QuoteIt's hard to watch this and see Rovers keeping a clean sheet in the return leg. So 3 needed at least in that case.
Sure that was obvious out in Cyprus 4 years ago
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It's hard to watch this and see Rovers keeping a clean sheet in the return leg. So 3 needed at least in that case.
Shambolic stuff. The defenders have been poor but all the Rovers players have been awful when Flora attack.
A real, helpless, hapless performance defensively akin to what you'd have seen in the late 90's/early 00's.Originally Posted by paul_oshea
Jaysus! Just as I was thinking Rovers had salvaged a decent result in an overall tie they go and conceded again Agent Hoare not showing enough at this level again. Rovers can still win the tie, losing it between the ears not in football ability. Those away goals could be key.....
Good description. Don't think Flora are all that great either, but they're technically half-decent and are getting gifted chances, and you can't gift Longford the sort of chances Rovers are gifting tonight
How did Rovers beat Slovan?
Absolutely mad performance from Rovers. Bradley has to take a share of the blame for some of the tactical naïveté baffling that they’ve allowed Flora midfielders to run so freely through the middle over and over without addressing it. Unfortunately, too many individual errors too just adding to the tactical issues.
Absolutely. Has proved that with Dundalk in previous years. Shockingly bad from Rovers defensively. Frustrating when they shown they are capable of troubling Flora up front.
Out for a spell, got neglected, lay on the bench unselected.
Slovan were just rusty/half asleep still from their holidays, is what it looks like now.
I like that Flora team, no histrionics, break quickly and decisively.They are going to be well equipped to get a result in Tallaght.
Rovers centre mid and defence were truly embarrassing.
Absolutely brutal performance. We can do far better all over the pitch but I don't see us not conceding at home. 3-1 and take it to extra time and penos is about the only scenario I could see where we go through.
Yeah, it's possible alright.
Who's that on co-comm - Flora "probably deserved the win"? No probably about it; that was dire stuff.
Pretty sure you can, tbf.
Upwards to the vanguard where the pressure is too high.
Shocking from Rovers defensively. Probably should have conceded more than four. Also Rovers didn't create a huge amount from open play. A lot to do next week and I can't see them not conceding. It's typical 1st Euro TV match of the season after all the previous good results and then Rovers produce a performance like that.
Couldn't agree more. To concede a fourth goal after clawing it back to 3-2 is unforgivable. OK going forward, but an utter shambles in defence.Really awful.
Rovers conceded more goals in one game than we did in 6. I just thought I’d point that out :-D Watched Flora’s game last week and knew offensively they were very good. Now they do give up chances too. Just not as many as Rovers. Tie over because they’ll score in Tallaght.
That's Graham Gratland I think. Yeah, the last time I've seen such a woeful away performance was Dundalk out in Larnaca a few years back, and in Dundalk's defence, that was a serious team they lost to containing ex-La Liga players, way better than Flora. I think Kenny played Hoare at RB that night, so he's a partial common denominator there. This was a very winnable match for Rovers, and they failed rather badly.
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Rovers got what they deserved. Such a disappointment. Very difficult to see them having any hope of going through now. I'd back Flora to score plenty more on the break again if Rovers play like that next week. Hopefully I'm wrong though.
I was genuinely hoping that our league winners could go on and qualify for the group stages of this new competition relatively often, maybe every year or two, but that was such a naive display it doesn't give me much confidence. It's the hope that kills you!
As Kerr said, Finn (and Mannus I'd add) the only defensive player to come out with credit.
As someone said earlier, the only explanation I can grasp is that Rovers must have been complacent. I've never seen them so poor in Europe. Did they start to believe their favourites tag?
Dire stuff from Rovers.
Hoare & Joey were a mess. Did towell touch the ball in the time he was on.
Very naiive to be so open defensively, especially to the counter attack.
Tie over now.
Must do better next year if/when we get to this stage.
Hard to pinpoint with the emotions so high Philosophizer but as you said, midfield went missing and left the back 3 exposed. Vassiljev ran amok at times. Looks like Joey doesn't have the legs for this level anymore while Hoare is just not a good option on the left side of Pico. He's OK on the right but hasn't been good on the left. He was poor tonight and at fault for a few of the goals though it's hard to blame one man when the whole team was at sea. We should be better with Grace in there but can we score enough goals without conceding? Not based on tonights game but then...we've made things hard before and come back and that was absolutely the worst I've seen us in a long time so....the only way us up right?
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