So, Matchday 1 of the Conference League is behind us. All in all, a mixed bag for the Irish sides involved in the league phase of Europe’s third-tier cup competition.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Shelbourne claimed their first-ever point in Europe after a close-fought 0-0 stalemate with BK Hacken. Aside from a few half-chances for Mipo Odubeko and Kerr McInroy, it was a quiet game played in tricky conditions. Their Swedish opponents failed to really trouble Wessel Speel too – Isak Brusberg went close in the second-half!\u00a0<\/p>\n
As for the Hoops, they shipped a 4-1 defeat in the Czech capital this evening. Lukas Sadilek opened the scoring before Martin Suchomel and Asger Sorensen netted either side of half-time. Danny Mandroiu pulled one back for Rovers before Lukas Haraslin struck late in injury time to seal the win for Sparta Praha.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So, Matchday 1 of the Conference League is behind us. All in all, a mixed bag for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,6437,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-99865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-shelbourne","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}