Col senno di poi, non abbiamo avuto una campagna brillante. Ma abbiamo concluso la fase a gironi con dei risultati fantastici. Penso che ieri sera la fiducia si sia sentita davvero nel primo tempo. Eravamo sicuramente la squadra migliore. Guardando gli highlights dei tempi supplementari, non direi che nessuna delle due squadre abbia giocato particolarmente bene, ma la Repubblica ceca ha creato alcune occasioni più forti sotto porta. Anche se sono dispiaciuto per non aver fatto progressi, mi è sembrato che i ragazzi si fossero comportati meglio di quanto ci si aspettasse da loro prima del calcio d’inizio.
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So our two goals we ‘scored’ – one was dubious penalty and the other an own goal? We didn’t score from play, Czechia were much better, im glad our false hope got quashed early tbh.
North Macedonia were robbed.
No. The team was very poor and passive in the second half and IMHO, the penalty for Ireland’s first goal shouldn’t have been given… add to that a silly penalty given away.
We couldn’t score a goal from play in 120 minutes. So no, not really.
Who was letting the fire brigade run their sirens while we took the penalties?
The jerkers have our number.
If you’ve got a keeper who will probably save one penalty the rest of the team needs to take advantage of that probability.
Penalties are what often separates the best from the rest.
We had the chances to win but as soon as we got the second, we stopped playing. They were the better team on the night and Denmark would destroy us if we played like that. Yeah the peno was stupid but it wasn’t all on him
There was a massive drop off in the second half. So a goal was always coming from Czechia at some point.
Giving away a silly penalty didn’t help either. Then finally a penalty shootout is always a coin flip.
The only upside it is the most attractive style of football Ireland has played in years.
I still have PTSD from Trapattoni.
Had enough chances to win it, and Czechia were really wasteful with the ball, but unfortunately we reverted to type under sufficient pressure.
Neither team can beat Denmark after that 120 minute slog last night though, so I think the penalties winner is pretty much moot.
No. It was a fair result between two very evenly matched teams. If they’d have lost on penos it would have been harsh on them, especially after recovering a two goal deficit. However, it was there for the taking for us and only an absolutely brain dead tug in the box allowed them any foothold. We get to the half and we go on and win it.