Eir's listings on Sky have MLS and other stuff down for the Thursday. Hopefully that's just because they haven't got round to updating their schedule yet, but they should get a wriggle on with it!Originally Posted by PartySaint
https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2019...e-of-the-post/
I can still remember the miss, from robinson I think, it was harder to miss but somehow he skyed it over the crossbar!
Edit:Hmm i thought i remembered one going off the crossbar when the goal was open
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Prepare yourself lads for a months worth of supportive "but they're crap really when you think about it" posts from pauloshea....
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Welcome Kingdom for your sole contribution. Did you watch the game in question or just come on to add some more nonsense? Besides a months a long time in European Football :P
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Dundalk, Rovers and Cork all to go through.
Pats to go out.
Here on a technicality.
Id say be our tie will be similar to our games v Odense a few years back. I think we can be competitive in the home leg but fear a hiding in the away game.
I don't want to say "I rest my case", but....
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Hughes put it over the bar with the goal open, Robinson's shot hit the post and went across the face of the goal.
Interesting results tonight were lower seeds outperforming seeded teams.
AIK were the lowest seeded team but the Armenian team were also ranked very low. AIK have an away goal so i suppose still all to play for.
While the Macedonian team was seeded, the away win v Estonian opposition will stand to them and should also be a good example of what Irish teams should be aiming for. (edit: apparently Macedonia as a whole is ranked higher than Ireland so :s )
Great comeback from the Maltese against Lux opposition should give hope to Cork.
Red Star Belgrade were held 0-0 away from home but against Lithuanian opposition.
The kosovo teams are still unknown and clearly building their coefficients well but a 2-2 away from home against Welsh powerhouse TNS (both goals in the dying minutes) was also interesting.
Dundalk should be aiming to win tonight
but also the other teams should be taking heart from the ability of other teams with less of a footballing tradition to do well at this stage.
Important year for the LoI as we've already dropped a place by losing 2014/15, and could drop more places this year.
Luxembourg would have gone ahead of us had Dudelange held on against Valletta. Their manager just jumped ship to the Belgian second tier, taking half their team with them, so I can't see them repeating last year's heroics.
TNS will be kicking themselves for throwing that lead, but Kosovan teams appear half-decent. That said, they're out of the bottom 4 now, which means no more easy points from the pre-qualifying, so while it looks like they'll storm past us, their rise should slow down now. Ditto Gibraltar actually.
Luxembourg, Bosnia, Finland, Malta, Latvia and Armenia are all within touching distance (less than 0.500) of us, Finland and Armenia by virtue of winning their first legs tonight.
After next year, we lose Dundalk's group stage, and if we haven't replaced it with something similar, we could actually be in real danger of dropping down to the Europa League pre-qualifying.
It's a nerve wrecking spell between now and tomorrow night. I really dont like the unknowns about this Riga side. I think they will be a right handful and it could be a difficult night for us. The ramifications for the club and then the league ranking could be significant. Of course we could bring our A game and cruise the game tomorrow and finish the tie.....just no soft goals just before HT after doing the hard work and no defensive gaffes!! As is always the case we cant be missing sitters expecting a load of chances, we need to make opportunities count. When you consider the headed sitter miss v Rosenborg and Kilduffs sitter off the top of the bar, hitting the post twice in St Petersburg 2016 and Sava's error against the same in Tallaght. 4-5 proper chances to progress further in those years including last 32 of EL. There is all the talk of Drogheda v Kiev etc. Chances just have to be made count and I'm not sure we are firing on all cylinders to do that.
Your captain is always good for a gaffe in European football!
This Riga team are definitely no mugs, ridiculous amount of internationalists too in their squad, they’ll be well pleased to have drawn us. From our side, this is of course one of the better draws, avoiding the Polish team was key, and a few more, but make no mistake Riga should not be taken lightly, and this could be a lot tighter than some are making out.
Any win will do tonight, and a clean sheet please.
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I think Dundalk and Cork will sneek through. Pats and Rovers will go out. Hope i'm wrong on the last 2 though.
Best of luck to all clubs in their European ties and to the Irish Universities Women's team in their semi-final this afternoon. You're only Jong unce!
I'm really looking forward to catching the Euro games, as always, but I've a gut feeling we're going to do well. It's hard to see Pats turn it on, but I've a snakey feeling Cork will do well.
Dundalk will qualify.
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Dundalk to win.
We are in a 50/50 tie - need a positive result tomorrow night.
A repeat of last years performance might be good enough for Rovers but up against it also.
Pats have no chance.
It's conceivable that all four teams will fall at the first fence, but I suspect that two from Dundalk, Rovers and Cork have a realistic chance of progressing
Dundalk may be marginal favourites to go through, but it is very obvious from listening to Vinny Perth and others within the squad that they fully realise that Riga (with their 12 internationals) represent a big challenge
I don't think it's unreasonable to suggest that all four Irish sides will be put out in their first round.
Weighing it up, I think Dundalk are the only ones with a chance of progression.
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Which one? Garts away to St Petersburg wasnt Captain that time, Boyle's handball peno was harsh in the play-off round.
Sava's sliced clearance is the standout one in a close fixture. Ganno concussed in Rosenborg but still should have gone through on away goals when Kilduff clipped the bar from 8 yards - if he'd scuffed it it would would have gone in - small margins!
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