LoI in Europe 2018

**Philosophizer** · 19/07/2018, 4:55 PM

Fair play Derry. A nice surprise. Similar to when Dundalk went out to Hadjuk Split and beat them 2-1 in the 2nd leg a few years back, after losing the home leg 2-0. I was at Oriel for that home leg and Split had looked very impressive so I naturally assumed Dundalk would get nothing from the 2nd leg.

**SwanVsDalton** · 19/07/2018, 5:00 PM

Dinamo Minsk were clearly quite surprised to face an actual football team after we just didn't bother turning up for the first leg.

Still, the kind of performance that could turn our season after how awful we've been in the last while. The new signings look pretty handy.

**Straightstory** · 19/07/2018, 5:00 PM

Great stuff from Derry. Bit of pride restored after last year's thumping in Europe.

**Real ale Madrid** · 19/07/2018, 5:02 PM

Originally Posted by micls

Derry don't get any club coefficient points for the win, but they do win the league a point, to help keep us sliding towards the preliminary rounds.

Don't think there is any danger of that. We were only dropping 0.2500 this year - we have 0.5000 tacked on already this season. Hopefully another win for Dundalk tonight and maybe just maybe there may be more to come. Next season we will lose 2.000 pts so more of a challenge.

**paul_oshea** · 19/07/2018, 5:04 PM

A big missed opportunity . Derry were equal and better throughout the pitch today. Another case of too much respect, negwtiviry

**paul_oshea** · 19/07/2018, 5:05 PM

A big missed opportunity . Derry were equal and better throughout the pitch today. Another case of too much respect, negativity and bad tactics that sees them out.

Fair play on the result today though they played some good stuff.

**ger121** · 19/07/2018, 5:11 PM

Originally Posted by Real ale Madrid

Don't think there is any danger of that. We were only dropping 0.2500 this year - we have 0.5000 tacked on already this season. Hopefully another win for Dundalk tonight and maybe just maybe there may be more to come. Next season we will lose 2.000 pts so more of a challenge.

Well we’ll lose 2.250 over the next 2 seasons. So the more we gain this season over 0.250, will eat into the 2.000 target next year.

**paul_oshea** · 19/07/2018, 5:11 PM

Originally Posted by Philosophizer

These days I think it's more a case of mental exhaustion and lapses of concentration as opposed to any physical shortfall. Physically our teams should be as good as the european sides, and by and large they are. But in our domestic league guys probably learn bad habits and mentally get lazy because they're not severely punished whenever they switch off. Whereas in europe you usually cough up a goal-scoring opportunity for any slight lapse in concentration.

That's another thing that made Dundalk's run so impressive 2 tears ago. They really looked (and played) like they belonged.

Thats the point about european experience though, playing at the level you should know and be aware of that possibility. So the ball you might leave you do your utmost to get a touch on it.