QuoteThink he means the travel aspect.Originally Posted by TheBoss
Why ?
You an expert on Armenian Football or something.
Think he means the travel aspect.
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All of this has happened before. All of it will happen again.
That is a not a reason for a hard game, those days are long gone.
In that case, Pyunik have a hard game.
It's not the ideal draw for Derry but at least they're from the capital of Armenia, which is a big advantage than going to bandit country, i.e. their equivalent of Louth or Monaghan!
Derry should be able to beat them, though it's interesting to see that when they last qualified in the CL in 04/05 they went on to play Shaktar Donetsk!
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derry got an ok tie, thats possible to win on there current from, if they pick up form id say they could, and i mean could possibly beat shaktar, pats i think got thoughest draw, OB are no push over so if they beat them theyll deserve it, and drogs got the easiest draw, SP Libertas are part timers on there first european adverture as far as i know so should be a win for drogs,
my predictions are.
derry scrap through by one or two goals,
pats to get knocked out,
and drogs to sail through.
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Derry City have a tough one, that team has internationals in it so they must be decent enough, all depends on the home leg, they simply have to win it to progress
St Pats have the hardest one, again they need a good result at home
would i be correct in saying that if Pats somehow won then they would take Odense's high co effieicents??
Drogheda should win comfortably, 2 wins hopefully
Overall it is going to be hard to get 2/3, i dont expect it anyway
No only for CL afaik.
no, that only happens when the DRAW for the next round is held BEFORE the earlier round ties have been played - then they presume that the higher seeded team would go through & use their coefficiant
hope that makes sense
Good look to Derry if they get through to the 2nd round. Couldn't have got it any tougher.
I know the travelling will be difficult and all that but I doubt Pyunik are that much better than most of the other unseeded teams personally.
If they were that good they wouldn't be unseeded.
I think Derry would probably find it hard against a lot of unseeded sides the form they're on. I still expect them to go through though, they've still got most of the squad from last year's run and that's bound to mean something.
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Their team is mainly comprised of Armenian internationals- hardly world beaters. Derry should win both legs.
The Armenian national side has the same amount of points as Belgium in their qualifying group and have a game in hand .
They finished two points off Macedonia in qualifying for the last World Cup .
They finished 6 points ahead of Northern Ireland and 3 behind the Ukraine in qualifying for Euro 2004 .
They're a bit better than you might expect , as you said not World beaters but I wouldn't be that confident of an away win .
I fancy Derry to win at home and maybe get a draw or a 1 goal defeat away and go through .
Shakhtar will hammer the winner though .
We ****ed, odense fans are planning for their next round already. Couldnt have gotten a worse draw and with O neill and Ndo possibly out if be last nights team that plays (oddly had none of our new signings just a bit of passion) Can see us getting the "moral victory" ****e from this game.
**** it anyway im all booked and ready to go, just hope we stil marginally in it for the 2nd leg.
kdjac
One of the happiest teams after this draw has to be Shelbourne. OK, so if they'd gone ahead and been accepted in the competition they may not have got the trip to Armenia, but one cannot help suspect there were a few relieved smiles at Tolka following that draw!
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UEFA.com has both the Drogheda and Pats 1st leg ties scheduled for July 18th. However Ppats official website confirms that they are playing on Thursday July 19th. It would be great if they were on separate nights as some of us would like to see both games.
We playing home leg on 19th Thursday.
kdjac
Well, Northern Ireland must be a really excellent team cause they are 2nd ahead of Spain.
Its an Armenian Team, they have 5 players that play currently in the squad but only 2 play in the First 11.
I said good luck if they get into the 2nd round. Shakhtar could really destroy them over in the Ukraine.
The current squad on wikipedia has 9 Pyunik players in it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenia..._football_team
Mistakes:
Karen Dokhoyan - Krylya Sovetov Samara (RUS)
Aleksandr Tadevosyan - Bargh Shiraz (IRN)
Aghvan Mkrtchyan - Bargh Shiraz (IRN)
Hamlet Mkhitaryan - Pās FC Tehrān (IRN)
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