2017 UEFA Under-17 Championships

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Report & interview with Colin O'Brien here - http://www.fai.ie/ireland/match/23/2...605?tab=report

And UEFA report here - http://www.uefa.com/under17/season=2...ort/index.html

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England lead 1-0 after 29 mins.

[tetsujin1979]

you can tweet your thanks to Bosnia here if you like - https://twitter.com/NFSBiH

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Will we still be grateful if England beat us 7-0 as well?

[tetsujin1979]

England beat 10-man Netherlands 3-0: http://www.uefa.com/under17/season=2...&match=2022607

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Our quarter final against England is confirmed for Saturday at 11:00 (Irish Time).

No sign of television coverage yet but hopefully one of the Eurosports pull something out of the bag.

Friday
Quarter-final 1: Spain v France (17:45CET, NK Varaždin stadium, Eurosport 1)
Quarter-final 2: Hungary v Turkey (12:00CET, SRC Velika Gorika stadium, Eurosport 2)

Saturday
Quarter-final 3: Germany v Netherlands (17:45CET, NK Inter Zaprešić stadium, Eurosport 1)
Quarter-final 4: England v Republic of Ireland (12:00CET, SRC Velika Gorika stadium)

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Still no sign of our match being televised on either of the two British Eurosports or the German version. The three other quarter finals are all being shown live.

UEFA are experimenting with a new 'ABBA' penalty system for this tournament, along with the women's version, assuming the need arises obviously.

New format, same result. Germany beat Norway on penalties in the women's semi final despite missing their first three penalties. http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/39798344

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Turkey beat Hungary 1-0 and will play the winners of our match in the semi final on Tuesday.

http://www.uefa.com/under17/

[DannyInvincible]

Still no sign of our match being televised on either of the two British Eurosports or the German version. The three other quarter finals are all being shown live.

Aye, it's odd that. According to LiveOnSat, our game is the only game of the four quarter finals that won't be broadcast anywhere: http://liveonsat.com/los.soc_int_U_all.php



LiveOnSat have obviously mixed their info up or something as well as they appear to think the match on Eurosport 1 tomorrow at 16:45 will be between England and Bosnia & Herzegovina. The match kicking off at that time is between Germany and the Netherlands. And obviously B&H didn't make it through either considering we finished ahead of them!

[DannyInvincible]

'Colin O'Brien picks Republic of Ireland U17s off canvas for England showdown': https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2017...land-showdown/

We have a process with the players whether we win, draw or lose matches. We’ll always look back to look forward. Our message to the players has been, the group stages was about three games. We performed very well in two games and we weren’t at our standards for the third game. The players have had the opportunity to look back at certain stages of that game, speak about it and then we got out on the pitch this morning and had a very good session. Everyone realises now we are in a different competition, it’s knockout now and it’s a derby game for us.

England are a high-quality team. They are very strong at the back, have very good ball-playing midfielders and their big players are their forwards where they have a lot of creativity, pace and power. We will have learned a lot from the last game, what we need to do better, and if the players do that earlier tomorrow we’ll be fine. The main thing is that our players learn. This is about their future. They are in a quarter-final of a European Championships, it’s the furthest we’ve come in 20 years and they are getting loads of experience from it. That can only be good for our players going forward up to 18s, 19s, and U21s.

[liamoo11]

wonder how they will set up tommorrow. sancho out wide for brits has been outstanding, We have set up very narrow defensively really leaving our full backs exposed think tommorrow our wide players will need to be far more disciplined to help our full backs.

[DannyInvincible]

LiveOnSat have corrected their schedule, but still no sign of our game being broadcast anywhere: http://liveonsat.com/los.soc_int_U_all.php



Does anyone know if it's on radio, by any chance?

[DannyInvincible]

Here's UEFA's match-centre which has live text commentary anyway: http://www.uefa.com/under17/season=2...&match=2022688

Ireland line-up:

1. Maher (GK)
3. Ledwidge
4. Doherty (C)
5. Collins
6. Bolger
7. Nolan
8. Thompson
10. Idah
11. Connolly
14. O'Farrell
15. Redmond

[liamoo11]

Uefa has it down as a 433 but with the players picked I wonder is it 5 at back with everted wide players in midfield and idah up top. Seems sensible. Connolly has been poor defensively so hopefully he will put in a shift.pity o Connor is not fit enough to start.. Missing your first choice keeper from everton your captain from man utd your defensive midfielder from west ham who has played at 23 level and a Liverpool striker is going to be tough for a country our size. Best of luck

[DannyInvincible]

England have spent much of the opening ten minutes camped inside the Ireland half trying to unpick the green lock in front of them.

10 down. 80 to go...

[DannyInvincible]

Ack! Sancho puts England 1-0 up in the 13th minute.

[DannyInvincible]

Ireland not really threatening.

The relatively early goal was just what England wanted. Ireland now have to come out and force the issue. So far it’s all so comfortable for Steven Cooper’s players.

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10 down. 80 to go...

They're only eighty minute matches I think, thankfully.

[DannyInvincible]

They're only eighty minute matches I think, thankfully.

This 80 minutes could pass so slowly and painfully, it might as well be 90!

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True. 1-0 at half time not too bad after conceding early, hopefully they can hang in there.