sstackho Posted September 15, 2004 Share Posted September 15, 2004 Football: Hume hailed by manager after side "settle down" NICK HILTON 295 words 15 September 2004 Daily Post (Liverpool) 32 English © The Liverpool Daily Post & Echo Ltd, 2004. MANAGER Brian Little hailed Tranmere"s 2-0 victory over Oldham Athletic as a reward for the team"s patience. Tranmere secured their fourth straight home win of the League One campaign thanks to second-half goals by Eugene Dadi and Iain Hume. Little said afterwards: "We were getting a bit frus-trated in the first half and lost a bit of discipline. "We had become ragged and we needed to settle things down in the second half. "We needed to get Iain Hume on the ball and having a go at them. "Iain had been laying the ball off early during the first half but we felt that when he took players on they were uncomfortable. "He did that and it changed the game for us. "" Little conceded Tranmere had been some way below their best in a nervous first half. He said: "We were only the better side after we had gone 2-0 up. "But I think we learned a lesson about patience tonight. I was delighted to get to half-time at 0-0. "We had been taking too many risks towards the end of the first half, and we needed to settle the players down and take on their opponents man for man. They responded to that. "" The victory lifted Tranmere into third place in the table and Little said: "Now we are in the top three the important thing is to stay there. "It"s very pleasing that we have conceded only five goals this season, which is the best record in the division. Defence is one of our strong points. "" Little reported that striker Calvin Zola, who limped off after 31 minutes, has a calf strain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jeffery S. Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 Interesting eve for Canucks in Uefa, with Odd-Feyenoord (Occean), Hearts-Braga (McKenna still suffering from his knee injury with the other strikers also hurting), Millwall-Ferencvaros (Simpson and Serioux in the European premiere for Millwall), and PAOK-Alkmaar (Fernandes, listed as third keeper for the first team, no action yet in official matches but with the other two well over 30 his time will come). Updates as the matches begin starting with Odd at 7 continental time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loud Mouth Soup Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 quote:Originally posted by sstackho Pesch playing for the Derby reserves??? I guess you missed my post on the first page mentioning it already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivan Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 Jeffrey, does your source list anything on Kappos with AEK? They are losing 1-0 to a Slovenian side after 13 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonovision Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 I'm in the Netherlands so I should get to watch most of the Odd-Feyenoord match on TV after the first 20 minutes or so, so I'll try to give a pretty comprehensive report on Oliver's game if there is anything worth mentioning. He is starting, by the way. Edit: By the by, AZ Alkmaar (who are playing against Thunder Dan's team) are my home team out here. I haven't been to any matches because of the membership scheme and other travel plans, but they seem to have a pretty small stadium by UEFA standards (roughly 8400). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massive Attack Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 Kappos isn't starting or on the bench for AEK http://skysports.planetfootball.com/commonfiles/matchreport/index.asp?fix=268772 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sstackho Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 34' 0-0 Occean (Odd) is booked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marktci Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 Simpson starting for Millwall. Serioux on the bench. Online text commentary at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/shared/bsp/hi/football/statistics/teams/m/millwall/html/live_hi.stm Match thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massive Attack Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 You could probably listen to the Millwall game here: http://tinyurl.com/5e8ev I'm at work and won't be able to test if it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonovision Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 Feyenoord beat Odd 1-0 with a goal off of a setpiece where the keeper or the wall was poorly positioned. Occean played a pretty good match. He was pretty lonely at times, playing as the high man in what seemed a 4-5-1 or something to that effect. A lot of high balls were directed his way, and he won his share of them. He seemed to be the target of most set pieces and crosses. Forced a good save on a header from a cross late in the 1st half. He seemed a bit lost sometimes when he had the ball at his feet and had to create, and did lose possession a few times, although he made up for it with a nice creative run from the sideline to the top of the 18-yard box where he dropped the ball for a teammate's attempted lob. Also drew an ovation from the crowd when he fought kept a long clearance on his own side of half from going out, split two Feyenoord players and then attempted a long through-ball for a teammate that was a little long. Looks awkward with the ball, but style isn't everything. A shame about the result; a draw would have been fair given that Odd carried the play in the 1st half. Has anybody ever watched Feyenoord play? If so, what do you think of Bruno Basto (aka Greg Louganis). He had the fans booing him every time he touched the ball by midway through the 2nd half and he earned it with his antics. Oliver's yellow was in a "third man in" situation where a shoving match was brewing and OO jumped in and moved the pile a little bit. He has a knack for creating space and respect by throwing his weight around a bit. Not overly large, but very strong. A positive game, he went 90 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Beaver Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 Jonovision, great report. Good to hear Ocean acquitted himself well enough. I do not think he's the finished product yet, which is good news. Nice to have a big man up front. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sstackho Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 Football: Dragons slay ed by bustling Shakers MARK CURRIE 222 words 16 September 2004 Daily Post (Liverpool) 46 English © The Liverpool Daily Post & Echo Ltd, 2004. PONTINS HOLIDAY LGE Wrexham Reserves 1 Bury Reserves 3 WREXHAM Reserves surrendered second spot to visitors Bury last night, who took the points thanks to two goals from Jon Newby. The young home side found it hard going against their opponents, although Matt Shaw should have put them ahead after 15 minutes when he took a pass from Griff Jones but failed to hit the target. Bury took advantage of Wrexham"s sloppy passing to get on top and Danny Evans had to save from Colin Kazim-Richards before Lee Unsworth missed a free header. But the visitors went ahead in the 43rd minute, Newby looking suspiciously off side after latching on to James Barrow"s pass to score. Bury wasted an opportunity to increase their lead in the 67th minute when Barrow"s cross was scooped over the bar by Kazim-Richards but as Wrexham came more into the game and Mark Jones was not far away with a first-time effort from 25 yards. The visitors tightened their grip in the 77th minute when a quick break stretched the home defence and Newby finished well. Wrexham pulled one back in the 89th minute through Griff Jones before Terry Dunfield restored Bury"s two-goal margin with a penalty late on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sstackho Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 UEFA Cup: Ono scores for Dutch 234 words 16 September 2004 15:38 Associated Press Newswires English © 2004. The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. SKIEN, Norway (AP) - Midfielder Shinji Ono scored in the 74th minute for Dutch league leader Feyenoord to beat Norway's Odd Grenland 1-0 in a UEFA Cup first-round, first-leg Cup game on Thursday. Ono, coming off a disappointing Olympics with Japan, fired a free kick over the wall, and the ball dipped just inside goalkeeper Heinz Muller's post. Ruud Gullit, the former star who coaches Feyenoord, benched five of his regulars. Ono and forward Romeo Castelen came on at the start of the second half, which Feyenoord controlled throughout. Odd Grenland carried the play in the first half. Morten Knutsen came close just five minutes in when he hit the crossbar. The Norwegian first-division side missed plenty of other scoring chances. "It was frustrating not scoring a goal considering all the chances we had in the first half," said Odd Grenland captain Jan Frode Nornes. "It's going to be tough in the return match, but everything can happen in football. Feyenoord will be favored, but we proved that we could play an even game with them today." Polish referee Tomasz Mikulski booked six players, Morten Fevang and Olivier Occean of Odd Grenland, and Bruno Basto, Glenn Loovens, Hossam Ghaly and South Korean Olympian Song Chong-gug of Feyenoord. The second leg is on Sept. 30 at De Kuip stadium in Rotterdam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canso Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 Hey Dandal, what position does Hutchinson play with his club? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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