Spinning the discussion from the play off thread into a match thread
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Spinning the discussion from the play off thread into a match thread
Tuesday 14th in Dublin. Saturday 11th in Copenhagen.
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Originally Posted by FAI
Flights to Copenhagen just shot up by €200 in the past fifteen minutes..
Anyone know anything about the Danish forwards? dont really know any of the squad apart from Bentner who is Pony and Erickson who is a great little player. They have a lad at RD Leipzip who seems to be doing well?? Apart from that pretty similar to us, Championship players plus a few from the lower teams in Germany/Spain
Little piece about Denmark here that mentions their striking options - https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soc...yoff-1.3259311Quote:
Originally Posted by Park_Lane
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Hareide has used three strikers in these recent games with two big men, Andreas Cornelius of Atalanta and Feyenoord’s Nicolai Jorgense becoming key players for the coach along with the much smaller Pione Sisto. Others have played their part with Thomas Delaney getting three goals in Armenia but Christian Eriksen is by far the most important of all with the Tottenham midfielder picking up many of the loose balls from the play in front of him and scoring a lot of important goals.
Kasper Schmeichel, arguably one of the top goalkeepers in the Premier League.Quote:
Originally Posted by Park_Lane
Simon Kjaer is a top centre half. He's certainly better than anything we have, but he's not exactly getting many games at Sevilla at the minute.
Their midfield is where they're most dangerous. A midfield four of Kvist, Delaney, Schone and Eriksen is absolutely miles better than our midfield.
They have a squad backed up by Championship players, but the majority of their squad are at relatively big European teams. There's a heap of league titles within their squad at different countries.
Current squad - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmar...#Current_squad
They look very similar to us on paper. This really is a good chance of getting to Russia
well, would you look at what Saturday, 11th November 2017 is the 30th anniversary of
O'Neill and Keane will feel they can grind out two 0-0 all draws to get it to penalties. We definitely have a chance.
Who would our five kickers be ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Straightstory
Our honed ability to murder football should be a leveler.
Randolph could be on there. He strikes the ball very wellQuote:
Originally Posted by CraftyToePoke
Penalties? Get lost.
Are you over-rating them there? How do "relatively big European teams" compare to the PL sides that many of our players are with? I'm not saying I know that much about them but the PL is a very, very strong league.Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
In their last game against Romania, their side featured the following clubs: Leicester, Brentford, Chelsea, Sevilla, Betis, Werder Bremen, Copenhagen, Celta Vigo, Spurs, RB Leipzig, Rosenborg. It's hardly a who's who of European heavyweights on an overall scale, is it (Copenhagen and Roseborg's domestic dominane being my point there)? Obviously, Eriksen and Schmeichel are fine players. Delaney has a good reputation and Poulsen played fairly frequently at high-flying Leipzig last season. But Christiansen and Kjaer will be rusty and their other 2 full-backs aren't exactly household names at household clubs.
Look, I'm not trying to completely disparage Denmark but I'd hate for us to fall into a trap of thinking they're worldbeaters. Whilst they beat Poland 4-0 at home, Romania drew twice with them during qualification and actually would have nicked it on away goals, were it taking the same format as our play-offs. (0-0, 1-1).
Depending on who's on the pitch at the end, of course, but we have a decent enough selection of players who we'll have seen taking and scoring penalties at some stage or other.Quote:
Originally Posted by CraftyToePoke
McGeady
Brady
McClean
Hoolahan
Hourihane
Meyler
Walters
Murphy
Maguire
Long
I've something in my head about Glenn Whelan maybe taking a couple also, and Arter ballooned one against Southampton last season. Not sure about Scott Hogan but you'd think he'd be okay maybe.
Well, in the last two years alone, Leicester, Chelsea, Sevilla, Copenhagen, Spurs and RB Leipzig have been in Champions League Group stage action. That's the pinnacle of European football.Quote:
Originally Posted by Olé Olé
In the same period of time, Rosenborg, Copenhagen (again) and Celta Vigo were in Europa League group stage action.
That leaves only Brentford, Real Betis and Werder Bremen out of group stage action in Europe.
How many of our team against Wales played Champions League group stage at any point in their careers for a start, never mind their current clubs? More players played for Dundalk in European group stage than they have for their current sides.
I'd class big European sides as those who perform in the highest level of European football.
Delaney is a serial diver.Quote:
Originally Posted by Olé Olé
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Originally Posted by backstothewall
Yes but he is aiming at a bigger target, ie the whole pitch, granted he rarely misses, but taking penalties is a different matter.
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Originally Posted by DeLorean
He was never eligible for Ireland apparently.Quote:
Hareide has used three strikers in these recent games with two big men, Andreas Cornelius of Atalanta and Feyenoord’s Nicolai Jorgense becoming key players for the coach along with the much smaller Pione Sisto. Others have played their part with Thomas Delaney getting three goals in Armenia but Christian Eriksen is by far the most important of all with the Tottenham midfielder picking up many of the loose balls from the play in front of him and scoring a lot of important goals.