Republic of Ireland V Switzerland 25th March & Slovakia 29th March 2016 - Friendlies

[Stuttgart88]

Long's first touch was a brilliant piece of improvisation.

And it's complimented

[paul_oshea]

Unless he meant long was getting desert? I think Coleman is our best player on controlling the ball, and i take that from him soloing at speed in Gaelic. He did it again at the weekend. BUt he was brutal for the goal and then tried to blame Stones.

Deloresan - I am not saying there is anything wrong, but people on here were writing about this formation and I fundamentally believe it was wrong. Diamond usually has people thinking its a lone forward and the head of the diamond(technically a diamond has much more than 4 sides, but thats another story ) is the extra midfielder/number 10/auxilliary forward. BUt we didnt play that, we played the midfielders all playing in the diamond and "moving/roving" in the shape of a diamond and switching around but keeping the diamond shape. The strikers played off that. So your 1-2-1-2 is the most accurate but I saw previously people mentioning the 5 combination in midfield and its interchangeable numbers - which was wrong.

[AlanOB]

I did like the way he complemented Long on his first touch for the Germany goal. I've actually read somewhere that it was a clumsy first touch that worked out well for him. I think it was Balls.ie. Nuff said I suppose!

As I did in my brilliantly written article that everyone should read and I'm in no way promoting......

....Niles.

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