Denmark v Ireland - Match Thread

TonyDenmark wrote: According to Danish media Christensen is playing right back instead of Ankersen.  Poulsen will play instead of Jørgensen who was annoyed by his broken wrist. A Danish journalist/ex-footballer counted the minutes Ireland "wasted" in Copenhagen: 22 minutes and 47 seconds (Substitutions not included).

TonyDenmark wrote: According to Danish media Christensen is playing right back instead of Ankersen.  Poulsen will play instead of Jørgensen who was annoyed by his broken wrist. A Danish journalist/ex-footballer counted the minutes Ireland "wasted" in Copenhagen: 22 minutes and 47 seconds (Substitutions not included).

May I suggest that was a waste of the journalists time

I read the doubt from some here and from the RTE panel that we have to play football to win on Tuesday. We don't. We need to outscore the opposition no matter how we do it. I'll take 89 or 119 minutes of nullifying the Danes and a last minute winner all day long if it gets us to a WC finals. Even penalties in our favour.

I just hope we qualify.

keith3307 wrote: Sisto being quoted as saying Ireland have difficulty playing soccer. Hopefully hes proved wrong Tuesday.

With they way we played, all the long-balls, I think it would have made more sense to play Long instead of O'Dowda, as he could have supported Murphy. But whatever, we got what we went there for.

The Danes did look down after the game, so hopefully they are thinking that they've blown their chance.

And compared to Serbia or Wales, they look a less formidable opponent.

A home game against a Danish team that doesn't compare to the teams they've had in the past, we probably won't get a better chance at qualifying for a World Cup.

We can complain about O'Neill's tactics, but when push comes to shove he has delivered on the results front. If he gets the team up for it like he did with Germany and Italy, then we should qualify.

Trap junior wrote: Strazdas wrote: Trap junior wrote: I'm less confident now than I was before the game. I don't fancy us now. One poxy deflection or goal comceded and we will be out. Cant see us scoring twice. Still have a great chance obviously but just think 0-0 was a much better result for them than us. We were just as worried about the away goal with Bosnia two years ago. A lot of the talk here after the first leg was about extra time and the possibility of the game going to penalties. We should be a bit more positive - a lot of countries would love to be in the position of playing in a 50,000 seater stadium at home knowing a win would qualify them. We had an away goal ourselves so an away goal from them only equaled it up. I had no fear. This time I do have fear. I fancy it to finish 1-1.

Trap junior wrote: I'm less confident now than I was before the game. I don't fancy us now. One poxy deflection or goal comceded and we will be out. Cant see us scoring twice. Still have a great chance obviously but just think 0-0 was a much better result for them than us.

I'm less confident now than I was before the game. I don't fancy us now. One poxy deflection or goal comceded and we will be out. Cant see us scoring twice. Still have a great chance obviously but just think 0-0 was a much better result for them than us.