Republic of Ireland v Serbia - Friendly International - SS3 - KO:7:45 pm

BNMC · 05-03-2014 7:11pm #1

Team: Forde, Coleman, Keogh, Wilson, Ward, McGeady, McCarthy, Whelan, Hoolahan, McClean, Long.

3-1 Ireland.

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater · 05-03-2014 7:14pm

I can see this being a tremendously boring encounter, but I hope I'm wrong.

0-0.

cson · 05-03-2014 7:28pm

Really strong Serbian squad. I'd be surprised if we put 3 on them.

CrowdedHouse · 05-03-2014 7:31pm

From FAI Twitter

you heard it here first! Forde, Coleman, Keogh, Wilson, Ward, McGeady, McCarthy, Whelan,Hoolahan,McClean,Long

Mars Bar · 05-03-2014 7:44pm

Requesting streams is breach of charter. Please read the updated sticky thread.

Umpalumpa · 05-03-2014 7:51pm

Gonna go with 2-1 ireland.also pissed off it's not on rte

BNMC · 05-03-2014 7:51pm

Glenn Whelan is captain for the night.

sdanseo · 05-03-2014 8:00pm

A home friendly not free to air, absolute disgrace really. Not like its a big earner.

Mars Bar · 05-03-2014 8:05pm

Sky have the rights to friendlies. RTE can't show them.

8-10 · 05-03-2014 8:06pm

cson wrote: »

Really strong Serbian squad. I'd be surprised if we put 3 on them.

Can you post it?

BobbyPropane · 05-03-2014 8:07pm

****ing Sky.

Anyway interesting squad although would prefer to see someone else in for Ward and maybe Whelan too.

irish bloke · 05-03-2014 8:09pm

Thought john o Shea was starting. Is he injured?

BNMC · 05-03-2014 8:15pm

8-10 wrote: »

Can you post it?

Goalkeepers: Vladimir Stojković (Ergotelis,Greece), Željko Brkić (Udinese,Italy)

Defenders: Antonio Rukavina (Valladolid,Spain), Branislav Ivanović (Chelsea,England), Dušan Basta (Udinese,Italy), Aleksandar Kolarov (Manchester City,England), Nenad Tomović (Fiorentina,Italy), Milan Biševac (Lyon,France)

Midfielders: Radosav Petrović (Genčlerbirligi,Turkey), Nenad Krstičić (Sampdoria,Italy), Ljubomir Fejsa (Benfica,Portugal), Nemanja Matić (Chelsea,England), Adem Ljajić (Roma,Italy), Nemanja Gudelj (AZ Alkmaar,Netherlands), Zoran Tošić (CSKA Moscow,Russia), Dušan Tadić (FC Twente,Netherlands)

Strikers: Lazar Marković (Benfica,Portugal), Miralem Sulejmani (Benfica,Portugal), Stefan Šćepović (Sportnig Gijon,Spain), Filip Đorđević (Nantes,France)

BobbyPropane · 05-03-2014 8:22pm

irish bloke wrote: »

Thought john o Shea was starting. Is he injured?

Played on Sunday and O'Neill said he knows John too much to play him in a friendly

Mr.Nice Guy · 05-03-2014 8:25pm

Keogh and Wilson at centre-back strikes me as really weak. I suppose it's worth experimenting since we are light in that area, but it's not a partnership that fills me with any confidence. Ward at left-back is a bit worrying too.

Serbia's XI according to Sky:

The Serbia team: Stojkovic, Rukavina, Bisevac, Ivanovic, Dordevic, Tadic, Kolarov, Matic, Fejsa, Basta, Markovic.

I think we might be doing well to get a draw here.

05-03-2014 8:31pm

RTE 2 have highlights at 10.30

LostBoy101 · 05-03-2014 8:33pm

Strong Serbia team there. If we go out and perform positive attacking football then I can look forward to booking my tickets to Scotland.

Hank Scorpio · 05-03-2014 8:36pm

Hard to see past Serbia look at it from the players perspective. Hopefully will be a decent match

conor360 · 05-03-2014 8:37pm

Anyone got a link to a stream?

LostBoy101 · 05-03-2014 8:37pm

conor360 wrote: »

Anyone got a link to a stream?

You can't ask for streams, it's against the charter apparently.

conor360 · 05-03-2014 8:40pm

LostBoy101 wrote: »

You can't ask for streams, it's against the charter apparently.

BobbyPropane · 05-03-2014 8:43pm

Whelan is no O'Shea or Keane with the singing.

Captain should surely be singing

BNMC · 05-03-2014 8:45pm

BobbyPropane wrote: »

Whelan is no O'Shea or Keane with the singing.

Captain should surely be singing

Very few singing the anthem there. Looks awful.

GLaDOS · 05-03-2014 8:46pm

Weak enough back 4, expect to see Forde kept busy.

The midfield/attack is probably close enough to our strongest though, be interesting to see how they play.