A draw with the
essence of a win was the result at Afas Stadium back in Alkmar, Netherlands,
after a determined 10 man Dundalk FC- came back and through the opportune score
of substitute Ciaran Kilduff a valuable point was rescued.
With this score, the
possibilities are abundant for the Lilywhites.
For the league of
Ireland back to back to back champions and looking forward to net their third
shield, Dundalk FC is now living the hype of an all-around excitement of
playing with the big guns of Europe.
Despite of losing to
Legia Warsaw and seeing their near possibilities fulminated of playing among
the elite of Champions League, for the Lilywhites Boss Stephen Kenny the Europa
League will keep his squad very busy.
Seeded in Group D,
the Loth County Boys are in company of such distinguished and tough company in Russia
Zenith, Netherlands’ AZ Alkamar and Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv.
As the hour of truth
came upon the Loth Boys, for their Manager Stephen Kenny it is back to business
again with his Boys, looking forward to start writing history once again for
this successful club in these stages. Being the stage groups in full action,
the Irish Boys were ready to open at always-difficult Afas Stadium, located in
Alkmar, facing a one tough and hardened AZ Alkmar.
The Netherlands Boys
of the AZ squad, being no foreigners to these types of competitions, obviously
were the overall favorites to deliver three points of gold, as for the Dundalk
squad playing as an away squad and against a not so easy foe, the outlook did
not look at all positive.
Still one thing this
club during the qualifiers, showing a lot of perseverance and persistence and
seen as a not so strong eleven playing as a visiting entity, these Boys don’t
care when the going gets tough and a bit odd, these can overcome any challenge
given.
Despite the red card
and leaving this squad to play with ten men, for their Boss Stephen Kenny seeing
the diligence his squad has put and standing firm by showing no inhibitions or
being intimidated not even by the Alkmar followers chants in high decibels.
As the match started
between these two titans, the locals immediate presence and confidence was seen
in the scoreboard, Stijn Wuytens on the 60th minute opened the score for the home squad
and later that their fortunes change for the best.
With the advantage in
tier favor and dominating the whole match, the Alkmar luck took a turn for the
best when in the 70th minute the visitors left with just ten men
when Dundalk’s Stephen O’ Donnell ejected with a blatant red card.
Making all sorts of
moves the Dundalk Boss seek the ultimate of strategies to when he introduced
Robbie Benson, Chris Shields and Ciaran Kilduff to start something in the AZ
backfield.
Still for the Men of
Stephen Kenny, this match was not far from over as suddenly his moves at the
end paid off for the best, when he introduced Ciaran Kilduff as a super Sub and
suddenly with a play that derivate from Darryl Horgan for the equalizer.
At the end, the Dundalk
squad dominated in some instances of this match and seeing how the locals did
puta goal past Gary Rogers, the vising Lilywhites put up high the name of the
Airtricity League of Ireland with their insistence.
Very well playing
with true grit is what the Dundalk Lilywhites will be showing off in its
upcoming Europa League compromises.
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