Belated Congrats on a fine win. Goodluck in Sweden
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Belated Congrats on a fine win. Goodluck in Sweden
Great Result Lads.
Only got back from the hols yesterday morning but had regular texts coming from the Cross.
Hopefully we can get through to the next round.
Just goes to show that the eL isn't all kick & run. eL clubs ain;t gonna get results in Europe unless they pass the ball & city probably had their best footballer son show saturday.
It is only the Inter Toto Cup but Malmo looked like serious opposition on paper (not much comparison but beat Portadown 6-0 on agg in last years Uefa Cup) plus they have summer season too (even if have berak for euro 2004) but city easily passed the ball as well as them. 3-1 a fair result but away goal a dampner.
Sure anyone who wants to see the sports news from Six One yesterday can paste this link into Real Player.Quote:
Originally Posted by thecorner
http://www.rte.ie/news/2004/0620/6news/6news56_8.smil
You should skip forward by 7 minutes and 20 seconds.
Poor quality image though.
work was great to day everyone on about city results, great feeling .Its great seen so many loi fans also wishing city well thanks.the flags looked great in the shed well done to the lads ,i was surprised such a small crowd there loss.
to put our three goals in perspective. malmo have played 9 games in their league - they have conceded 5 goals in TOTAL
Great Night, Great Win....I thought the passion the players showed was amazing. It was the first night that i saw George really give it a go. He was my man of the match by a mile. He worked his socks off. Fair play.
Wonderful result lads -- pathetic coverage in 'Irish' sports media. Stuff 'em in Sweden too, but take a breather in the meantime, will ya? :)
Volvo and Saab are no longer Swedish and isn't Carlsberg Danish?
Oh, and the biggest error of all was the Swedish Chef. He was an American creation. :D FS Lads!!
I presume u mean the car companies not Swedish cos owned by foreign corporations? Would that mean Guinness not irish then? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike1
www.unison.ie
Gospel according to Dolan converts Euro sceptic Leesiders
FEW who have worked closely with Pat Dolan would have been surprised at the manner in which his Cork City side executed last weekend's magnificent success against Malmo, a result which now leaves them tantalizingly close to qualification for an InterToto Cup second round tie against the eminently beatable Dutch side NEC Nijmegen.
Small ripples in a European club pool perhaps but, on Leeside, the gospel of Dolan has finally demonstrated its ability to form a huge wave of emotion wash over a passionate Rebel Army who have been bereft of nights like these for too long.
The passionate myopia of Dolan - whose relationship to football is arguably as devoutly intimate as that of his mentor Brian Kerr - laid the platform for Saturday night's 3-1 success at Turners Cross where, for one tiny corner of Europe at least, the enthralling encounter between the Czech Republic and the Dutch did not arrest the population's attention.
Those proud spectators in the Cross last Saturday were enveloped in a cocoon which allowed complete and utter self-absorption. Dolan swathed his players in an equally secure blanket, single-mindedly inculcating in each of them a belief that they had every right to beat Malmo.
He denuded them of any doubts they have had of their ability to prosper at a level which, although moderate by European club standards, remains far above that produced weekly by the attritional domestic game.
That many of Dolan's side possessed international experience at U21 level was an obvious boon, especially since few of his side boasted that much competitive experience in UEFA club competitions.
Dolan's ability to harness his own experience of the European game was critical. The exhaustive research he compiled on the Swedish outfit rivalled the approach that is being undertaken as a matter of course, and at much greater expense, by coaching staff at the current Euro 2004 championships.
Undeterred by the late withdrawal of Malmo's Polish striker, Dolan deftly deleted him from his deliberations and adapted a new formula which his central defenders adhered to capably. The squad to a man have remarked upon the thoroughness of the three-hour team meeting which Dolan held with his players on Thursday night.
Equally, the club's departure for Sweden tomorrow signifies that Dolan had earmarked this as a tie his side could win, though understandably he continues to play down his side's chances.
