Bad night in EUROPE

[WYNESS101]

Steaua Bucharest 3-0 Motherwell (FT)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/europe/8175035.stm

Aberdeen 1-3 Olomouc (10 mins left)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/t...ext/default.stm

[WYNESS101]

GOAL: Aberdeen 1-4 Olomouc

[WYNESS101]

GOAL: Aberdeen 1-5 Olomouc

FULL TIME

Edited July 30, 2009 by WYNESS101

[Glen Mhor]

After Celtic last night, now these two results. Total humiliation for the Dons. Only a reflection of the low ebb Scottish football has reached.

[Yngwie]

That Aberdeen result is a shocker.

[tokelyisvictorious]

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

got what they deserve, the czechs were the better side. that result cheered me up. any other team and i would be lamenting that result.

[Johnboy]

Not the best of starts for McGhee....

Terrible result for Scottish football - two of our sides now virtually out of Europe, and the season's hardly started yet.

[DanielMacBean]

mikey fraser was dropped for motherwell

[Mick]

not a big surprise really

[Georgeios]

mikey fraser was dropped for motherwell

:018:

[RiG]

:018: @ Aberdeen!

[SMEE]

Wasnt McGhees first result a carbon copy of Strachans first result wi Celtic (in competitive games)? Both games in Europe, both got humped 5-1. Maybe the not so dandy dons will go on and dominate Sdottish football for the next few years! :018:

[martinskye]

As much as I dislike Aberdeen and the OF I hate to see them doing poorly in Europe. It just embarrasses Scotland. I mean who's heard of Sigma Olomouc?

[Kirishima]

There is absolutely no excuse for 1-5. If they were playing a team from the top four of Italy, England, Spain then sure, but c'mon...dire isnt the word.

I am sad for Scottish football, and don't see why many posters take any glee in it if they are true fans of the scottish game

[starchief]

We need summer football to stop this constant embarrassment. Motherwell and Aberdeen (and Falkirk to some extent) have barely got a team together with all their comings-and-goings. Celtic's first match might be the most important of their season, yet they've hardly warmed up. Just embarrassing for Scotland.

[Charles Bannerman]

Wasnt McGhees first result a carbon copy of Strachans first result wi Celtic (in competitive games)? Both games in Europe, both got humped 5-1. Maybe the not so dandy dons will go on and dominate Sdottish football for the next few years! :dunno:

Celtic actually lost 5-0 to Artmedia.... and then almost pulled it off at Celtic Park! Can't see the Dons or Motherwell getting as close I'm afraid.

So far then, that's Falkirk out, Aberdeen and Motherwell with almost impossible deficits and Celtic on a dicky wicket too since it won't be easy to pull back a one goal deficit in Moscow with their opponents also in possession of an away goal. I would imagine Celtic are regretting mising out on the SPL title which would have put them straight into the group stages. As it stands, it's now looking fairly likely that for (at least?) the third time in five seasons, a member of the Old Firm will fail to get past the Champions League qualifying stages and be out of Europe after two games.

And the financial turnover of the OF clubs is several times greater than that of any other club in Scottish Football. In practice, Scotland is way out of its depth in European football.

In summary, it seems more than possible that four of the Scottish representatives could be out of Europe before the fifth one, Rangers, have even started.

[Yngwie]

A team like Aberdeen spends the whole season getting excited about the possibility of qualifying for Europe.

Only for it to be 90 minutes of humiliation and then its all over. Talk about anticlimax.

[Johnboy]

A team like Aberdeen spends the whole season getting excited about the possibility of qualifying for Europe.

Only for it to be 90 minutes of humiliation and then its all over. Talk about anticlimax.

Did you have an Aunty Climax?

[Charles Bannerman]

Wasnt McGhees first result a carbon copy of Strachans first result wi Celtic (in competitive games)? Both games in Europe, both got humped 5-1. Maybe the not so dandy dons will go on and dominate Sdottish football for the next few years! :splat03:

Celtic actually lost 5-0 to Artmedia.... and then almost pulled it off at Celtic Park! Can't see the Dons or Motherwell getting as close I'm afraid.

So far then, that's Falkirk out, Aberdeen and Motherwell with almost impossible deficits and Celtic on a dicky wicket too since it won't be easy to pull back a one goal deficit in Moscow with their opponents also in possession of an away goal. I would imagine Celtic are regretting mising out on the SPL title which would have put them straight into the group stages. As it stands, it's now looking fairly likely that for (at least?) the third time in five seasons, a member of the Old Firm will fail to get past the Champions League qualifying stages and be out of Europe after two games.

And the financial turnover of the OF clubs is several times greater than that of any other club in Scottish Football. In practice, Scotland is way out of its depth in European football.

In summary, it seems more than possible that four of the Scottish representatives could be out of Europe before the fifth one, Rangers, have even started.

Nobody seems to have noticed that I forgot about Hearts. It's only now that I'm realising that Scotland has (had!) SIX teams in Europe (albeit one of these just for being "decent chaps"). That's a very large number for a small country which has footballing "independence" thanks only to an historical anomaly and where standards of play are relatively poor.

[RiG]

:017:

[tm4tj]

Just got a little bit better last night. An excellent win for Celtic away to Dinamo Moscow. It does hurt to say that, but nonetheless it was a good albeit unexpected result.

[latviaman]

Just got a little bit better last night. An excellent win for Celtic away to Dinamo Moscow. It does hurt to say that, but nonetheless it was a good albeit unexpected result.

Well you guys I was in Moscow with a dead plane,(electrics) so we had to stay overnight, we got tickets for the Celtic game and it was ok they played well Dinamo were poor, but it was funny to see celtic guys with the russian hats after. I met Tony Mowbray at the airport, a nice guy

[Yngwie]

Not looking too good for Aberdeen at the moment, needing 7 goals in 7 minutes.

[caley100]

1--0 To Motherwell at the moment, they get another and its game on i recon.

However... Aberdeen are down 3-0 in the second leg and Oloumuc have just missed a penalty! what a shame eh...

Edited August 6, 2009 by caley100

[martinskye]

However... Aberdeen are down 3-0 in the second leg and Oloumuc have just missed a penalty! what a shame eh...

I can't stand Aberdeen at all but for our country's respect I really wish the roles could be reversed.