Please. Pats have more than enough quality to be getting past any Lux side.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack B
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Please. Pats have more than enough quality to be getting past any Lux side.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack B
Ive not seen much of Pats but they looked badly organised,with some decent attacking play and some poor defenders,Jamie Lennon has an awful lot of work to do on his own and didnt get much help,Mulreany has some real flashes but seems like a bit of a luxury player,some really excellent young players though in Curtis,Carty and Murphy......
We've conceded the third highest amount of goals in the league. Doesn't matter how much quality going the other way when we're so easy to get at.Quote:
Originally Posted by Philosophizer
Against Dundalk and An Other under Clancy. Different since and ye dont get within touching distance of top spot leaking goals. Bt of deflectionn there!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack B
Glens 10-10 in their shoot-out. Every kick scored so far
Edit - the keepers score too. Has there ever been a shootout where all 22 players scored?
Aaron McCarey scored for Glentoran - ex Dundalk keeper
Not really? I'm a supporter of the club literally saying that we aren't particularly good hahaha, not sure what you lot want from me here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nesta99
Unbelievable 24th spot kick. Keeper saved it, ran away to celebrate but forgot the ball which ended on the back of the net.
13 each now.
The 28th penalty is missed; Glens go out 14-13
Incredible stuff
And that's not the half of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Glens missed a penalty out there to draw 2-2, after being the better team in the Maltese heat. Back at The Oval, they missed another penalty after 5 mins. Went 1-0 down in the second half, then had a goal disallowed. Hit the woodwork twice. Ref awards 8 mins of injury time (Maltese timewasting) and Glens had another goal disallowed half way through it. Maltese kept time-wasting, and Glens evenualy got the equaliser after 12 added-on minutes! Extra time couldn't split them, then we see 27 consecutive penalty conversions, before a Glens 17 y.o. misses the 28th. (He'd converted his first effort)
"Luck of the Irish"? "Rub of the Green (Red and Black)"? "Better team went through"?
Fcuk off all three! :mad:
Pats had Dudelange rattled at 2-1 and should have more of the pressure to get a vital third. Their second goal was an absolute gift, so sloppy at the back from Norman who was very poor over the two legs, as was Brockbank. Third goal was your typical pick off on the break goal while pats were throwing men forward for the late goal they needed to force extra time. I think if Joe Redmond had've been available for even one of the two legs we could’ve scraped through but overall in the two legs Dudelange defo deserved to go through when you look at the chances they missed. Onwards and upwards to domestic duties now to have another crack at it next year.
Dundalk made extremely heavy lifting of that tonight. Probably won't get much further but in saying that the Icelandic side they've got have feck all European pedigree so who knows. For a European game though the standard tonight was woeful
Brilliant. Absolutely bonkers stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
@EalingGreen I haven’t seen a game in the Oval since pats played there in 2013, is that fans standing on the terrace behind the goal there? Or have seats been added behind that goal? And if not then how did the club manage to get away with using a terrace in a European game?
Quick coefficient update - we remain in 32nd, but Armenia, Latvia and even the North are in touching distance and have all four teams left.
Looking unlikely we'll make the group stages and that'll impact things too. Bonus point just for qualifying and double points for any results. You'd imagine we'll drop a couple of places yet unless we can muster much improved performances and results in the next round
(Also, looking back for my earlier coefficient post, I saw one from another poster noting Akureyri had just knocked Breidablik out of the Icelandic Cup... That's a bit more impressive all of a sudden)
We’ve missed Joe Redmond big time, and also Tom Grivosti. I think it’s fair to say we’d be a different team with those two in it. We were very poor defensively tonight, no question. A little better in the second half, but then Norman plays an awful ball into midfield, when we’d managed to get ourselves into the game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack B
The own goal though, absolutely hilarious.
I didn't think terracing was allowed either, nor are there seats behind the goal.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2 Year Contract
Maybe someone opened a gate and fans made their way round from the stand?
Don't get it.
Ah ok that makes sense, cheers! I’d imagine the club will be hit with a fairly hefty fine for it regardless so. UEFA are notoriously strict with the enforcement of their rulesQuote:
Originally Posted by EalingGreen
"All four"?Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Are you winding me up?
Well I'm guessing, since I can't think of any other explanation, so a fine would rub salt in the wound.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2 Year Contract
Unless we claim we had a couple of hundred ball boys, stewards and, er, litter pickers on duty?
EDIT: Perhaps terrace standing was allowed tonight? I'd forgotten that standing was allowed on a trial basis in CL, EL and ECL games during season 2022/23 in England, Germany & France (though not in Spain and Italy, since none of their qualifying teams had "adequate" standing sections):
https://www.dw.com/en/europe-wants-t...ons/a-62618330
Perhaps this was extended in some cases, with The Oval terraces being big enough, and with suitable crush barriers, to permit, say 10% capacity occupancy?
(I'm clutching at straws here, mind)
SECOND EDIT: Back in 2014, Linfield were fined €15k after a Europa League tie at Windsor for "... Linfield supporters watching the game from a standing position behind the goal, an action specifically prohibited by Uefa."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/29005409
So it seems a rank bad evening just got even worse... :rolleyes:
Hard Luck. Really thought it might be your night after that late late equaliser.Quote:
Originally Posted by EalingGreen
Why do you think the Northern clubs are doing so well in Europe this season?