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rebelbrowser
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That was the first u21 match I saw in full so I am hardly well positioned to judge, but thought Lee O Connor was MOTM.
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John Nice
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Parrott shouldn't have started, you don't reward players for missing chances! But surely Ogbene must have had a knock!
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SeaSharp
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I don’t see much in Smallbone tbh. He has flashes where it looks like there’s a player in there but he seems to drift out of games far too much, can’t get away with it as a midfielder. Azaz on the other hand.. now there’s a potential dark horse for the Euros campaign. It’d probably require seismic club form but I’m looking forward to seeing more of him.
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John Nice
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Seriously? He was hooked cos he survived another stupid challenge while on a yellow, it's his modus operandi. He was also pretty poor actually playing football during the game. He's a useful squad player for a certain type of game, not vs a low block and his propensity for a card will always make him high risk. We have a paucity of options in midfield and for that reason, we need him, but he's not particularly good or clever!
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John Nice
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Everyone's poster boy collins was up the pitch trying to get himself a goal rather than doing his job, the whole team thought they had the game won, amateur hour from pretty much the lot of them, but jesus, Hourihane, just why?
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John Nice
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Score 3 for the U21s in 2 games less than 6 months ago
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John Nice
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Crawford shouldn't have Smallbone running around like Jason Molumby, that's not his game, he finds half spaces, plays clever balls and has a great strike on him. He is by far the closest thing we have to a ten. Azaz did indeed look promising tonight, would like to see more of him. Will has to be in the next squad tho, if ye all insist we have to play 532 even vs average teams then he's best placed to be that 3rd midfielder. Knight was horrendous tonight!
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kevin100
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I don't disagree with you he is rash at times and that sort of thing will happen again with him. Needs to curb it. It is not a coincidence things went to pot gradually after he was hooked. Stand by that. Also he was didn't waste much possession but isn't ever going to break lines passing for fun. As for the last part hence my alternative of sorts comment. He has potential for sure but that temper is going to hold him back.
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kevin100
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The one time Smallbone actually got involved a bit tonight was when Azaz came on. He actually had a player to link up with. When Smallbone went off Azaz actually suffered a bit for it too. This is for the other thread obviously but Israel deserved it tonight can't have complaints they could have felt very hard done by not qualifyin. Gutted for the lads but only one team were trying to win that game of football tonight. We weren't off a yard in extra time despite it being blatantly obvious Israel were the more jaded team.
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GreenDodger93
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GreenDodger93
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Bazunu should've done better for the 2nd and honestly I thought he should have been able to palm the first shot for the first goal wide as opposed to onto the post... but he saved it so I'll let that away. The 2nd though he's gotta stop.
I don't get the criticism of Doherty, thought he had a very good first halt but definitely quieter second. People saying he was sh*te?!?! Back 3 we're fine. Collin very good in the first half, got ahead of himself slightly in the second. Brady was ok? Didn't really cement anything over McClean
I've been a strong critic of Molumby but f**k me does he ever get stuck in. We instantly looked more susceptible when he went off. Hendrick was ok. Knight has had a poor window. Obafemi was brilliant, I'm not sure I've seen many quicker players over 5-10 yards. Parrott I said needed dropping after Scotland and I feel even stronger now. |
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shakeyshamrock
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a lot of people very upset that we won it seems
some team for last minute goals
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BrendanD88
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That’s exactly it! You can tell there are so many raging we got a late winner! Complete freaks.
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John Nice
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He's the best option for promotion from the 21's,along with Connolly. Azaz might be another. Coventry is miles off, game as you like, but that's it. Cashin looks decent but we have plenty of CB'S. Ebosele is a maybe mainly down to pace, the rest, meh! Lyons if he can get a run at Blackpool could improve. Ferguson not ready yet!
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Baldrick
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Agreed I couldn’t care what she looks like as it’s irrelevant or that she is a woman as again having a mix across all sports coverage is healthy, however I think she is a poor presenter and is dour in her style and brings no level of entertainment or journalistic integrity to it either. Stephen Kelly is abysmal also and Given is not much better either. Darragh Maloney with Brady Sadlier and Hamman should be the setup in my view. Good
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GreenDodger93
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For 70 mins we were in complete control, probably should've had at least 3 goals but we got 2. What exactly do people expect from a team of young championship players?
Out of nowhere they score 2 long range goals, 1 of which was a mistake from the keeper. From there we got a little desperate and ragged but managed to find a winner. I'd typically say we got lucky to win that kind of peno but considering the exact same type of peno was given against us just a couple days ago I don't give a f**k and will take it all day. The fact Armenia scored twice with an XG of 0.17 says everything.
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kevin100
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The 0.17 XG I didn't think it would be that low. It was the type of thing that would only happen to us isn't it. The U21 game the same just nothing happening for Irish football at the moment beyond the get out of jail we got tonight.
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Baldrick
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Shut up with your common sense and facts. We were in control and by no means great but much better than we were in many games against smaller teams under Kenny and McCarthy and O Neill. Not great but descent. Then Hourihane has a brain fart both for the first goal and the 2nd goal. Bazunu is poor for both goals in my view and Hendrick is leggy for the first. I would blame Kenny for having a midfield of Hendrick and Hourihane and Knight on the pitch. It was complacent and against a decent side it would get destroyed and against a poor side it got punished albeit by long range efforts. We need to make sure that our midfield always has legs in it and for that reason Hourihane should never play again and Hendrick needs Molumby beside him if he ever plays. Other than Cullen we have no tactical no 6 who will hold the centre of the park and protect the centre backs. That’s esp important when collins likes to underlay And overlap. Hourihane our holding player put in the cross straight to the keeper and then didn’t have the legs to get back in place to stop a slow enough counter attack. Hendrick was also turned and without much effort they were straight in on our defence. All in all a mixed bag tonight but Kenny needs to be selfish and cut the lads who can’t play the style he wants of high intensity high press attacking football. It’s going to need a further cull of slow leggy players like Hourihane.
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