League of Ireland in Europe 2016

CHealy

Lets reverse the situation, if that penalty incident was up the other end do Dundalk fans think they would have just played on without shouting for it? They would ya haha. Peno all day long wheter he meant it or not, it was very clear on TV. Kilduff knew exactly what he was doing up the other end, smart play to try buy the peno Iv seen them given.

Irish_rat

Legia were solid but nothing special. I think Dundalk showed them too much respect

mickmackey1

Legia will do nothing in the group stage.

Bateman

Legia will be lucky to get a point in the group stages. It was a fairly even game, an slight edge in fitness and cleverness gave Legia the win. There was some traffic incident in the port tunnel that I believe resulted in a lot of late arrivals in the ground. Decent crowd for the night that was in it, a sunny evening would have added another few thousand.

dr.kenneth noisewater

mickmackey1 wrote:

Legia will do nothing in the group stage.

Neither would Dundalk in fairness

doncarlos

CHealy wrote: »

Lets reverse the situation, if that penalty incident was up the other end do Dundalk fans think they would have just played on without shouting for it? They would ya haha. Peno all day long wheter he meant it or not, it was very clear on TV. Kilduff knew exactly what he was doing up the other end, smart play to try buy the peno Iv seen them given.

Of course we'd shout for it, I shout for handballs when it hits the oppositions chest. Doesn't mean that the decision is right though.
I didn't think either decision was a penalty but not a lot we can do about it.

Mushy

dr.kenneth noisewater wrote: »

mickmackey1 wrote:

Legia will do nothing in the group stage.

Neither would Dundalk in fairness

Wouldn't expect Dundalk to though in all fairness.

Corholio

dr.kenneth noisewater wrote: »

Neither would Dundalk in fairness

They wouldn't be expected to though. Getting there would be already above all expectations, I'm pretty sure that was the point.

Bateman

There hasn’t been a Polish team in the CL group stage in 20 years though, people really shouldn’t be looking at this as a case of David v Goliath. Sometimes there is a natural suspicion that teams from larger nations have “another gear” to hit and are on cruise control. The reality is that we’ve no evidence to assume that they are any better than they showed last night, and Dundalk were only slightly edged out. If someone drags your man back at the end and takes a yellow, the tie is still alive going into the 2nd leg. As it is, they’ve been undone by a bit of (or lack of) cuteness as much as anything else.

Kingp35

Unfortunately Dundalk had very little going forward last night and were afraid to commit players into the box when they did get into good positions out wide. I think they were frightened of Legia and showed them too much respect when really there isn't much between the teams at all.

Dundalk competed well but never looked like getting a goal.

Bateman

Would agree with that. Not sure he’d pick the same team if he knew then what he knows now. Finn offered nothing when he came on…

Ferris_Bueller

Disappointing result for Dundalk in the end. Don't think it was a fair reflection of the game, I would say that Legia were slightly the better team but a draw wouldn't have been unfair. Penalty decision looked harsh from where I was sitting but haven't seen any replays since, don't think Dundalks shout for a peno had too much substance. Dundalk never really looked threatening, Legia looked fairly comfortable at the back for most of the night as I think their centre halves had the better of McMillan, when Kilduff came on he seemed a bit more likely to make a run in behind their defence.

Felt like there was a bigger crowd there than 30,000 as the lower tier seemed full apart from the odd seat around the place and the upper tier was probably more than half full, premium was the only full section of empty seats. There was serious traffic getting anywhere near the stadium and as a result a lot of people were late getting in, I was about 10 mins late and there was a lot of people still queuing to get in.

inforfun

Hope they can turn it around but if they dont, please draw Feyenoord in the EL group.....

Minderbinder

Bateman wrote: »

There hasn’t been a Polish team in the CL group stage in 20 years

That's an amazing stat. How on earth have a country that big who are football mad failed so miserably in European competition? They should be on a par with the likes of Portugal or at least qualifying fairly regularly like Ukranian clubs. Not to have any in 20 years is shocking.

inforfun

Polish clubs dont have the money some Ukrainian and Portuguese clubs have.
The Netherlands is going the same direction as Poland. About to lose the 1 guaranteed CL spot and once that is gone.
Only 15 years ago The Netherlands had 2 guaranteed and 1 qualifier in the CL.

Captain Havoc

Kanchelskis has applied for the Rover's job.

AgileMyth

There's a 'big' name linked with every big loi job. Usually fans taking the piss on twitter taken seriously by the papers..

AgileMyth

There's a 'big' name linked with every big loi job. Usually fans taking the piss on twitter taken seriously by the papers..

overshoot

AgileMyth wrote: »

There's a 'big' name linked with every big loi job. Usually fans taking the piss on twitter taken seriously by the papers..

theres still a part of me that wishes Julian Dicks got the Harps job.

