Season 49 (12.11.14/8.02.14)

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Disappointing start to the season for the Leicester Tigers

Leicester Tigers have lost there opening match of the season at home to Ac Milan in the first leg of the Preliminary stages of the cup. An all round poor performance from the Tigers saw Ac Milan's Center Midfielder Giang (34') kick the ball in to the back of the net. This made the home fans raise the noise as just before half time the home team had 3 consecutive corners, however failing to hit the target on all 3 times. This was disappointing for the fans as the players ran in for the half time break. After the players came back out onto the field the Tigers improved however Howard tripped the attacker in the box giving Ac Milan a chance to go 2 points in front. The Leicester Tigers goal Keeper was un able to stop the ball making the score 0 - 2. Kolay (77') the scorer. The boys in Green and Red tried hard to get a least one goal in the match however this was unsuccessful with the game ending 0 - 2.

Team Talk

We have to hit back stronger and harder tomorrow, or else we will be kicked out of the Cup in Round 1 and that is not acceptable for a team as good as us.

Press conference

The Leicester Tigers manager says "Today we just weren't good enough in attack and defense. We gave away a stupid penalty in the second half and we need to make amense for this in the 2nd leg or else our Cup run will ending sooner than expected. Yes, they are a good and strong opposition but we are going to come accross stronger opposition in the future and we are going to need to beat them. Before we leave for Italy I will be having all the players turn up for a training session under the lights tonight, and we will work on everything we need too"

The Leicester Tigers Club Captain says "I had a bad game, everyone had a bad game, we are just going to have to take this game on the chin and head down to Italy for the replay tomorrow looking for a 3 - 0 victory and nothing else. We will work on what we need to work on tonight, then have good journey down to Italy and have a bit of training there, we are ready."