play. I remember Bate at it the year they beat Dundalk and also Legia as well at the Aviva were cynical A F at times.
Only way around it is to beat them at their own game. Get ahead and be cynical to them and they won't be long about getting frustrated.
While there is no excuses for the plastic bottles being thrown their keeper really goaded the south stand when they scored, i was watching and waiting thinking dont get sucked in, cont get sucked in thinking wow he is not going to get something pegged at him but the weak minded succumbed one was thrown and then the following 20. Their players were all looking for Hollywood roles hitting the deck at every opportunity. The ref tbf was having none of it. At the final whistle again the keeper began goading but was pushed up the pitch and away by a big ball hopper. Anyway aside from our 20 or soon weakminded goons what a night so proud of that team.
i used to work with a fella who typically had a quarter pounder meal on the way home from the gym.Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
all teams have some ‘game management’ but tonight was beyond a joke. In the last 20 every time the whistle blew one of them was on the floor. In agony. Every time!Quote:
Originally Posted by Nesta99
Overall, great effort from Rovers and atmosphere was brilliant. Sad to see the bottle throwing and the fine that will inevitably come with it. Took away from a very creditable night.
Rovers game management was actually really good up to the sending off. They needed to score quickly after it but had run out of steam a bit. They had to make the changes but it killed momentum, they lost shape and Ludo started to create chances and kill the game at every opportunity.
Second goal came just a bit too late and then Rovers got caught throwing everything forward carelessly. The result should give some confidence and belief, but there’s no guarantee in these games.
Was it effective?Quote:
Originally Posted by Knocklyonhoop