I see Celje won 4-1 on the night. Both down to 10 men before Celine finished the job with a brace.
So that means every team that Rovers faced in Europe this season has made the group stage. Could be drawn again against one of those two yet.
I see Celje won 4-1 on the night. Both down to 10 men before Celine finished the job with a brace.
So that means every team that Rovers faced in Europe this season has made the group stage. Could be drawn again against one of those two yet.
Larne down to 10 now.
Poor passing matters at this level. Disappointing goal to concede. Pohls can only save so many chances.
But they score with five to go! 3-1 on the night now; 4-3 on aggregate.
They'd have been dreading extra time a man down, but a great chance to avoid that now.
2-0 to PAOK in Tallaght; Rovers sinking without trace there it seems. PAOK are a good team for sure, but when was the last time Bradley so much as laid a glove on a team of that calibre?
Not been good across the 2 legs for Rovers.
Which one - Rovers or Larne?
Either way, I'm really following livescore updates (while on a Zoom meeting...!)
BBC NI Sports website. Larne were really starting to struggle until the goal. No nonsense blasted through the keeper by a tired looking striker that could do liitle moe than swing a leg at it.
Does open the question again of (relatively) small investment opening the way to European money and the chance to build in to higher competitions and more money.
Larne have done it. Be funny if we had an All Ireland match in the league stage of a European competition.
Looks like TNS in same pot as Rovers so can draw them too obviously.
Larne win. Nearly punished at the end, strange free kick, nice clean slide tackle clearance but defender daftly left a foot hanging so the Lincoln player managed to catch a boot about the knee ages after the clearance. Free header from the resulting free just put past the post. Lane were goosed if that had gone in as they were out on their feet by FT nevermind ET.
The new structure helps hugely though, as long as a league winning club wins its first game in CL qualifier, its almost impossible not to make the group stages, certainly its an easier route.
If the Conf League was around late 10's, Dundalk would have prob made 1 or 2 more groups, and Cork City too in 2018.
Just look at the games / route Pats had in comparison this season, and harder games too.
That said full credit to Larne and TNS, that Euro map of 'associations not making a group stage' must be all coloured in now.
#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).
Yeah I agree, it makes even more sense for a P6 to lurk about. I know Larne have been bankrolled by a local and fan who made his fortune and invested in his club. But he has taken a basketcase with no significant success domestically to league titles and European groups. New competition and access, looking at such example, surely would pique the interest of those with enough finances to have a go in Loi/IL/Welsh short to medium term but not enough for for the English system obviously or Scots. I think this could herald a ne era of interest from 'investors'. Cobh Ramblers in the Conference league 2029....
Presume they can get Celje again, yeah?
Some rough clubs in pot 5. How are Panathanaikos seeded lower than Rovers for example?
That jumped out at me at first, but a little research shows that they've made 2 Europa group stages in the last 8 years, where they lost most of their matches, and haven't been in the CL for 13 years. Re Celje, as far as I know, yeah they can get them, which woiuld be huge, knowing they've beaten them already.
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