League of Ireland in Europe 2016

**oriel** · 18/08/2016, 8:24 PM

Not sure if it was mentioned already by any Dundalk fan, (too lazy to tab back and read!) but just a word of thanks to all other LOI supporters who made the effort to attend the match.

What a pity we couldn't have scored one to give everyone a lift. However it was still a great occasion, a fairly decent display but a disappointing result.

I'd be still positive looking ahead to the EL group, its another chance to try and get some good results. It will depend on the draw of course, so who knows.

**outspoken** · 18/08/2016, 9:01 PM

Can we please have a team qualify for this stage every season? Great going into slats before the game and seeing LOI jerseys all over the place.

**ToberonaTornado** · 18/08/2016, 9:04 PM

Originally Posted by ShelsTim

Is Windsor really that bad? Surely it's good enough for European Qualifiers, it would be Cat 4, no?

Was a tounge in cheek remark from the Dundalk co-owner himself a Belfast native.Windsor is a semi building site atm is it not?

**EatYerGreens** · 18/08/2016, 9:52 PM

I fancy Dundalk to get something from the away game tbh.

In a funny way, leaking two away goals may help them as Legia will probably feel it's mostly job done now.

So if Dundalk defend well, I wouldn't be surprised at a 0:0 draw. All good for Dundalk and the League's coefficient.

**legendz** · 18/08/2016, 10:05 PM

Originally Posted by EatYerGreens

I fancy Dundalk to get something from the away game tbh.

In a funny way, leaking two away goals may help them as Legia will probably feel it's mostly job done now.

So if Dundalk defend well, I wouldn't be surprised at a 0:0 draw. All good for Dundalk and the League's coefficient.

1-0 or 2-1 down they'd have a chance. Did Drogheda lose 2-1 at home to Dynamo Kiev, go 2-0 down in the second leg, score 2 goals and miss a chance at the end to go through?

Bohs won away to Kaiserlautern if memory serves me right. They had played some decent stuff in the first leg but lost 3-0.

Yesterday's game was cagey enough. The second leg might open up more. It's not over. If Legia are expecting it easy and Dundalk find themselves 2-1 up with 10 minutes to go, you never know!

**oriel** · 18/08/2016, 10:38 PM

Dundalk lost 2-0 at home to Hajduk Split in 2014 & won 2-1 away. Another goal would have seen us through and from reports it was close as HS were 1-0 and on the ropes.

However I don't recall reading anything at the time about how we almost snatched it, to be fair Drogs came very close that time away to Kiev, they should have gone through.

The fact remains that no Irish club has ever advanced after a two goal deficit from the first leg. As per tweet today from Karl Reilly.

**MeathDrog** · 18/08/2016, 10:46 PM

Originally Posted by legendz

1-0 or 2-1 down they'd have a chance. Did Drogheda lose 2-1 at home to Dynamo Kiev, go 2-0 down in the second leg, score 2 goals and miss a chance at the end to go through?

Bohs won away to Kaiserlautern if memory serves me right. They had played some decent stuff in the first leg but lost 3-0.

Yesterday's game was cagey enough. The second leg might open up more. It's not over. If Legia are expecting it easy and Dundalk find themselves 2-1 up with 10 minutes to go, you never know!

Drogheda went 1-0 up with a peno afaik. Gartland equalised for 2-2 and then Adam Hughes missed an absolute sitter.

I try not to remember much about that game..

**Philosophizer** · 18/08/2016, 10:48 PM

Originally Posted by legendz

Did Drogheda lose 2-1 at home to Dynamo Kiev, go 2-0 down in the second leg, score 2 goals and miss a chance at the end to go through?

Correction, they missed 2 glorious chances at the end to go through. In the last 5 mins one lad blazed over from 6 yards with no keeper, and then another shot was fumbled onto the post by the keeper, which then dribbled across the goal and eventually to safety.

Hightlights here from RTE news - https://youtu.be/bgIj_bUJmKk

**seand** · 19/08/2016, 8:10 AM

Even if it wasn't a really terrible idea to go to Windsor (and it is) wherever possible UEFA insist on a CL/EL match being played in the club's own jurisdiction.

**Nah Nah Nah Nah** · 19/08/2016, 8:13 AM

Originally Posted by ShelsTim

Is Windsor really that bad? Surely it's good enough for European Qualifiers, it would be Cat 4, no?

I've gone to some unbelievable kips on Ireland away games. Think it's a case that if you don't have a ground up to a certain standard anywhere in the country you can play in the best dump available.

**Dalymountrower** · 19/08/2016, 9:02 AM

Originally Posted by legendz

1-0 or 2-1 down they'd have a chance. Did Drogheda lose 2-1 at home to Dynamo Kiev, go 2-0 down in the second leg, score 2 goals and miss a chance at the end to go through?

Bohs won away to Kaiserlautern if memory serves me right. They had played some decent stuff in the first leg but lost 3-0.

Yesterday's game was cagey enough. The second leg might open up more. It's not over. If Legia are expecting it easy and Dundalk find themselves 2-1 up with 10 minutes to go, you never know!

Bohs Lost 3-1 at home to Kaiserslautern and won 1-0 away plus a perfectly good goal by Crowe disallowed.
Legia are no great shakes, better at playing the ref and physically stronger than Dundalk, less prone to mistakes and not having an honest but sub standard player like Boyle anchoring the defence , swung it for Legia in Lansdowne.
Interesting that their fans were permitted to hoist a political banner for most of the match without interference from the stewards. Safe to say that we now know that John Delaney is not a Bolshevik.

**pineapple stu** · 19/08/2016, 9:11 AM

And a hefty fine on the way to the FAI for all those flares, I'm sure.

**GCdfc** · 19/08/2016, 9:12 AM

Will it be to the FAI or Dundalk?

**OwlsFan** · 19/08/2016, 9:32 AM

Article on the BBC website http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/37091532

**pineapple stu** · 19/08/2016, 9:34 AM

Originally Posted by GCdfc

Will it be to the FAI or Dundalk?

Worst case, the FAI can shnake it into the cost of hiring the ground.

**geysir** · 19/08/2016, 11:42 AM

Originally Posted by GCdfc

Will it be to the FAI or Dundalk?

Isn't it Uefa practice to charge the club of the troublesome fans?
If the flares were only from the LW fans, then at most the only charge facing Dundalk will be for insufficient organization; lack of body search and that should not be such a serious charge for first timers. After all, Dundalk are lighting up their cigars with €50notes.

**ToberonaTornado** · 19/08/2016, 11:49 AM

Originally Posted by geysir

Isn't it Uefa practice to charge the club of the troublesome fans?
If the flares were only from the LW fans, then at most the only charge facing Dundalk will be for insufficient organization; lack of body search and that should not be such a serious charge for first timers. After all, Dundalk are lighting up their cigars with €50notes.

Huh! stg£50 Northern Bank notes mate

**geysir** · 19/08/2016, 12:03 PM

Originally Posted by seand

Even if it wasn't a really terrible idea to go to Windsor (and it is) wherever possible UEFA insist on a CL/EL match being played in the club's own jurisdiction.

And there are other factors, Dublin is by far a more practical location for fans than Belfast, not just for neutrals but also Dundalk fans in exile. Then there is the prestige for the League to have a team in the group stages and garner maximum publicity for these upcoming games, hosted in the capital city of the league's territory, not hidden away out of the limelight in the backwaters of Belfast.