Early goal - Melia after 4 minutes
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Early goal - Melia after 4 minutes
Now 2-0 Melia again.
Italy - Cyprus is on at the same time, which is a little odd for a games that are not the final round of fixtures
Italy currently leading 1-0
Live stream on Cyprus' YouTube channel
italy in white?
Mason Melia gets his hat trick. Still only 15 so underage again next season for the 17s.
Red card for captain Turley, eleven minutes to go.
not ideal considering Grante was injured in the warm up before the italy game. italy currently winning 2-1, so decent chance we could win the group
Ireland beat Ukraine 3-0 and Italy beat Cyprus 2-1
That more or less qualifies us for the u17 Euros just as long as we get a point versus Cyprus.
Was looking back and saw I posted this during the victory shield:
Kinda impressed that the 5 lads i highlighted from that squad all made the jump up an age group and the 6th lad was one of the 3 i also mentioned.Quote:
Originally Posted by elatedscum
I think we can't finish lower than second now.Quote:
Originally Posted by CSAD
Assuming a win in the final game on Monday, Italy would need to beat Ukraine by two goals more than we beat Cyprus to top the group.
if ukraine beat italy by 1 and cyprus beat us by 4?Quote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
If we were to lose badly to Cyprus and Ukraine win we could finish 3rd theoretically.Quote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
If we come 2nd then we will have 4 points when it comes to qualification and a GD of 3 which based on the last 2 u17 euros would rank us as the best runner up, we only have to finish in the top 7 of 8 to qualify as a runner up, even if we don’t finish as the best runner up we should more than enough to qualify as a runner up should we get a point versus Cyprus. Granted we should be aiming to win judging by how the group has gone so far!
We should only be thinking about winning the group from here. Great win today by the sounds of it.
game starting on the cyprus youtube. babb comes in at the back for turley. Orazi starting on the wing over Kone-Doherty
Live stream here
Lineups and text commentary here: https://www.uefa.com/under17/match/2...and-vs-cyprus/
Kone-Doherty not in the squad at all, might not be recovered fully from the injury he's carrying
Just bounced one off the bar from about 22 yds and then butchered a subsequent 1v1 and 3v2.
0-0 22mins gone.
Butchered another incredible chance in front of goal on 30 mins after great play to create the chance. Not sure I've seen an Irish side this fluid before at this age-group (yes, Including that side).
Edit. Another one missed. this side is awesome. cyprus less so
Messed up that corner too.
Have to score one of these soon
Cyprus twice dangerous through the middle and very close to an opening chance. Ireland need to be patient. A goal will come.
Cyprus 1-0. Stupid ****ing goal from our own throw-in. Awesome finish but keeper shopuldn't be beaten from that angle.
Shouldn't be scoring from that angle and with that amount of bodies in the box.
Goal for Cyprus. Ball given away poorly by Babb before the 17 scored from a ridiculous angle.
Italy 1-0 up on Ukraine approaching ht.
The irish formation is really interesting, it’s like a fluid 4-2-4 with Razi given the freedom to push right up from No.10 when he wants, Kehir sometimes dropping back deeper as midfielder, Melia or Razi occasionally dropping wide tight as well
Will be interested to see how they react to the goal. Should have been 4-0 up by then.
It's clear ireland are the better side, and much stronger in use of the ball - but Cyprus have worked through us very well at times. It's not as if they've just sat back and had one breakaway.Quote:
Originally Posted by elatedscum
The stream and highlights is excellent.
Yeah - irish keeper made a great save after 10 mins, there was a Babb clearance in the air that was dangerous and the through ball that the keeper came out and claimed - so they were always a threat from our mistakes or from the break.
But there was probably 10 equivalent chances for us
Looks like we're making a change. Akachukwu is warming up intensively with a coach on the line. Niall McAndrews gone off
The way Ireland have managed this game has been incredibly poor. Just aimless balls around the park and passing to no one and forcing passes. Cyprus scoring was the perfect storm for us as now they will just fight for every ball now which will make our challenge way harder than it needed to be.
Harnett comes off injured at right back. I think the fact both Grante and Turley are missing has a lot to do with why we look so vulnerable with that ball down the middle.
Akachukwu just wide with a strike, you just know if Cyprus had hit it they would have scored judging by how the game has gone so far.
That Razi free kick just sums up the whole performance.
Razi really should pass that freekick. O’Sullivan was played onside and so so open
Calamity of errors leading to that last shot by Cyprus
I’ve lost count the amount of misplaced passes, aimless long balls and the amount times the Cypriot defense has just taken the ball off our players with ease… just based on all that I can’t say I’m that sympathetic that we are losing and we are lucky it isn’t 2-0 after that chance.
And after all that we score from a cracking free kick!
I disagree that they aren't managing the game . I think they are still playing remarkably well (albeit not as well as the first) for a side who are probably cacking it. They've not resorted to hoofing and are still going through the formations, It's impressive.
Edit, Cyprus should have just scored a second.
Italy are only 1 up and look unlikely to get the 3 goals required meaning just get one more and we win the groupz
Yessss! A peach of a free kick.
Jesus we are some mess at the back.