Aiden McGeady out of Sunderland's pre-season action for another couple of weeks - calf injury (Sunderland Echo).
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Aiden McGeady out of Sunderland's pre-season action for another couple of weeks - calf injury (Sunderland Echo).
Reading a few West Ham sites and Josh Cullen seems to be set to stay with them. He was on a list of players to be moved on but is after impressing Pellegrini in training so far.
Came on after 60 minutes so well done to him - https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2018/j...t-liverpool-h/ - not only that, within fifteen minutes of coming on, Liverpool had scored twice - the outfielders must have felt more secure with him between the sticks than Karius! Suddenly that GBP66.8m is starting to look like an unnecessary panic buy!Quote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
On the other side, Derrick Williams and Darragh Lenihan helped keep Liverpool scoreless for an hour, and within 15 minutes of them going off, Blackburn had conceded twice!
Brighton played a 'behind closed doors' friendly against Harry Kewell's Crawley Town on 20 July. 30 mins each way, Brighton won 3 -0, Richie Towell played the full hour.
Burnley split their Irish sextet between two friendlies today. There was a welcome return for Robbie Brady, who played alongside Stephen Ward and Jon Walters against Curzon Ashton. Walters was on the scoresheet, while a Brady corner set up another goal: https://www.burnleyfootballclub.com/...ton-v-burnley/. Meanwhile Jeff Hendrick, Kevin Long and Jimmy Dunne lined out against Macclesfield - good to see young Dunne continuing to play a part: https://www.burnleyfootballclub.com/...-on-20-jul-18/
Great for Dunne. I know Accrington were (and maybe.are) very keen to get him back for their season in League One. It will be interesting to see if he ends up there, a Championship club or maybe Burnley for the season.
Preston NE v West Ham 21 July
Browne and Horgan start for PNE, Maguire and Burke on the bench. Rice starts for for West Ham, Cullen and Coventry named as subs.
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Originally Posted by Olé Olé
Up until now, Dunne, Hoban, Cullen and Nolan seemed to be the young players to watch in top tiers this pre-season, but then today Chris Hughton gave sub appearances to Daniel Mandroiu and Aaron Connolly, with Connolly winning the penalty that Brighton scored from. Richie Towell also came on in the second half. Unfortunately, Shane Duffy went off with an injury after 21 minutes: https://www.brightonandhovealbion.co...-on-21-jul-18/Quote:
Originally Posted by Olé Olé
Meanwhile, Tyreke Wilson did make it to the bench for Man City's tie with Borussia Dortmund, but didn't come on - still quite an achievement, given that there's about a million players in the squad - hopefully it's a sign that he's close to a breakthrough, if not with City themselves, then via a decent loan: https://www.mancity.com/news/first-t...report-21-july
Speaking of Ryan Nolan, he was an unused sub in Inter's 3-3 draw with Zenit St. Petersburg: https://www.inter.it/en/news/63461/i...st-petersburg-
And in other news about young Irish footballers called Ryan, Ryan Manning scored a late equaliser for QPR against Champions-League-Bound Hoffenheim: https://www.qpr.co.uk/fixtures/first...fenheim-v-qpr/
Conor Hourihane started for Villa in their 4-0 win over Burton, Glenn Whelan and Jake Doyle Hayes were introduced in the second half
The game is available on YouTube if you really want to watch it
I work with Tyreke Wilson's aunt and he got an infection in his toe so they were all worried he might not get game time over there. They seem like a lovely family and he sounds like a really good lad too. She doesn't know much about football but reading between the lines from what she was saying City want to get him a loan to a championship team and they seemed to have turned down offers from some clubs.Quote:
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Caoimhin Kelleher was on the bench again for Liverpool. This time, though it was their other underage keeper, Kamil Grabara, who got to replace Karius - shipped three goals though (that said, it was against Dortmund) - https://www.theguardian.com/football...log-navigation
In what might set a record for Irish players on the pitch in a game not involving any Irish teams, Burnley are playing Preston tonight at Deepdale.
Preston: Robinson, Burke and Maguire start, Browne and Horgan are on the bench.Quote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
(Boyle, Doyle, O'Connor and O'Reilly missing)
Burnley: Hendrick and Ward start, Walters, Long and Dunne are on the bench.
(Brady missing)
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GOAL PNE!
Really well worked goal from the Lilywhites as Graham Burke regained possession wide right with an interception before feeding Maguire on the opposite flank. He cut back inside and played Josh Harrop into space in the box, who converted coolly into the far bottom left corner!
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Goal Burnley.
Aaron Lennon the goalscorer after Burnley got to the byline with Hendrick having his initial shot blocked from closer range, before the ball fell nicely for the winger on the edge of the box and he lashed it home with an emphatic first time strike.
Doesn't look like this trio are part of Alex Neil's plans - Boyle and Doyle should probably be looking for a move to a decent League One team; O'Connor, as he's still only 23, could try to get another loan move to build on.Quote:
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3-2 win for Burnley - Callum Robinson scored Preston's second, while Jon Walters set up Burnley's: https://www.burnleyfootballclub.com/...end-v-burnley/
Not sure. The Arsenal team of the 1970s had 5 or 6 Irish players which could have been facing another team with 3 Irish players.Quote:
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Something tells me Tets isn't just going to treat that as a throwaway reply and will revert with the appropriate statistics.
