Republic of Ireland Team 2023/24 [old thread]

Agent Coulson

Unlucky from Egan

D.Q

Hourihane stopping dead to turn and pass behind him.

athlone99

Ah for fe** sake, so unlucky

Mantis Toboggan

Oh that would have been a nice start

ShamoBuc

Mervyn Skidmore wrote: »

Shambolic start so far.

Should be ahead, great effort by Egan.

namloc1980

Fook!

_Kaiser_

Just switched on. Seems a lot better start than the other night?

That Hungarian press will **** us up I'd say

Mervyn Skidmore

ShamoBuc wrote: »

Should be ahead, great effort by Egan.

Yep but before that was a shambles. Starting to get settled in now.

~Rebel~

Good to see another great set piece even if he couldn’t keep it another few inches down. Hopefully will stop being one of the more regular sticks we see getting rattled around here as it’s clearly something there’s been work on.

johnnyryan89

Pauliedragon wrote: »

The Hungary player pointing at the respect badge on his shirt. Was that directed at the Ireland players or the crowd booing? My phone rang I got distracted.

They point at that instead as the fans would probably riot if they took a knee.

lawred2

That playing out from the back is hilariously bad

Mantis Toboggan

Good to see big D back

The White Feather

Hourihane gets a chance to cross with his left foot and barely hits it.

He has to do better than that

Much better passage of play there

D.Q

The White Feather wrote: »

Hourihane gets a chance to cross with his left foot and barely hits it.

He has to do better than that

Can't see any reason for his inclusion.

athlone99

Duffy looks to be playing with a bit of confidence, good to see.

That turn and burst upfield by parrot is exactly what we've been calling for. Excellent

D.Q

Parrott and idah need to pick up the intensity with the press

Francie Barrett

We are so predictable when we try to play out from the back. We are too slow, take far too many touches and give the opposition too much time to box us in and force the mistake.

Mantis Toboggan

What position is knight supposed to be playing?

Francie Barrett

Mantis Toboggan wrote: »

What position is knight supposed to be playing?

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Mervyn Skidmore

Francie Barrett wrote: »

We are so predictable when we try to play out from the back. We are too slow, take far too many touches and give the opposition too much time to box us in and force the mistake.

What bothers me is that they will stick with it come what may. Why not mix it up when it's not working, go long for a few mins to see how that goes, then back to playing it out. Like you said, less predictable.

Pauliedragon

Pauliedragon wrote: »

The Hungary player pointing at the respect badge on his shirt. Was that directed at the Ireland players or the crowd booing? My phone rang I got distracted.

Presume it's some gesture along the lines of "respect for all". So avoid taking the knee in a country with a right wing Government and where BLM probably doesn't have much support.

lawred2

Still a lot of Irish lads standing around when another Irish player is in possession. Just watching on.

eire4

lertsnim wrote: »

Crowd I'd say.

I would assume and hope so.

D.Q

lawred2 wrote: »

Still a lot of Irish lads standing around when another Irish player is in possession. Just watching on.

This is Cullen and hourihane all over. They pretend to show for the ball. Both of them hiding in ****ing central midfield. No wonder nothing is linking up.

ScummyMan

O'Shea's distribution is cat

pjohnson

2 shocking balls from O'Shea

raclle

I cant stand Kenny Cunningham commentating

The White Feather

We had a rocky start then got going but the last few minutes we seem to have lost our way again.

Cullen and Hourihane not doing much and O'Shea keeps giving the ball away

happyoutscan

O'Shea is starting to get on my tits.

tastyt

I think it could be a very painful tournament for Hungary over the next few weeks . They have no attacking threat at all

raclle

tastyt wrote: »

I think it could be a very painful tournament for Hungary over the next few weeks . They have no attacking threat at all

They're also in the group of death

lawred2

For a big man Idah is a bit soft

johnnyryan89

tastyt wrote: »

I think it could be a very painful tournament for Hungary over the next few weeks . They have no attacking threat at all

I assume they're playing more defensive because of who they're playing in the tournament. Don't envy them one bit.

ShamoBuc

Idah with a bit of a twist in the knee, looks sore.

Irish_rat

tastyt wrote: »

They have no attacking threat at all

Same can be said for Ireland

athlone99

Mervyn Skidmore wrote: »

What bothers me is that they will stick with it come what may. Why not mix it up when it's not working, go long for a few mins to see how that goes, then back to playing it out. Like you said, less predictable.

They've gone long a bit more tonight.

Quite comfortable so far. Final ball is terrible and as others have said, the midfield 2 not doing enough

ShamoBuc

Fine save, best they have come up with.

Mantis Toboggan

Nice save by Baz, looks the part

Duff

G'wan Bazza.

Mantis Toboggan

McLean with a few class balls into the box.

lawred2

That's as good a cross as you'll see.

gormdubhgorm

So far has the feel of a game where if you went away for 20 minutes from the screen you would not have missed much.
Ireland at least look reasonably solid and don't look as if they are going to doing anything daft. At least McClean put a decent ball in I suppose.

Unsure how serious Hungary are taking it though, avoiding injuries for Portugal. As Lisa Fallon said in the analysis Hungary are going to play counter attack defensive, particularly with the group they have.

So if Ireland do manage a goal I think it will at least have to be earned.

Francie Barrett

Duffy is looking our most comfortable defender tonight because it looks like he's been told by Kenny to play it long if he needs to. Our best bits of play have been with crosses, set pieces, or going long.

ShamoBuc

Half time 0-0

Playing away from home, to a team that qualified for Euro 2021, a rather partisan home crowd, around 6 under 21's in our team and we are well in this game.

A few positives, a few negatives and a few players that probably shouldn't be there.

Limited them to one real effort and had 1 very good one too.

Have to be pretty happy overall with that first half.

DJIMI TRARORE

Some quality balls going in to the Hungarian box

Kermit.de.frog

On balance Ireland should be ahead. Solid enough.

lawred2

That's not terrible. Reasonably competitive.

I'll take that over anything from the last 5/6 years.