Djurgardens vs Cork City

eirebhoy

This will be the seeded teams in the 1st round bar 1 or 2 suprises (there won't be any more than that after looking through the results in 1st legs of the CL and UC).

CSKA Moscow (TH)
AS Roma
Bayer Leverkusen
Feyenoord
VfB Stuttgart
AJ Auxerre
Galatasaray
AEK Athens
Hertha Berlin
Besiktas
AZ Alkmaar
Seville
Deportivo
PAOK Thessaloniki
Slavia Prague/Anderlecht
Real Betis/Monaco
FC Basel
Wisla Kraków/Panathinaikos
Middlesbrough
Sporting Lisbon
Espanyol
Shakhtar Donetsk
Austria Vienna
Heerenveen
Grazer AK
CA Osasuna
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Valencia
Red Star Belgrade
Everton
Bolton Wanderers
Sampdoria
Lens
Palermo
Steaua Bucuresti
Brøndby IF
Racing Genk
Maccabi Tel-Aviv
Grasshopper-Club Zürich
Zenit St. Petersburg

You'd be hoping for Brondby, Genk, Steaua ( ) or Grasshopper to get a realistic chance of getting to the group stages.

Slash/ED

No doubt Steaua would be a decent draw, or Rosenborg if they drop down. I wouldn't say Cork could definitely beat them, but they would certinaly have a chance. They wouldn't make the farcical errors we made and are far better at keeping the ball.

jubbly

Agreed with Slash there, I think CCFC can play the better football and keep posession so they should have a good chance if they face a weaker side.

Just glancing at the list and its really against the odds if CCFC will get through to the group stages, thats if the can overturn Djurngardens. If they do I think it will be great for the league. Shels have a good squad, its just that the players havent gelled yet and our defence is fragile. There is nothing stopping us doing well next season.

redspider

gimmick wrote:

^ Im sure Damien Richardson will take that bit of advice. He may not have thought of it in the first place.

You seem to forget that Cork were lucky to come away with the 1-1 draw. Man of the match was the Cork keeper and he saved their skin several times. It could have been easily 2-1 or 3-1. Cork created very few chances and their goal was a good "wonder" goal.

If Cork can lift their game, if the crowd get behind them, which they surely will, then they have a fair chance of getting through. If Dju get an early goal, Cork will have to take the game to them. It wont be easy to score and there is a danger of Dju getting another one on the break.

So Cork have a slight advantage, but from the first leg it would seem that Dju have the better capability on the pitch.


In terms of the other issue of whether Cork's success in this competition would lead to a domination of the league, I think this would not be a bad thing. LOI needs a succesful club, and a new benchmark would catalyse the other teams into improving. I agree with you Gimmick in that its unlikely to happen.

Lets see if Cork get passed Dju ....

redspider

Slash/ED

redspider wrote:

You seem to forget that Cork were lucky to come away with the 1-1 draw. Man of the match was the Cork keeper and he saved their skin several times. It could have been easily 2-1 or 3-1. Cork created very few chances and their goal was a good "wonder" goal.

You fail to mention Kearney had one taken off the line that looked a certain goal apparently.

redspider

Slash/ED wrote:

You fail to mention Kearney had one taken off the line that looked a certain goal apparently.

I didnt see the full-game and I didnt keep notes of all the chances, nor did I record it on video and watch each incident in slow-mo 5 times, so I wont claim to be an expert on that particualr game.

But you will know whether the point I am making is valid or not, and that is that Dju probably deserved to win that match on the chances created. Sure, Cork created some too, and maybe a stat from the match might be something like:
chances: Dju 7 Cork 3.

It was clear that the Cork keeper made some excellent saves which on another evening would have gone in. He deserved the MOTM by far and kept Cork in the tie.


Its Cork and Shels next, so good luck with that Slashed. I hope its a good game and an advertisement for LOI football. If Cork and Shels cant turn on the style and entertainment, then the LOI i in trouble. I'll be tuning in.

redspider

The Insider

Is this match on the telly??

soma

here's to cork getting a 0-0 or 1-0 at home and then stuffing emmm... everton!

gimmick

redspider wrote:

I didnt see the full-game and I didnt keep notes of all the chances, nor did I record it on video and watch each incident in slow-mo 5 times, so I wont claim to be an expert on that particualr game.

Well dont make invalid assertions on something you didnt see.

But you will know whether the point I am making is valid or not, and that is that Dju probably deserved to win that match on the chances created. Sure, Cork created some too, and maybe a stat from the match might be something like:
chances: Dju 7 Cork 3.

Probably? Coulda woulda, shoulda? From what Ive been told is that it was a tight game, and City will not fear Dju next week. As for an above remark about a 'wonder goal' from Dju. In fact it was a deflected shot which trickled over the line after Mick Devine flapped at it. Citys goal on the other hand was well worked team goal.

redspider

gimmick wrote:

Well dont make invalid assertions on something you didnt see.
Probably? Coulda woulda, shoulda? From what Ive been told is that it was a tight game, and City will not fear Dju next week. As for an above remark about a 'wonder goal' from Dju. In fact it was a deflected shot which trickled over the line after Mick Devine flapped at it. Citys goal on the other hand was well worked team goal.

I saw highlights of the game. I didnt watch the full game, or re-watch it to understand the salient points. It looks like you didnt watch it all (!!) so by your own argument, you shouldnt be commenting at all! Why dont you therefore just edit out and retract all your statements and do us all a favour !

If you read my post properly you would have seen that the wonder goal was from Cork! I put it in quotes to try to emphasise that it was not such a wonder goal, it was a good goal, but one in a game where they had few chances to score such goals. A good finish by Fenn.

You think City have nothing to fear, well, we'll see. The advantage is to Cork, but no-one thinks the tie is over, apart from you maybe, but then, maybe no-one is really listening to you.

redspider

applehunter

I dont think we should fear this crowd from Sweden at all. We limited them to half chances last week.

Last year we beat Malmo home and away.
We beat Njemigen at home.
For 75 mins we gave Nantes the scare of their lives only to concede late on.

We should respect every team, but fear is not an option.

Joe Gamble and George O'Callaghan will definately not feel inferior to them.

I hear there is going to be a special display organised. Hopefully we can create the same atmosphere as last night.

Thanx 4 The Fish

Keep it civil gents.

gimmick

redspider wrote:

I saw highlights of the game. I didnt watch the full game, or re-watch it to understand the salient points. It looks like you didnt watch it all (!!) so by your own argument, you shouldnt be commenting at all! Why dont you therefore just edit out and retract all your statements and do us all a favour !

If you read my post properly you would have seen that the wonder goal was from Cork! I put it in quotes to try to emphasise that it was not such a wonder goal, it was a good goal, but one in a game where they had few chances to score such goals. A good finish by Fenn.

You think City have nothing to fear, well, we'll see. The advantage is to Cork, but no-one thinks the tie is over, apart from you maybe, but then, maybe no-one is really listening to you.

redspider

Oooooh sarcasm. I never said the tie was over, far from it, only an idiot would think so. And, in my saying City have nothing to fear, well they dont? if you had ever actually seen them play, you wold realise that as well.

As for saying Citys goal was a breakaway and so on, well how many teams, big clubs like Liverpool, Juve etc have gone away to sit back, soak up pressure and hit on the counter? If, say Liverpool, did such versus Chelsea(as they did in the CL semi), you would say it was a professional job done. Why doesnt the same apply here for eL clubs?

Töpher

Because he doesn't know our players names