1-1 ****tt
I as having a look at the betting and I suddenly noticed betting suspended and the 0-1 score, was another minute or so before
the goal appeared on the stream!!
1-1 ****tt
Like, five players at fault, one after the other, for that goal. Balls.
Author of Never Felt Better (History, Film Reviews).
I heard a cheer off the telly - we scored into the away end - and cheered. No reaction across the pub. Was feeling a bit embarrassed for a while until Brady emerged cheering from the fog. :-)Originally Posted by tricky_colour
I had backed Ireland at 4-1 to win by the way, so not too pleased.
Shocking game to watch, nothing settled really.
0-0 wins for us but that would be both dire and dangerous to watch.
My brother said it looked like Dzeko was holding his groin at the end. Anyone else see that?
Bring Back Belfast Celtic F.C.
Keep the defence as tight in Aviva, not lose the heads in the event that things go even slightly right, and Ireland have this. Bosnia really are over-rated.
Author of Never Felt Better (History, Film Reviews).
Brady goal.
Different angle
McClean got really badly caught out for the goal - shame he does not have a brain - like to need controlled aggressive!
McClean did very well as a late sub and had plenty of brain and commitment.
He got caught out in the build up for their goal, but he was isolated, Wilson was just fannying about, no left full back coming in to support him, Ward would have been there, Wilson is a poor LB.
Awful game, we managed to almost reduce them to zero and yet we come away with an advantage.
McClean has to be the most brain dead player ever to be allowed play for us- he's too aggressive , runs like a headless chicken, gets caught up in stupid arguments eg recent antics for WBA when playing Sunderland and tonight topped it off by losing his marker tonight because yet again he switched off - he's an utter gob****e was like that from day one under Trap and just gets worse.
He certainly looked like he was injured. It will be interesting to see if he is fit for Monday.
That's a great result. I would fear that Bosnia could improve on a better pitch and, in a way, under less pressure. They looked far more capable of knocking it around than us, obviously that wouldn't be hard. We were well drilled, I thought Clark probably deserved motm but Keogh got it, and you could hardly begrudge him, massive heart. Coleman was very good too, won his individual battles defensively hands down. The same couldn't be said of Ward on the other side but he has to be cut some slack given his lack of game time at club level, he produced heroics against Germany and that shouldn't be forgotten. Randolph was just as assured as he was when called upon against Germany.
Whelan is so bad on the ball, in fairness there usually isn't much on for him but he manages to make himself look like somebody that couldn't possibly be getting paid for playing football. It was embarrassing at times, especially early on but he competed well enough otherwise. McCarthy worked hard to press the opposition in the first half and seemed to settle, from what I could make out, into a deeper, more refined role in the second half.
We never looked a threat at all so to get a goal was borderline miraculous and a real bonus, so let's hope we can make the most of it on Monday.
Disappointing to concede late one - but an away goal draw? Would've taken your arm off for that a few hours ago.
Game panned out as expected - nervy, tentative, both sides looking pretty scared but Bosnia wern't great. Had their expected large share of the ball but not particularly imaginative off it. Pjanic below par, Dzeko dropping to deep to get the ball and didn't see much of it until he popped up with the goal, Robbie Keane like.
I fancy us to be better on Monday and take the game to them. The scary prospect is conceding, we're not great at the clean sheet game these days and we dearly need one on Monday.
Thought the team largely did well, couldn't see much of the second half thanks to the pea soup. Brady played like a drain in the first 25, was marginally better until half time, marginally better afterwards and scored a great goal. He seems to be a bit of a slow starter but great finish nonetheless.
Thought the defence, outside Ward, were very good, aside from some understandable communication issues. Ward got a bit of a roasting. Wilson didn't do much better and should've gave McClean more of a hand for the goal. McClean did pretty good when he came on - controlled or not, his aggression relieved a lot of pressure and he was unlucky to concede one of his free kicks.
With Walters, possibly O'Shea and Long to come back - one good home performance and a little bit of luck will see this out.
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Ou-est le Centre George Pompidou?
Gah some of it was awful. But then he plays a couple of neat balls into Hoolahan, and one lovely spread pass too Coleman after a one-two with McCarthy and you wonder what's going on. Don't think he's uniformly bad so much as his passing can be a lottery. He can (and has to) be a lot neater than that though.
Ou-est le Centre George Pompidou?
Should be able to handle them in Dublin.
Were any of the other games in danger of being abandoned in light of what happened in Paris?
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Yet another brain dead appraisal of McClean's offering this evening.
I think it happened towards end of the match. And most matches around Europe were on at same time. Plus it wouldn't affect the matches in other countries miles away
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