Yeah - think i made that point when the senior squad was announced and people were criticising Kenny for not calling up Moran (that I was happier to have him with the 21s) and that in general I would have had Ronan in the squad. Seniors shouldn't have called up Moran, 21s shouldn't have called up MurphyOriginally Posted by tetsujin1979
Looks like 5-3-2
Ireland U21s Vs Norway: Keeley; Curtis, Lawal, O'Riordan, Garcia MacNulty (c), Roughan; Adeeko, Healy, Leavy; Armstrong, Emakhu
Brooks, Abankwah, Adaramola, Phillips, O'Neill, Springett, Okoflex, Kenny, and Murphy make up the bench. Gilsenan misses out through injury and supposedly were doubts around Springett going into this game.
Adventurous as ever Jim…
These are the types of team selections that led to Festy tearing up the championship for Derby in the last campaign and not even making the match day squad.
I like both Roughan and Curtis but Jesus, we’re basically set up to put 8 men behind the ball and hopefully counter with Armstrong and Emakhu
Don't think we can expect anything different from Jim when it comes to playing certain teams. We did similar at home to Turkey. Wouldn't surprise me if Moran being called up didn't bother Crawford as he isn't your stereotypical Crawford type player for these games.
Poor defending from O'Riordan for the goal. Surprised he's playing in the center of the back three given Lawal is one of the best passers we've got on the team.
Emakhu deserved that goal. Himself and Armstrong getting through some work pressing the Norway defenders and have caused issues for Norway trying to play it out of defence.
Great work from Emakhu to win the ball back and then finish the rebound from Sinclair Armstrong’s shot,a promising looking pair of strikers….
Irish by birth ,Harps by the grace of god.
The only criticism I can think of form an Irish perspective is we haven't troubled the keeper enough but other than that we've played some good football. A good away performance in a difficult venue against difficult opposition.
One thing I've noticed from all the underage teams this window is we play some football but seem to concede from pretty much every chance we concede. The key to getting a result here more than anything is prevent Norway from creating any chances...
Enjoyable game of football to watch in the first half. Really impressed with Emakhu. That's the best I've seen him play. I don't remember his work rate standing out so much like this when he was at Rovers. Think he's hitting another level after his year in England.
Would take a draw in the context of the group.
Don't have any issues with how we're set up away from home.
Norway not up to much in this game. If Crawford can get his subs right three points are there for the taking.
Fantastic link up from the 2 strikers for the second,great goal….
Irish by birth ,Harps by the grace of god.
Nice finish from Armstrong too and nice to see after some of the chances he missed in other games
This ref has it in his mind that we are a physical side so appears to bee pigning us any time we have any coming together so particularly are the penalty box, and in it, we need to be super careful.
Right on cue!
Irish by birth ,Harps by the grace of god.
And there we go, I was surprised he didnt give the first one tbh.
And behind now,taking Emakhu off felt like a bad decision and it looks worse now…
Irish by birth ,Harps by the grace of god.
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