Is the Rovers game on TV anywhere?
https://kesslereffect.bandcamp.com/album/kepler - New music. It's not that bad.
Is the Rovers game on TV anywhere?
Last edited by sbgawa; 29/07/2019 at 4:07 PM.
Had a look at Qarabag's ground there. 3 sided. Capacity of around 6,000. Will be like a Tallaght away from home (away from home) for Dundalk! Unless it's being played in the Tofiq Bahramarov, which seems unlikely.
Last edited by CorribsideSteve; 29/07/2019 at 6:17 PM.
It will be play in the Dalga Arena - it appears to be 4 sided.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddcsVPHoZ94
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalga_Arena
In a spirit of detente I proposed the following alternative eleven, naturally dominated by Rovers players over the last 3 years. A couple of token dual Rovers / Dundalk players are included
Tomer Chencinski
Ethan Boyle | Roberto Lopes | Ally Gilchrist | Luke Byrne
Darren Meenan | David McAllister | Ryan Connolly | Darren Clarke
Michael O'Connor | Gary Shaw
Cheers. I had assumed it would be played at the three sided Azersun. Seems as though they have a choice over a few Stadiums in the city of Baku. Early start vital for Dundalk. Not absolutely necessary, but the earlier to get at these guys and let them know it won't be easy would be lovely to see.
Last edited by CorribsideSteve; 29/07/2019 at 7:12 PM.
33 deg Wednesday, nice
Would agree with all of that. As Michael O'Neill was fond of saying, it's a 14 man game and Dundalk have the stronger 14. For the first time in this era of Dundalk dominance I think the two strongest 11s are close enough with the obvious difference being up front and that's cost us plenty of points.
As you say, a few shrewd signings could swing things. If we signed 2/3 of the type and calibre of Gannon, Duffy and Hoban we might catch you but until then I think you'll dig out games even when you don't play well while we drop points when our game plan doesn't work and we have no bench to turn to. It's a bit better now with O'Neill and Farrugia to come in but it's not a patch on the depth of Dundalk's. Frightening to think you might be adding Elbouzedi and it sounds like Bolger won't be with us next season.
Very worried about the game this week if Joey O'Brien doesn't recover from the knock he picked up in Cork. We ended up with Ethan Boyle playing at left back in that game as well.....proof right there of the different squad's relative depth. You brought in new faces and beat Pat's, we played close to our best available 11 and drew with Cork.
It will 'drop' to 25c at kick off at 9pm local time, will be dark then also, still hot though, but Dundalk trained twice in Spain this season, that should help.
Interesting to note that a 4th sub was allowed in Riga for the ET period, this must be a new rule for european games in ET.
#DundalkFC - First Irish club to win an away game in Europe (1963), first Irish club to win points in a group stage in Europe (2016).
https://kesslereffect.bandcamp.com/album/kepler - New music. It's not that bad.
https://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/soc...-baku-18796822Vinny Perth believes his Dundalk players will cope with conditions in Baku - having acclimatised in Spain.
Temperatures in Azerbaijan are in the mid 30s by day and will drop into the 20s by kick-off tomorrow.
But Perth reckons the team’s warm weather training camp in Spain during the mini summer break will stand to them.
In all honestly, Dundalk are going to it very tough tomorrow evening, it they can hold out to half time cause they going to really be up against it, then it might get interesting. Think they will lose 2-0 tomorrow night.
€5.99 for the live stream.
https://shamrockrovers.ie/livestream...LPD9NBX4vJyygE
I don't think you'll find anyone who will disagree with this ! Toughest match since away to Zenit, and polar opposities too in the conditions, quite literally, it was well below zero that night at kick off.
I think Dundalk will score, hopefully it will be at a key time of the game, keepinf them scoreless for as long as possible, and for more than 4 mins this time would be nice !
#DundalkFC - First Irish club to win an away game in Europe (1963), first Irish club to win points in a group stage in Europe (2016).
APOEL and Slovan easily winning this evening, and they'll play Dundalk if they win/lose tomorrow respectively
I think the heat is gonna be a massive factor for both games. Going to be seriously tough. Forecast to be 29C at 8pm in both Limasol and Baku.
Its incredibly hard to play a match in anything over 20C...
"They are a very strong team. I think they have a higher ranking that AC Milan in Europe so that just shows you what kind of class they are".
https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2019/0730/1066102-mcgrath-confident-dundalk-can-cope-with-qarabag/
weighing in on the debate. Qarabag > AC Milan
Also Tel-Aviv (16.00) have been knocked out by much lower unseeded Cluj from Romania (3.5); who in the previous round were also unseeded against the Kazakhstan team, Astana, who seeded at 27.5 are also higher than Qarabag (22.0)...
Last edited by sparky12345678; 30/07/2019 at 7:07 PM.
Couldn't resist checking that!
Level with them in the coefficient club rankings, though only because Milan have only been in Europe twice in the past five years. Mad drop off from being in the knock out stages of the Champions League six years ago.
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