Immense performance from Ireland the best team performance in years. Scales , Collins & O Shea were the best for me keeping Portugal at bay. Coleman and Cullen excellent too, Parrott the hero though with one great poachers goal and the 2nd a great bit of individual class
Need to back it up now in Budapest on Sunday
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That’s three red cards where players lost their heads against us.
Have we gotten really good at winding the opposition up?
The personality to the team is exactly it. Coleman at the back, Parrott up top and Cullen really stepped up in the middle. I think I’ve said that despite having 3 or 4 club captains on the pitch at times the team has looked leaderless. This was the opposite. Collins and O’Shea also showed plenty of character. That’s going to be badly needed again against Hungary. It made sense to give Troy that rest because he really does look like the key to unlocking more of the potential in that team now.
Honourable mention for Coventry coming on too. He looks a bit slow, but very disciplined and tidy. He might well start in Hungary.
You had to google some famos Portuguese didnt ypu, go on admit itOriginally Posted by SkStu
Sensational !!!!!
Shes not talking to me and its glorious
Its really not that complicated!!!
If Heimir leaves us soon at least he gave us one big night. Kenny never did that. Kerr and Stan never did that.
So it’s cause for celebration and I think he should be given more time because we’re starting to see the unity of the team now.
Maybe Yerevan was a catalyst for achieving that. Time will tell
Remember HH talked about the team needing a *******? I do wonder if they've upped their banter against the players they're marking. I'd say O'Shea is a divil for it as well. Tony asked HH about it and he waved it off...but I do wonder.
I was fuming watching Collins pawing at Ronaldo in the tunnel but maybe there was a game plan involved.
Second home qualifier I've missed since Covid.
I am not even slightly disappointed...
What's a comparable win I wonder? Germany was a bit lucky if we're honest - one of my favourite Ireland goals but we were second best against a wasteful Germany. Italy in the Euros - have to be sullied slightly by then making 8/9 changes or whatever it was. France 2009 might count if it hadn't been for extra time. And all those were 1-0 wins. Germany 1994 - is that our last two goal win against a top team? It can't be surely? Or did we beat Italy 2-0 in Belgium around 2012. Both friendlies of course
Croatia in 98 is the last time we beat a top team by 2 goals according to Kieran Cunningham on Twitter…
Irish by birth ,Harps by the grace of god.
That was unreal boys and girls. I haven't been this buzzing after a match in years. Pain of Yerevan trip extinguished. Everything fell right for us but it shows what you can do in football if you get the controllables right. Shape, selection, tactics, desire, application.
In a competitive home game yep.
Interestingly, Sadlier correctly said, nobody mentioned missing Ferguson once during the game
Croatia had finished 3rd in the WC months before. Had 'seats' 4th row behind the goal, Irwin peno and Keane header, will never forget that one. Not that it matters but England lost too that day. Id rate tonight up there with that game though the levels the respective Irish sides players were playing at at club level isnt comparable.
Tbh I didnt watch the game tonight. Couldnt bar to check score and when we were in front then the old superstition side of being a football fan kicked in so Im taking full credit for tonights win by not watching!
That, erm, Lithuania win in 1997 was massive…
Me too.. though watched the last 5 mins 😬
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