"In days gone by," admits City defender Greg O'Halloran, "if a player saw he was heading out for a European match a few days early, he'd be thinking to himself, 'Great, an extra few days for a ****-up!' Instead, this shows that we believe we can win."
City chairman Brian Lennox has invested heavily in backing his manager's faith. The expected €200,000 prize for reaching the next round is the merest salve to the hole burned in Lennox's pocket. The significance of the statement which would be made by City taking such an admired scalp is priceless.
Dolan's preparedness will be little different from that of the Eircom League's other full-time managerial representatives in European competition this season, Stephen Kenny at Bohemians or Pat Fenlon at Shelbourne, as they await Friday's UEFA Cup and Champions League draws. (Alan Matthews, in his defence, is not a full-time manager; hence his task is justifiably more taxing).
It's been said too often before but one hopes that last Saturday night may kickstart something a tad more meaningful than another hackneyed footnote in a history of European involvement for Eircom League clubs which has been littered with a trail of false prophecies.
Recent improvements in European competition has been of a staccato nature. For every encouraging step forward, it seems, two are taken in reverse. Sure, the list of teams which will stand between Shelbourne and a second qualifying round berth in the Champions League are hardly frightening.
Yet it is the next step which proves elusive, an obstacle which, this year at least, might see either Manchester United and Real Madrid provide the opposition. Yet this mouthwatering prospect may, on recent evidence anyway, remain elusive.
Shelbourne's task in the second round this summer will be difficult to broach, a direct legacy of the same club's failure to dispose of Maltese club Hibernians two summer ago; the latter's own weekend win in the InterToto Cup against Croatian opposition indicates that the standards are increasing all the time throughout Europe.
Whatever the outcome of City's European odyssey, their results will not have an effect on Ireland's ranking in Europe, as was the case when Dolan led St Pat's to the brink of the InterToto Cup third round two seasons ago, when only an away goal denied them on that occasion.
Ironically, an away goal may prove to be the biggest obstacle to his new side progressing this weekend although Eircom League fans will genuinely hope otherwise.
Kerr's Ireland may have been absent from the biggest football party of the summer. Hopefully, City's opening salvo under Dolan may provide more cheer on a smaller, though no less significant scale.
David Kelly
Bootroom
I keep hearing this figure of 200,000 come out of the indo for Cork if they progress????
I was under the impression that 200,000 was for the winners of the Intertoto?
Surely UEFA dont give out 200,000 to 1st round intertoto teams?
200k sounds dubious alright. In my experience seems to be really difficult to get any sort of info on the Inter Toto on the web.
Malmo Team from saturday
3 Olof Persson (started last 2 league games)
4 Daniel Majstorovic (started last 2 league games)
5 Thomas Olsson (started 1 of last 2 league games)
6 Hasse Mattisson (started 1 of last 2 league games)
7 Joseph Elanga (1 bench 1 start in last 2 league games)
8 Afonso Alves (started last 2 league games)
9 Niklas Skoog (started last 2 league games)
16 Joel Ringström (bench last 2 league games)
19 Glenn Holgersson (1 bench 1 start in last 2 league games)
22 Tobias Grahn (started 1 of last 2 league games)
25 Behrang Safari (1 bench in last 2 league games)
Avbytare:
10 Louay Chanko (1 bench in last 2 league games)
15 Samuel Barlay
20 Johan Nilsson Guiomar
24 Thommie Persson (started 1 of last 2 league games)
26 Darko Lukanovic (bench last 2 league games)
33 Joakim Moberg
No bench or start for others.
i dont normally do this but its a once in 4 seasons thing so if you want to see the goals from this match over, and over, again, :D its available for download from citynet
orry about the apparant spam but it'll stay in this thread as it think its a great opportunity for foot.ie users who havent seen the goals or just want a reminder of probably our finest night in europe (cwmbran town? or bayern? feck it we could have had 4 against the 'famous' malmo)