Serbia v Republic of Ireland Match Thread - K.O 19.45 24/03/21 - Mod Note in OP

Fair play to Serbia, they deserve this

pjohnson

Serbia hopefully calling it a day by hooking Tadić.

breezy1985

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Mitrovic is a machine

2 excellent one touch goals

Fromvert

A good keeper catches that, Travers running after the ball like a puppy.

Also, Tadic just given all the time in the world to pick his cross.

Francie Barrett

ctrl-alt-delete wrote: »

Traversty again.

It was a loose ball from Cullen that opened us up.

Travers not great, but let's not scapegoat the kid.

The White Feather

I think bringing on Hendrick was a bad move. I thought Molumby was doing okay. We lost our way for a bit after that sub.

Just took a while to settle back into things and we gave the second goal away then.

Witcher

Absolutely disgraceful

happyoutscan

Irish_rat wrote: »

Keeper cost us all 3 goals

Howd he cost us the first?

10000maniacs

Bring back Stan, all is forgiven.
We are now proudly League One standard.

tayto lover

mzungu wrote: »

It was two against one for that header. We need to do better there.

Our central defenders are too small.

athlone99

Keeper has had a poor game but its his 3rd start for Ireland, not playing alot at club level and buckled up the pressure it happens. Id only blame him for the 2nd.

ShamNNspace

pjohnson wrote: »

Christ we'll probably be looking at League of Ireland. Our first 2 keepers are only back ups.

I don't care keeping is a funny trade

happyoutscan

10000maniacs wrote: »

Bring back Stan, all is forgiven.
We are now proudly League One standard.

Go to bed.

Oat23

Bit depressing that all 3 of Serbia's forward options would walk into our team and be our best player.

Weepsie

Clark has been not very good. Mistakes for all 3 goals

Mantis Toboggan

1 shot on target in 80 minutes against an average Serbia team, not good enough.

athlone99

10000maniacs wrote: »

Bring back Stan, all is forgiven.
We are now proudly League One standard.

We have been poor for a long time.

gormdubhgorm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Mitrovic is a machine

Second goal was a typical goal from him, contrast to the first one.Ireland’s heads dropped now. More goals for Serbia if they want them is my feeling.

cj maxx

TheCitizen wrote: »

Keeper totally out of his depth, but what was the options?

I know, not his fault we have no-one more experienced

UDAWINNER

Ah well, we won't be going to Qatar 2022, joke of a team
Fcuk Kenny, he's useless, he should go now, resign

tom1ie

Oat23 wrote: »

If I were to guess it might be because in some confederations they cannot/have not implemented VAR yet so to have a level playing field it cannot be used anywhere.

Yeah good point.
I wonder would we have got that peno if VAR was in though. Ah well doesn’t matter now.

pjohnson

O'Hara should start the next game anyway. Can't do worse anyway.

My name is URL

I'm trying to find a few positives here but am legit struggling

Mr.Nice Guy

Keeper's an easy scapegoat. Problems run deeper than that.

Bazunu's had a few clangers at Rochdale as well. We're very short on options when Randolph isn't around.

ScummyMan

10000maniacs wrote: »

Bring back Stan, all is forgiven.
We are now proudly League One standard.

Isn't it past your bedtime? School tomorrow

noodler

So to get second now, we need to be perfect (except Vs Portugal) and also beat Serbia by two goals at home?

(Assuming Serbia also lose both games to Portugal).

MrMusician18

Surely Kenny will go now?

10000maniacs

10000maniacs wrote: »

Bring back Stan, all is forgiven.
We are now proudly League One standard.

What does then even mean? I don’t think even one of our starting 11 is in League 1? We’ve been undone by an individual error and top notch finishing

ctrl-alt-delete

Francie Barrett wrote: »

It was a loose ball from Cullen that opened us up.

Travers not great, but let's not scapegoat the kid.

Keeper is the last line though, I'd still want him better positioned and saving that. He was too far out again to allow it loop over him.

sheroman01

Never take anything too seriously on these threads - lads blaming Travers for all 3 goals. Jaysus. Shows the level of knowledge of the posters on here.

PabloAndRoy

Fecking Mitrovic can't score a goal for Fulham. Not even getting a start he's been so poor. Comes on here, two touches, two goals.

Poor keeping. I really feel for the lad. Real thrown in at the deep end stuff.

edgecutter

Mantis Toboggan wrote: »

1 shot on target in 80 minutes against an average Serbia team, not good enough.

If they're average than what the hell is the standard of our team?

Most of Serbia's team play for clubs that are in the top divisions in Europe.

My name is URL

MrMusician18 wrote: »

Surely Kenny will go now?

Not a chance of it. Who wants the job rn do you think?

10000maniacs

ScummyMan wrote: »

Isn't it past your bedtime? School tomorrow

Joke already cracked. Get original.

Amirani

Mantis Toboggan wrote: »

1 shot on target in 80 minutes against an average Serbia team, not good enough.

Disagree, we played well enough away to a good Serbia team outside of the defensive/keeping errors.

Mantis Toboggan

Hard to see us qualifying from this group now.

Sawduck

This is possibly the worst Ireland team in years, we will struggle big time in this group, can't see us at the next world Cup

pjohnson

I think Dara O'Shea has done well.

MrMusician18

sheroman01 wrote: »

Never take anything too seriously on these threads - lads blaming Travers for all 3 goals. Jaysus. Shows the level of knowledge of the posters on here.

He was definitely to blame for no. 2 and the performance feel apart from that.

noodler

Have to say, think we were denied a fairly clear pen at 1-1

TheCitizen

noodler wrote: »

Nah.

But the second was the heartbreaker and be has to take 100% blame for that.

He wasn't great for the third either. He's out of his depth but we've no one better.

noodler

TheCitizen wrote: »

He wasn't great for the third either. He's out of his depth but we've no one better.

Like the first, he scrambled weirdly position wise - looks weird. But looking at where the header actually went? Nah, I don't see a keeper getting to that tbf.

Underground

They've ex Real Madrid lads coming off the bench, we've James Collins.

spurshero

MrMusician18 wrote: »

Surely Kenny will go now?

Go where . Look at what we have to pick from . This is his first full campaign give the guy a chance at least

My name is URL

Jesus christ... can't even put a cross in

Mitrovic has as many league goals for his club (2) this entire season as Shane "very Long odds to score" Long

Bags 2 here against Ireland

2 good goals obviously

Nerdlingr

Cullen I think it was gave away the ball for the third goal there. Tried to play it short to Long and undercooked it. Send it over the top FFS..that's what hes there for, to chase things.

tom1ie

MrMusician18 wrote: »

Surely Kenny will go now?

Sacking kenny after the first game of a new campaign would be nuts especially when we were denied a stonewall peno and playing well away from home to a team with high quality players.
I mean look at their subs!

athlone99

Anyone who thinks sacking the manager will change anything knows nothing about football

edgecutter

I am actually staggered that there are posters in here who think thought we had a chance to qualify for the World Cup. Lads it isn't the early 2000s anymore!