QuoteWOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Match nearly over. Have to say that is a surprising result
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Harry and Liam, Harry and Liam, Harry and Liam, Harry and Liam.
By the way we are playing tonight we need Cyprus to be as bad as possible
Why is it suprising?Cyprus defence is awfull.
Last edited by Montenegrin; 12/08/2009 at 7:41 PM.
Loads of people on here overrate Cyprus because they beat us badly one timeOriginally Posted by Montenegrin
But 6-1 to albania lads is shocking
Harry and Liam, Harry and Liam, Harry and Liam, Harry and Liam.
You are right.6-1 is disaster.
We beat Wales 2-1.
Well I suppose they wil be relieved they have an easy game coming up
Don't let it throw us off.
You've got no fans.
The fact that they came VERY close to a result against the world champions and the fact that they pushed Bulgaria so close in Sofia makes the result above a BIG surprise IMO.
We struggled really badly at home in this campaign against them too. Is that so far removed from your memory?
Where you at the game??
Cyprus have had some bad results lately, losing 2-1 at Home to Canada and now this shock result, could be an easier game than I thought it might be, but remember those games are friendlies, and not to taken too seriously.
Australia gave us a shocking 5 goal hammering and only had to score 3 to do it.
I would never rate a team on how they perform in friendlies.
Countries treat them very differently in terms of attitude etc. Didn't Stan have a great win in his first friendly as Ireland manager?
Enough said.
Not surprising at all. Albania have Lorik Cana in there team
people here "overrate" cyprus because they have got some very good results in international football over the last few years against a lot of very good teams apart from the ireland result
You mean the World Champs who couldn't beat us on their own patch? A team who were made look crap against Australia last night.
Did you watch that game? I did. Two very poor sides in a dull match. Bulgaria won comfortably enough in the end.and the fact that they pushed Bulgaria so close in Sofia makes the result above a BIG surprise IMO.
We struggled against them because we are not very good. That doesn't mean they aren't garbage who can't lose big to an eastern European team.We struggled really badly at home in this campaign against them too. Is that so far removed from your memory?
Think it was at Croke park but Im not sure because of my memory loss problemsWhere you at the game?
Last edited by Brendan 82; 13/08/2009 at 12:59 PM.
So by default Australia must be better than Italy
Yes but Albania aren't very good either, that's what's makes it such a surprising result. I don't think anybody would have taken much notice if it was Spain that beat them 6-1
Last edited by DeLorean; 13/08/2009 at 1:20 PM.
lads spain only beat macedonia 3-2. think they were 2-0 down at one stage. 9 times out of 10 australia wouldnt be leaving ireland with a 3 nil win. we just need to learn from it.
Absolutely! Like remember when we beat Italy in 94 and Brazil couldn't beat them in regular time in the final. That means that we were clearly the best team in the world! And only Robbie Keane and Ronaldo scored against Oliver Kahn in the 02 WC; therefore him and Ronaldo were the 2 best strikers in the world, right?So by default Australia must be better than Italy
Check it out; I was only pointing out that getting marginally beaten by Italy at home is no sign of quality. If we were to look at all of the teams that were pipped at the post at home to Italy in a qualification match we would probably have to mention every bloody team in the whole of Europe!
True but if you were to look at all the matches Albania won by 5 goals or more I'd say the list would be pretty small. It was a very strange and unexpected scoreline and on top of the home defeat to Canada I wonder has the Cyprus bubble burst a little bit. In fairness they had clearly become more competitive the last couple of years.
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