QuoteCorrection: Hopeless rather than hapless.
3-0 now and not looking good for Shels. Their supposed fundamentals of being solid and hard to beat has been a complete fallacy at this level. And they’ve offered nothing at all when in possession too. A hapless performance overall.
Correction: Hopeless rather than hapless.
In fairness to Shels there are some serious batterings happening this evening.
Could easily be 4 or 5 now. Zurich cutting Shels open quite a bit. Fitness levels probably starting to take a toll. If they can keep it at 3 or even nick something to take back home they’ll be doing well.
1-0 Pats after 5 minutes, so some bit of cheer this week!
Some good news with Pat’s leading
Great start for Pats ,lovely free kick from Mulreany
Irish by birth ,Harps by the grace of god.
Yeah judging by some of the results it's a real step up from the 1st round to the 2nd round.
Can't say I'm too confident of pats at home to Vaduz.
There you go they just scored!
Shels lucky to get out with 3. Zurich wasteful in that 2nd half. Could, and probably should have been worse.
2-0 Pats - Kenny lives!
Outstanding by Pats so far.
Nice to see a continental team screw up at the back and a LOI team be clinical.
He knows how to do Europe.Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Just a side note on Pat’s tie. Winner of this looks like they could be off to Azerbaijan. Sabah 3 nil up away to Maccabi. That game is now in injury time.
That Israeli team got spanked, which considering the current Pats score, is good news for everyone.
Very lively start from Pat's. A world away from their tempo last Sunday in the Brandywell.
Be interesting to see if they push on and try and kill tie off tonight.
Vaduz very lucky to still be only 2 down.
Awful pity he didnt stay on as mgr time Vaduz beat us. Always thought AM was overhyped imo
Gary Cronin is he the right man to manage Longford Town?
This commentator at Richmond sounds like a bit of a dose…
Disappointing Shels performance though the technical/speed/physical gulf was evidential, I've said here before our ball retention is shocking for a team top of the LOI and it was badly exposed tonight at this higher level. I don't feel we maximised everything to pull off even a 1-0 defeat to keep the tie alive going into Tolka next week. Our only right back Gannon being suspended was always going to be a problem with a re-jigged backline but I have no idea why Boyd (even Martin) and Caffrey did not start, Duff hasn't touched John O'Sullivan all season and gives him a start tonight. Love Duff he gets 95% right but he does have a few tactical headscratchers
All said and done from when we were at a much higher level 20 years ago legitimately competing for 75% of our final qualifying game against Deportivo to getting shat on 1-4 by Cabinteely at Tolka in the First Division in 2017 it's a much better place to be in today still looking forward to the 2nd half of the tie next week
The Leinster Senior League needs a strong Bohemians
Was thinking 30 minutes in that it'd be a massive crime if Pats didn't bring at least a 2 goal lead away with how much better they are. Vaduz grew into that game though and are capable of causing them problems.
All in all though a great first half from Pats. They need to keep their clean sheet and see if they can nick another one. Vaduz clearly capable of gifting chances when pressed properly
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