FAI...June 2024 Friendlies v Hungary and Portugal

Captain Obvious · October 16, 2012, 09:28:38 PM

Quote from: micko12368 on October 16, 2012, 09:23:42 PM
Sweden now only one behind 4-3

Yeah and after 38 minutes Portugal 0 Northern Ireland 1

micko12368 · October 16, 2012, 09:39:02 PM

Now 4-4!

SHEEDY · October 16, 2012, 09:43:59 PM

4-4 ffs. thats a big bonus point for the swedes. germans let me down in my accum. wankers

Captain Obvious · October 16, 2012, 09:48:40 PM

4-4 is bad result for the Irish. They will need to take points off Sweden twice and that's unlikely.

SHEEDY · October 16, 2012, 09:54:11 PM

Quote from: Captain Obvious on October 16, 2012, 09:48:40 PM
4-4 is bad result for the Irish. They will need to take points off Sweden twice and that's unlikely.

we really need to take 4pts from the swedes. germans were tearing the swedes a new one in the 1st half. switched off at ht.

Declan · October 16, 2012, 09:56:03 PM

Great first half NI -shows what can be done. Wonder can they hang on?

laoislad · October 16, 2012, 09:56:45 PM

In a pub in Cork here. Whole pub cheered when Northern Ireland scored against Portugal.

SHEEDY · October 16, 2012, 09:58:23 PM

french scored last minute equaliser to draw 1-1 against spain

The Gs Man · October 16, 2012, 09:58:47 PM

Any streams for Norn iron game?

SHEEDY · October 16, 2012, 10:28:05 PM

portugal 1 occupied six 1 10mins left

Milltown Row2 · October 16, 2012, 10:38:17 PM

Nearly over, 90 mins!! Drew with Lux and nearly beat Portugal!!

magpie seanie · October 16, 2012, 11:30:40 PM

That NI result should be a wake up call to the "we don't have the players" brigade. Surely our players are at least as good as what NI have at their disposal?

Favourite bit of cranky Chippy tonight - if Robbie claimed it he must have touched it, he wouldn't lie about it !!!!!!

Great that we got a comfortable win albeit against a team with several part time players. Again, ridiculous decisions by the manager to start the lads playing in the US (even though one scored), bringing on flippin Cox for Brady but McCarthy, Wilson, Coleman all offer hope. If we get Dunne back, Long and McLean into the side we mightnt be half bad. I'd strongly consider Kelly at RB and play Coleman on the right wing. Not sure about the keeper. A starter, might have forgotten a few....

Westwood

Kelly Dunne O'Shea/Clarke Wilson

Coleman McCarthy Andrews/Fahey McLean

Long Walters/Doyle

Main Street · October 16, 2012, 11:55:43 PM

Seanie, you should give this lark of picking a 442 Irish team a miss.
When is the last time you have seen Kelly play?

Good 2nd half against the Faroes. I actually saw Westwood throw the ball out twice to the feet of some Irish player in the 2nd half.
His first half was spent hoofing it to Walters, the 2nd half we kept it on the ground, worked hard and eventual surpassed the Faroes in the passing statistics.
I hope Cunningham can recover his fitness and form soon and get into that LB position.
I don't know about Trap and this result , the selected starting team was all set to play the same long ball game to Walters, then he changes it in the 2nd half or do the players decide that stuff at half time (according to some reports)?
Regardless, it still appears that Trap's first port of call is the hoof game. He did well to get this bunch of players from the technically crude English club teams to the Euros, but time to move on and see if we can manage to get them to play football.

Billys Boots · October 17, 2012, 08:51:17 AM

I thought we'd a good second half - shows we can play a bit when asked, though we were lucky to score immediately on the restart, and we made a lot of chances after that. McCarthy was really, really positive in his tackling and passing; we could have scored six or seven.

To me the results last night show: (a) we're not as bad as we thought, or Trapp thinks, (b) Germany are not as good as we (or they) think, and are vulnerable at the back without Hummels (if teams go after them in the right way), and (c) Kazakhstan are no good (again if approached in the correct fashion).

I wish Portugal were in our group - they were muck.

Main Street · October 17, 2012, 10:22:26 AM

Yeah, we spent the first half against the Faroes (basically a fishing town team) ignoring that we could play football, in contrast to the Faroes who tried to knock it about on the ground. That's the part that doesn't inspire me, first choice is the hoofing game but if the opposition are weak enough we just might be allowed to play it on the ground. There's not much chance of us being set up to do that against better teams.
Both Austria and Sweden will be confident of handling our type of game, dominate the possession and chances.