Wales v Ireland

Think winning in Cardiff is a step too far but you never know and it will be some night in the history of Irish football if we can win and get too a playoff or the very very slim outside chance of automatic qualification

Have to agree with others, its a huge ask to win in Cardiff. They are the form team winning their last 3 games conceding none. But in football you never know but I think its more hope than expectation.

If Murphy plays then we'r going long ball and that will suit Wales....mop it up and hit us on the break.....there's just no goals in this Ireland team and that will be our undoing.. A awful draw or Wales 1-0.

0-0 for me. i think the two sides cancel each other out and it's a brutal game. Hope i'm wrong

Green Devil wrote: Maccatacca wrote: t_rAndy wrote: I'd give us more of a chance if Wales only needed a draw and they played with caution and we nicked a goal. The fact that they know they need to win to a) give them an outside chance of topping the group or b) get the last play-off place, I think them needing to win will mean we may get a bit of a battering and Wales can attack. We may be able to hold them off and even get a goal of our own, but they will keep coming the whole game. It kinda has the feeling to me that we are starting from -1 if that makes any sense   I'd love to think we could do it but I think as much as people do not like to admit it, Wales are a better side than us, not as big of a gap without Bale but still a small level up and they are the home side. Turkey are a far better side than Iceland on paper. Look what happened tonight. It's all about attitude. If we're giving up against a strike force of Hal Robson Kanu and Sam Vokes before a ball is kicked, then what's the point in going to a World Cup? We're going into facing Wales with a strike force of Shane Long and Daryl Murphy though.

Yeah, exactly. Wales will fancy their chances and behind the scenes I'd imagine our players very much fancy their own.

We're going over to play Wales in the Cardiff City Staduim, not Germany in the Berlin Olympic Arena.

It's literally two teams who have a mix of poor premier league players, and decent championship players facing off - we shouldn't feel any inferiority.

For sure we shouldn't feel any inferiority towards Wales but I like many others am struggling to see where this performance of ours is going to come from after what can only be described as a horrendous 2017 for this Irish team. 

Maccatacca wrote: t_rAndy wrote: I'd give us more of a chance if Wales only needed a draw and they played with caution and we nicked a goal. The fact that they know they need to win to a) give them an outside chance of topping the group or b) get the last play-off place, I think them needing to win will mean we may get a bit of a battering and Wales can attack. We may be able to hold them off and even get a goal of our own, but they will keep coming the whole game. It kinda has the feeling to me that we are starting from -1 if that makes any sense   I'd love to think we could do it but I think as much as people do not like to admit it, Wales are a better side than us, not as big of a gap without Bale but still a small level up and they are the home side. Turkey are a far better side than Iceland on paper. Look what happened tonight. It's all about attitude. If we're giving up against a strike force of Hal Robson Kanu and Sam Vokes before a ball is kicked, then what's the point in going to a World Cup?

Edited by t_rAndy - 07 Oct 2017 at 12:20am

Maccatacca wrote: JUICEBOMB wrote: Wales can mix there game up though....we have a team (and manager) that play one type of hoofball....that'll be the diffence on Monday Negativity on here is crazy. We won in Vienna, a far more intimidating place to go than a cat championship staduim in Cardiff.

ehh no

I'm not particularly worried about what Wales might do to us at all. I'm confident we can limit their opportunities on goal and so on - the worry i have is that they are a very organised, very solid defensive unit and we suffer from a chronic lack of goals. If we had to get a draw out there i'd be fairly confident we'd do it without much hassle. I don't think we have it in us to break down their defence though.