Sturm getting a pasting from Larnaca
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Sturm getting a pasting from Larnaca
90th minute equaliser sends Ufa through. They're lucky to be in Europe - only there as the Cup winners went bust.
Finished 7-0 on agg to Larnaca. Dundalk would have fancied their chances against Sturm.
Sturm were down to ten men for the last half hour, and conceded four goals in that time.
Looks like they just gave up in the heat and rolled over. Still an impressive scoreline, home and away.
On the Luxembourg teams, 2012/13 was when Dudelange beat Red Bull (and hammered Tre Penne 11-0) Their other three teams only beat Faroese opposition between them.
In 2014/15, their four teams didn't win a tie between them (including losing to Dundalk). In 2015/16, they only knocked out Bala Town in the 93rd minute (and lost to UCD and Rovers). In 2016/17, they again lost all their ties (including to St Pats)
They've had two good years as well - 2013/14 (beat Finnish, Albanian and Dutch opposition, and took Tromso to penalties) and 2017/18 (they beat Moldovan and Azeri opposition, as well as Rangers)
So it looks a bit like the LoI really, with a random mix of decent years and crap years. Hard to know if anything really kicked it off.
In tonight's games, HJK got hammered 4-1 at home, but Kukesi are 1-0 up going into the second half, which means Ireland will drop a place in the rankings if Cork don't at least draw.
And elsewhere, Dudelange go 1-0 up on Legia!
Dudelange 2-0 Legia!
4-1 on aggregate now. That's amazing stuff. Still got half the team that lost to UCD, including Stelvio, who scored the second.
Dean Ebbe with another for TNS, the equaliser away to Midtylland; his fourth of the campaign. They're 2-1 down now; 4-1 on aggregate
I don't know what to make this this. Legia looked very poor against Cork, a shadow of the side Dundalk played.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
But still. Can Dudelange have improved that much?
Zenit 2-0 up on Minsk now; 4-3 down on aggregate and just one goal away from a great turnaround. Still 25 to go.
I think they took us for granted. They had a new manager and had just finished third in the league, so it was a good time to catch them.Quote:
Originally Posted by White Horse
Also, Legia are a mess right now. They've wasted their Champions League money in a way which would make an LoI team envious.
But Sometimes stuff just happens, and it makes it hard to compare individual results. I think that's what makes football so great. Other sports (rugby in particular, but it's far from the only one) are far more predictable, and a result like this would simply never happen.
Zenit need 2 just to force ET. They lost the 1st leg 4 nil.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Sorry; thought it was 4-1 for some reason.
They're down to ten men now, so that looks over.
Spoke to soon! 3-0 Zenit.
And Legia get a goal back.
They are 3 nil up now so all not lost.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
The 10 men got a goal! 3-0 now with 15 mins remaining. Crazy tie, that.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Any recommendations for a decent steam for City Rosenborg ?
I presume RTÉ RealPlayer no good to you?
It's on RTÉ2
4-0 Zenit now!
Incredible stuff.
Qualifying rounds of Europe really is one of the greatest events in the football calendar.
Make that 4 nilQuote:
Originally Posted by ger121
Molde 3-0 Hibs with ten to go. So no European football for Daryl Horgan this season (who I presume signed too late to be registered for the competition)
Erling Haaland with two. Son of Alf Inge; played against UCD in the Youth League last year.
No cant get it here.
Rte player working in Berlin. Happy days!
Extra time in St Petersburg. Artem Dzyuba with the last two goals for them - same guy who scored three goals at the World Cup for Russia.
And on a similar note, Andrey Arshavin still playing; started for Kairat Almaty as they went out to Sigma Olomouc earlier today.
Solid start for Cork here, but they did the same last week.
I wouldn’t say that. Means you now actually have to watch Cork play:pQuote:
Originally Posted by Philosophizer
Poor wayward shot from McCormack. Decent start from Cork, but inevitably there will be an easily avoided goal conceded at some point.
Well that was predictably ****e.
McNulty is a liability to Cork. Embarrassing stuff again.
I doff my cap.Quote:
Originally Posted by CorribsideSteve
More brutal goalkeeping. Shocking decision to punch a very catchable ball. If you're going to punch, you have to make sure you get a good connection on it.
And there we go. Mind you, you didn't have to be mystic meg to call it. McNulty should have caught that. Very poor.Quote:
Originally Posted by CorribsideSteve
And there it is. A woeful no brained hoof of the ball down the field, pumped back in, McNulty does a David James. A familiar pattern.
Feck sake McNulty why didn’t he catch a simple cross
Absoltely. But Cork had gone into full blown Trappatoni style long balls to nobody, and one of them has ended up costing them. McNulty must take a large but not total portion of the blame.Quote:
Originally Posted by White Horse
How many assists has he got now in Europe? At least 3.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guitd
And no doubt caufield will be out saying the usual instead of actually saying we're just as good as these and should be looking to beat them but being let down by individual mistakes or an individuals mistake
Oh dear. This could get embarrassing.
This will end brutally
In other Cork news actually, Kevin Long starts for Burnley against Istanbul Basaksehir. 0-0 on aggregate half an hour in. Ward and Hendrick also start
Zenit 5-1 Dinamo Minsk is the latest after 110 minutes; 5-5 on aggregate with Minsk hanging on on away goals now. But Zenit must be tiring after 45 minutes with ten men.
4 European games and no goals. Caulfield reminds me of Fenlon in Europe.
6-1. I’ve never seen anything like itQuote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
6-1 Zenit! That game gets better and better.
Five to go for Minsk to rescue it.
Rosenborg v Cork is pure men against boys stuff unfortunately.
John Caulfield must be considering Plan B.
The problem is,it’s the same plan as A.Quote:
Originally Posted by White Horse