AgileMyth

overshoot wrote: »

theres still a part of me that wishes Julian Dicks got the Harps job.

He's been linked with every job in the league.

Egil Ogstenstad to Sligo Rovers was my favourite. Some of the lads just made it up to see how far it'd get. National papers took it as gospel. Bookies made a fortune in it..

Alfa Quadrifoglio

A great tribute to the "Dundalk miracle" from BBC Sport

http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/37091532

I dont believe this tie is over, although the loss of Stephen O'Donnell is a huge, I think Kenny will set them up to have a right go in Warsaw. Once a Team has goals in them they have a chance and Dundalk always create chances, heres hoping!

Omackeral

Alfa Quadrifoglio wrote: »

A great tribute to the "Dundalk miracle" from BBC Sport

http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/37091532

I dont believe this tie is over, although the loss of Stephen O'Donnell is a huge, I think Kenny will set them up to have a right go in Warsaw. Once a Team has goals in them they have a chance and Dundalk always create chances, heres hoping!

I'd agree with you had that sucker punch at the end not trickled in. Man how disappointing was that. I think they can feel hard done-by.

Randomfriend

Was at the match myself, Longford fan who brought a few others along with me, to cheer on Vinny and SK's lads. Absolutely horrible day for a match, weather was cat, and probably kept a few thousand at home, there were a good few seats around us empty, and this was in section 501 which had sold out by Monday or so.

On the match, I thought Dundalk were pretty good, never had a chance to see a replay of the peno, live it looked a 50/50 decision, very hard to not let a shot hit your arm when it's fired at you from that range, think the keeper shouldn't have come out as he did thou, the late goal was sheer stupidity, and has probably put paid to the tie. Otherwise, there was little between the sides, I think the Poles had an ever so slight physical and technical edge, but Dundalk were better coached, a 1-1 draw shouldn't have been out of the question, but the margins are very fine as Dundalk already well know. An away draw out there would be good for the co efficient and is probably possible!

I just hope in the Europa Groups that they get one big draw, and one team that they can take at least a point out of.

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The Golden Miller

Alfa Quadrifoglio wrote: »

A great tribute to the "Dundalk miracle" from BBC Sport

http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/37091532

I dont believe this tie is over, although the loss of Stephen O'Donnell is a huge, I think Kenny will set them up to have a right go in Warsaw. Once a Team has goals in them they have a chance and Dundalk always create chances, heres hoping!

Going by Legia's last two leagues games, they are awful at the moment. If Dundalk believe and do go for it, it's certainly not game over

MonkeyTennis

Score one in each half and take it from there

Pighead

The Golden Miller wrote: »

Going by Legia's last two leagues games, they are awful at the moment. If Dundalk believe and do go for it, it's certainly not game over

In fairness, they rested ten players over the weekend for their latest defeat.

CHealy

Think Dundalk will look back on that second goal and wonder what if, which is a shame because even though Legia looked a better side, I dont think they deserved to lose 2-0.

It'll be a miracle if they get any sort of a result tonight, the Legia players and staff will literally be ran out of Poland if they don't finish it off and get Champions League for the first time in 20 odd years.

uch

To be fair, the Europa League group stages isn't too bad a consolation prize IMO

SantryRed

Tonight's referee already showing more bottle than last week by actually booking Legia players for cynical fouls.

Hammer Archer

Dundalk the better side so far. Horgan has had a couple of awful touches though. Could have been game over after that last one.

SantryRed

GAME ON

Hammer Archer

YABOYA BENSON!!!

GLaDOS

Screamer!

Diabhal Beag

One of the best strikes I've ever seen

HalloweenJack

What a goal!!!

westernfrenzy

What a goal

kksaints

That makes things interesting.

Vex Willems

Some strike!

Iused2likebusts

That was some goal

Amirani

Incredible finish from Benson

Jimmy Iovine

That was one of the greatest goals I've ever seen. Honestly. Amazing. Talk about a stepping up at the right time. Keep it up.

HalloweenJack

Great save there too!

Amirani

Just keep things tight the next 10 mins or so

Amirani

Could see Dundalk scoring another, but can't really see Legia not scoring

Ferris_Bueller

Jesus what a strike from Benson. Going in 1-0 at half time is excellent, 30,000 Polish fans will put a lot of pressure on the home team in the last 45 minutes..

ShamoBuc

Home fans not happy, always a good thing.

inforfun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPLlVKI_rwk

One of those that either go through the net or through the stratosphere

Amirani

inforfun wrote: »

One of those that either go through the net or through the stratosphere

Best bit is he's actually left-footed!

Hammer Archer

Horgan is having a mare.

SantryRed

Shiels really is the weaklink. He's so poor with the ball at his feet. Could really do with O'Donnell.