Was ever so slightly tongue in cheek
I reckon a Villa v Man City game in 93-94 would have to be close. Likely we had 7 full internationals on the pitch if it was before Quinner did his knee.
Staunton
Mcgrath
Townsend
Houghton
Phelan
Kernaghan
Quinn
The F.A. Cup final in 1979 included eight starters and a manager from the island of Ireland. I know that doesn't count but still! - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_FA_Cup_Final
Villa Park (3) - http://www.skysports.com/football/a-...an-city/275973Quote:
Originally Posted by backstothewall
Maine Road (2) - http://www.skysports.com/football/ma...a-villa/276043
https://twitter.com/irish_abroad/sta...39984278982656
Tets has it covered last year and his research may have been used for this article but hard to prove:
http://www.the42.ie/tracing-the-marg...omment-6400713
Of course that was Premier League, briefly before that game, Tets again had done the research for other divisions:
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Norris is a bit of a stretch, he was supposed to have been scouted by Staunton, but either he refused the call up, or he wasn't eligible
Richie Towell started in Brighton's 1 -1 draw away to Charlton, but was injured after 36 mins and substituted.
Hopefully not serious - promising news that Hughton started him. Mandroiu and Connolly came on as second-half subs for the second game in a row, which is also promising - Connolly had a couple of chances saved by the Charlton keeper: https://www.brightonandhovealbion.co...lton-athletic/Quote:
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Having signed for Sheffield united mere hours before, David McGoldrick scored in the 1-1 draw with Inter - CALL HIM BACK UP, MON!! John Egan and Enda Stevens also played for United, while Ryan Nolan was an unused sub for Inter: https://www.inter.it/en/news/63487/i...ld-with-a-draw
Towell has back trouble, it seems; club more concerned about Locadia, who has a groin strain.
Jake Doyle-Hayes started for Villa alongside Conor Hourihane and Glenn Whelan as they took on a West Ham team, for whom Declan Rice played the first half and Josh Cullen was a second-half sub
https://www.whufc.com/news/articles/...ston-villa-win
Caoimhin Kelleher - anyone know anything about him? On the bench for Liverpool tonight in their friendly against Manchester City.
Young goalkeeper from cork. Highly rated by Klopp according to report last season: http://www.punditarena.com/football/...-kelleher/amp/ Nice to see him get some preseason game time at his young age.Quote:
Originally Posted by Colbert Report
His brother Fiacre is a center half moved to Celtic when younger, now with oxford. Did well on loan with solihull in conference last season, but unfortunately has already been farmed out in another season long loan to league 2 newcomers Macclesfield, augurs not well at age of 22. You never know though, tall uncompromising center half
Thanks for the heads-up - great to see that he replaced Karius for the second-half and appears to have done well, making at least one good save as Liverpool went on to win 2-1; https://www.liverpoolfc.com/match/20...-2018-day-fiveQuote:
Originally Posted by Colbert Report
Kelleher is a young Irish keeper (age 19) who has underage caps under his belt - I saw him on a highlights package on the FAI site for an U-17s game, I think, a few years ago and he looked raw but made a couple of remarkable saves. Liverpool signed him up a little while after and he's been alternating between their U18 and U23 teams in competition with a young Polish keeper called Kamil Grabara, who played the second half against Borussia Dortmund recently. Kelleher also played the second half against Blackburn recently so this should be a cause for excitement, particularly as Liverpool are shedding goalies -Danny Ward sold to Leicester, Adam Bogdan on season-long loan to Hibs and either Mignolet or Karius likely to be sold also.
However, his position does mitigate any belief that he'll see significant action soon, as he's not going to get run-outs in the last 20 minutes of a game, like an outfielder can - if he's not first-choice, he'll have to wait for either an injury or major loss of form to the first-choice, which brings us to the other reason why we can't get as excited about his appearances as we might - Alisson
Still, it's quite an achievement to play twice in a pre-season for the Liverpool first team at the age of 19, the second game in front of 52,000 against Man City (and get two wins under your belt). So hopefully it's a sign that he'll get competitive first-team football sooner rather than later, either with a loan move or some game-time in the cups this season.
For now here's the save he made tonight:
https://youtu.be/AVnLWNZcV9o?t=201
http://www.punditarena.com/football/...es-bayern-bow/
One to watch. Think Sweden are hovering though.
Luxembourg have him, apparently they are paying him big bucks to stay, seen as their potential gem
Villa have been putting their preseason games on YouTube, here's the West Ham gameQuote:
Originally Posted by samhaydenjr
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I thought he had declared for Sweden? He appeared for their U16s last year according to transfermarkt, but they were only friendliesQuote:
Originally Posted by Cathalsmart
That article says his mother is Swedish and father Irish. It's the other way around?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bungle
And how could Luxembourg pay him money to stay with them?