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WE ALL KNOW the routine by now.
Whenever opposing managers or players talk about the DNA of the Republic of Ireland they always speak of spirit and strength and a sense of deep pride.
“And of course, you guys always concede goals early into the second half, usually from outside the box.”
That familiar failing cost Ireland again here, Liam Scales’ outstretched foot deflecting Tasos Bakasetas’ strike beyond Caoimhín Kelleher three minutes after the restart.
The Ireland goalkeeper had been in contention for man of the match due to his performance in keeping the game scoreless for that long. Instead, his misplaced pass in the 91st minute gifted Petros Mantalos a tap in and he’ll have a different kind of feeling in the pit of his stomach.
Some of the Greek players fell to their knees at the full time whistle, others embraced their teammates with long hugs.
This was an emotional night for the hosts, paying tribute to the late George Baldock, and the home fans chanted his name and sang their songs with fervour as they headed into the Greek night still on top of Group 2 in League B of the Nations League.
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Played alright two bad goals to give away and just lacking quality upfront
Varadkar resigns after coming back from Washington and no senior minister will say a word about the compromised T.D, unless they say something before the election without a doubt him which hurts their chances in the election.
@Brian D’Arcy: you are very obviously a homophobe…….
@Brian D’Arcy: what did he get up? Filth merchant
@Brian D’Arcy: He played well in the 1st half but struggled on the left wing!
@Brian D’Arcy: wow, that’s, some stretch of the imagination. Still plugging the conspiracy that something happened in Washington, with zero evidence. You got it bad.
@Brian D’Arcy: What has your comment have to do with the game? No doubt you will claim you are not pushing an agenda.
@Brian D’Arcy: How do you think Evan Ferguson got on?
R.I.P. George Baldock
Braindead from Kelleher. At least lose without making schoolboy errors.
@Don Johnson: Don, you know the score was already 1-0. What Kelleher done didn’t make a difference.
@Padraig: It made it 2-0 Padraig. There’s is always a chance to knick an equaliser.
@Don Johnson: Don, he made the error in the 91st minute, you know when we were already trailing. I would go in on him if it was the 10 min but we were never going to come back, are you a United fan looking to proportion blame. We ain’t qualifying anytime soon, in fact I cam see another 10 years of this.
@Don Johnson: Kelleher is an awful liability
@Marcus Maher – Triskellion Films: we’re gonna win the worldcup, where’s the tickets at 5 times the price?
@Buster Lawless: yeah true it would have been 4 or 5 nil only for him playing out of his skin before the error. Most of the gimps throwing criticism at him are United fans who put their English club before their country. That’s half of what’s wrong with Irish football.
@Marcus Maher – Triskellion Films: Couldn’t care less about United or Liverpool. How many late equalisers have Ireland gotten in their history? We were playing well in the dying moments, getting corners and crosses in. But yeah we should just down tools at 1 – 0 and pass the ball to the opposition to kill the game off. What a dumb attitude you have.
Shame we didn’t stick with Mick McCarthy
Getting sick of the sight of Greece now. They are the new Denmark.
@Fergus O’Connor: Yep. Just without a functioning economy
@GerH: That’s not true, although it has massive debt, it is one of Europe’s fastest-growing economies and has made a solid recovery since the depths of the crisis a decade ago.
@Fergus O’Connor: get used to it
@GerH: so you know nothing about economics. We get it.
Who in their actual mind supports the ROI Men’s soccer team anymore?!
I literally couldn’t name one of their ‘players’ anymore and couldn’t be orsed.
My 5 year old Nephew could do a better job… on his own!! No exaggeration.
Happy memories of being a 3 year old in 1990 stuck in the pub with a load of happy drunks though!!
@Donna Fallon: embarrassed for ya…
@Donna Fallon: Don’t worry. There will be some other bandwagon along shortly that you can jump on
@Donna Fallon: Irish people who don’t have a sense of entitlement of success. Are you the type of person who doesn’t support their local club when they are going through a difficult era but are front and centre when having a period of success. Says a lot about the kind of person you are
@Donna Fallon: dope
@Donna Fallon: what an awful attitude
Junior B
Same old story
Thank you , Journal.ie for posting my comment .
They should play Jake o Brien , brilliant defender who can actually score few goals , he’s much better than these guys we saw last night , what’s that coach doing ?
Oh , no .
Hard watch dont have the players to step up level and when do find them they decide to play for another country.
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