QuoteIf they lose at home to a jammy goal without scoring themselves that is scandalous
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If they lose at home to a jammy goal without scoring themselves that is scandalous
Tbf to Rovers Flora were clearly underestimated on here (and in the bookies as has been touched upon) they are a decent side, a bit better than Rovers or any other LOI side imo regardless of the lack of depth in their domestic league.
They won’t be pushovers in their ECL group either, they know what they are at.
Comprehensively outplayed for 180 minutes by a team from one of the worst ranked countries in all of Europe. Rovers, favorites to be head and shoulders above all the other teams in our League by season's end.
Jaysus imagine how bad bohs dundalk and the rest of the league must be if rovers are this bad. Top of the league !!
Rovers had a decent 30 minutes at the start, spells of pressure and created a couple of half-chances, but when they didn't score in that spell, it was all over after that.
Originally Posted by DCWA
I don't necessarily agree with that. Flora aren't great. How many of their goals were gifts from Rovers? Today's is the obvious one, but in Tallinn Rovers were passing straight to them, were falling over in the box, weren't tracking back at all.
The Estonian league - average crowd 400 - is 53rd in UEFA for a reason. I didn't see anything from Flora in either leg to indicate that were anything other than a standardly-competent pro side.
This was a very winnable tie and to lose home and away is as bad a result as the LoI has had in Europe in a while.
One word for it: Embarrassing.
Deflect all you like, ****ed live on the telly twice by a tuppence hapeny team from the Baltic.5-2 ffs.
You can harp on about the league and about it being a winnable tie all you want but if it was winnable beforehand it doesn’t look it now.
I think Flora can feel they won that pretty handily all in.
Which is precisely why it's concerning that Rovers were so easily brushed aside. Our League winners last year, and this year most likely, are actually not good enough for Europe, at the lowest entry point, with a favourable set of draws.
That was really poor from Shamrock R. well off for what is required to make progress at this European level.
Fair play to them. Well organized outfit. 10 clean sheets in 17 in their league so you knew they'd be able to limit any side in terms of chances. We had enough to get the 3 goals we needed but when we didn't score while we had that spell of cutting them open in the first half, I figured they'd get to halftime and shut up shop. Easy for them from there really even if they didn't threaten much. They didn't have to of course. The goal obviously kills us and it's further evidence that Mannus has gone down a level. Still a great shot stopper and organizer but his concentration is slipping. One of a few faces that will need to change for any run in Europe next season. Champions Path or no.
What's frustrating is that we played like we played in the early stages of the league, particularly in the first leg. Silly errors, a lack of midfield cover and nothing happening up front. It was never going to be good enough in Europe and to be honest, I'd been dreading the games. We'd started to click leading into them though so it's poor to regress. If we don't get back to where we were in the 4-5 games leading up to Europe, the league is wide open and the cup....well....Sunday should be fun.
Til next year then.
I can only hope Shamrock Rovers are as crap next Friday night as they were tonight. That was woeful.
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Bradley as he has since he took over will learn from this and we’ll be the better for it next time … Europe really exposed how much we need a fit wide player (Farrugia) as we were just too ponderous for this this level …. we move on so now bring on Sunday
Pretty poor year for the league in Europe
Rovers only won one tie and that was against an Albanian side
Sligo, pathetic.
Dundalk beat Levadia as expected then lost to Vitnese as expected
Bohs beating the Icelandic team wasn’t a surprise, knocking Duderlange out was probably the only tie won by one of the teams that would be considered a decent win.
As a fan of our feeder club I appreciate u need to enjoy these moments, maybe next year you might make the telly, if u qualify.
Rovers didn't co themselves justice but we will settle for winning the league and go again next year
Yet, it was one of our best ever years in terms of co-efficient..
https://kesslereffect.bandcamp.com/album/kepler - New music. It's not that bad.
Viva La Conference League
Yeah, I agree.
Like, the argument about "Has the LoI improved" has to resurface now that another season is over, and I still don't think it has
Bohs v PAOK and Dundalk v Vitesse were more than respectable. Ok, three of the four ties could have ended 4-0 by the sounds of it - but they didn't. So there's shoots there.
Our coefficient this year is a record too. But really, we scored highly in part because we had the easiest set of draws the LoI has ever had in Europe - Wales, Luxembourg (a decent win, albeit overshadowed by a query over the side's finances) Iceland twice, Albania. And the same happened last year with Dundalk. The new format means coefficients are going to be higher. It doesn't mean we're improving.
Two of our sides were knocked out by countries ranked in the 50s - that's never happened before. Our respectable results were against sides 3-4 weeks away from the start of their season.
And this is all despite changing season specifically for European progress, and postponing games to give clubs an extra boost (which few other leagues do)
Excuses that Flora were underrated are really a bit minnowist for my liking. I think there's a lot to consider with this year's results
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