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Azaz helped turn the game for us late on in Budapest with a brilliant assist. So wouldn’t criticize the decision to keep him on in fairness.
But his penalty was a poor strike
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Ah would people give over, the world is a pretty divided and bleak place at the moment. The country could have done with some hype and excitement. Something that everyone can get behind. I love the WC but I've only ever seen Ireland play in one and I was a 8.
Some **** questions there from Tony. The RTE boys are the only ones feeling worse than the Irish fans, because they won't all be getting a highly paid holiday to the world cup.
They are a very dislikeable team, never saw so much diving and cheating, then the siren going off every time our players took a penalty. I would cheer on England if they were playing them.
You were doing reasonably well until the last paragraph.
What corruption?
What cheating?
Get a grip.
Chiedozie Ogbene was brilliant tonight. I know it was a match of defending but he was the only one decent at attacking.
Takes some stones to step up to take a peno.
Gave away a stupid penalty and had 2 men in front of the goal scorer for their headed goal. Once the penalty went in we withdrew into the final 3rd of the pitch, cant have any arguments tbh.
Browne's been playing really well this season, in a much better team, and carrying a goal threat.
I like Knight, but I don't think it was a crazy decision or anything.
We were breezing past the not-so-great Danes next week. Azaz & Browne took that away from us.
I think they played a lot like we do. It was a very physical game.
Felt Azaz should have came off instead of molumby in ET. Felt that was a poor managerial decision. There was a couple in the game that still have me questioning Heimar. In saying that we definitely had the chances to win the game, in spite Czechia having the much better of the 2nd half without threatening
Why the hell did Heimer not put Knight on the pitch for this huge match tonight?
If he came on; he could have been a brilliant addition to the other 10 lads on the pitch if he was given the nod to play for our country tonight on one of our most important nights in our WC qualification campaign.
I'm sickened that he didn't even get one inch of a look in at all for this entire match because he could have made a huge difference to the outlook of it tonight in more ways than one. It's absolutely crazy to me that he wasn't seen anywhere to be playing a part at all.
And I wouldn't be surprised to see other Irish fans agree with me after seeing the aftermath of our team's game plan tonight.
I'm gutted that Ireland have lost out against the Czechs tonight. We were doing so well in the early stages of the match against them. We looked like we could have achieved something really historic all over again like what happened in Budapest last November.
But alas; things like corruption & cheating within the Czech setup have fostered the ability to win them huge games like this one when it matters most to the detriment of the losing side. And Ireland had no choice with them being the butt of the joke in being that team on the losing side tonight.
Nope tonight was the 4th after Romania 1990, Spain 2002 and Slovakia 2020
It was a peno. Soft but still a peno. The free kick was never a free kick.
No he wasn't
Took his penalty well but unfortunately I think he is done at this level
Seriously what were you watching
You're talking like that was the only game in it. Would have had another tough fixture against the Danes on Tuesday. Tougher still, most likely.
awful, awful take.
Sickening.
**** sake so what? This kind of rubbish is infuriating - why shouldn't we report on potential success? If we'd won the whole place would be rocking next week. nothing like an Irish begrudger
Hundreds of tickets up now for Tuesday's game on ticketmaster
VAR is for the money men, not the fans.
And our penalty was never a penalty. Swings and roundabouts
Yeah look at the body language of say Browne to the Czech lad who took the winning penalty.
Szmodics was put on to take a penalty. I'd have backed him if he was on to make it 4/4.
go home lads with yeer boring same old song or 2
Absolutely… I think some are getting caught up in the vibes of that period they penned us back for a bit - but the Czechs were creating nothing. We were dealing with that pressure really well. It was actually like the inverse of some of our past games from the 20-22 period where we're chasing something, slinging in balls, but ultimately not causing any problems.
Even the free they were given that they scored from was us dealing really well with them and playing our way out of trouble, but with them inexplicably being given a free for absolutely nothing.
Was a fairly balanced game, and tbh — as you say — i'd give us the edge in terms of quality and chances made. Hit the post, hit the crossbar, and needed a wonder-save from Parrott's header. By contrast Coimhin had little to do.
No you mis-heard, rewind it back
I was only saying to my wife before the game at least it won’t be a poor ref decision because of VAR. Jinxed us.
Just get John O'Shea away from our national teams please
