Delighted for Wales I have to say. Nearly men for a long time and some great players never played at the World Cup as a result. 64 years is a long time.
Ukraine will be a stern test on Wednesday, although it won't be easy for them to pick themselves up so quickly
Ukraine will play substitutes on Wednesday. They are mentally drained. They are a dirty bunch did a lot of dark arts today, Well done Wales some Celtics will be there, and there are a lot in Patagonia, where I heard Bale has some family
Which member of bales family? Always thought he looked a bit Latin.
Hmmm, writing off the Ukrainians?Quote:
Originally Posted by CSAD
Yeah indeed, Bale looks italian, he needs to use his hands more while talking like De Niro or Pacino, at least he can curse opposition in Spanish after all those years in Madrid. The food in Galicia "wales" is really good too!Quote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
But there are some irish too who look like Italian doppelgangers Brian Kerr, Colin Farrell and Gerry Adams, Alec Baldwin to name a few from football Ryan Manning looks from Calabria, (Ringo Manningo in italian), also Dolo O'Riordan (rip) too, she looked like a napolitana ragazze.
It is my opinion but I guess most Celtic people look very Italian, French, spanyiard, Greek, I mean Mediterranean. Its only my opinion.
But in seriousness on the national team of Ireland I'm quite sure you will defeat Ukraine next Wednesday, I have never been so sure about a football result. Some of you said that he needs to get some results and pronto or else, he will get the sack.
My opinion is that Kenny other option is start bringing the youngsters and a few veterans, a la Wales.
Greeting and I am always rooting for Ireland, I hope you Irish good people root for Argentina in November, Mexico vs Argentina is already sold out I read
kenny needs to take advantage of the Scotland Ukraine situation, never a better scenario,
I sense Republic to prevail. 1-0 2-1
Tets instead of merging posts there were other better options available there :)
I will post the link on Wednesday for Ireland vs Ukraine. Armenia vs Ireland was broadcasted 10 am Saturday morning.Quote:
Originally Posted by Razors left peg
Ireland will defeat Ukraine, mark my words.
You've been warned before about multiplie posts Bielsa. Next time use the edit button or I'll delete all of them
Viva ls Mexico!
Bazunu out of the squad; Talbot called up as a replacement
(FAI Twitter)
I reckon a full strength motivated Ukraine will give us a very hard time. They were far too good for Scotland, for 80 minutes anyway. The Wales game was a bit mad though. Despite dominating the stats I think Ukraine were mainly well-contained by Wales and Wales had some of the better chances, not least the Ramsey chance which he tried to be too deliberate with. Wales also hit the post but I think the keeper had it covered.
On the other hand when Ukraine found their sense of urgency they impressed me with their build up play. You'd expect a VAR review to award that penalty to Ukraine all day long imho - but you could say it wasn't the result of Ukraine's overall play earning a penalty. In real time the late Hennessy save looked great but on replay you can see that he really only stuck out an arm, diving after he palmed the ball to get purchase on it and to clear his feet. Poor header in hindsight. Ukraine had a few dangerous pinball moments in Wales box and Wales put in some brave blocks. Each team could have scored 2 or 3, as it was Wales scored one very fortunate goal. We need to be able to win games like that, like Wales did, and I don't see it happening without a proven matchwinner.
Well, the goalkeeper's likely to be far busier against Ukraine than Kelleher was against Armenia.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Do we stick with him or reward Travers for an outstanding season?
To be honest, I'd like to see Travers see action in at least one of the upcoming matches.
We must play a 9. Smallbone in the team please, Lee O'Connor is great for me, Bagan too. Manning in midfield . Parrott in the hole .
I'd generally agree (I would have given all three regulars playing time in March) but I wonder if we are going to change the defence around to deal with four games in June, does it make more sense to keep the keeper behind them consistent?Quote:
Originally Posted by Trequartista20
As has been pointed it before, the U21s are in a position to reach the play offs now, if not qualify directly. With their final game on the same night at the Ukrainian away game, I doubt any player will be promoted, and risk that. Mandriou has been stated as being on standby.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bielsa´s irish
I think Travers deserves a game. I think Kenny is going to stick with Kelleher though and, howlers from the Liverpool man aside, Bazunu won't get straight back in.
My gut feeling is that most people (including Kenny) very much view Travers as third choice still and that, on some level, Kenny would prefer not to complicate things further for himself. In just a few months you potentially have a situation where Travers is playing week in week out in the PL and the case for him not starting for Ireland won't be helped if he's given a good account of himself in international games in the interim.
Wonder if Ukraine will take a leaf out of Armenia's book. Maybe sit back to conserve energy and force us to try break them down and pick us off on the counter. They've still got two games to play after us.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Under normal circumstances we would be expecting to beat Ukraine at home, especially given their tough build up to this game. It's just that expectations have been dragged so low under the current management.
I still think we should win and we need it. Our rankings are falling off a cliff. I think we're 52nd on the current in running rankings. We should be freshening up our team as we have 4 games in a short period, Ukraine will be wrecked from the week they've had and other circumstances. I'm going for a 2-1 Ireland win. Let's go!!!
BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!!
Going purely by statistics, it's going to take take something pretty extraordinary to win this one.
If we do manage to win it would be our first home competitive win over a higher ranked team since the play-off defeat of Bosnia in 2015 - more than six and a half years ago - and our first home competitive win of any description since we beat Gibraltar three years ago.