New thread as the last thread seems to be broken.
Where did i say the goal was empty?
They know how to kick a ball. Thats their job.
They cant replicate the pressure of a real penalty. So practice them all you like but when your legs are jelly with the weight of a nation it wont make a bit of difference.
Now if your job wasnt professional football im sure practice would make a difference but thats a different conversation.
No. It was from a corner
Should have been 40 fouls and 6-7 yellow cards, they werent a relation to a footballing side.
Vinnie Jones and the Crazy gang played better football than Czechia.
I have a distinct memory of one of my teammates at training having a go at me for holding her jersey when I was shielding the ball. She didn't say why she was annoyed and I had absolutely no idea what pissed her off. It was other people that told me what I was doing. But that moment where I saw her angry face in my direction was like I had come out of some fog. It's so weird!
Thanks
Hadn't opened that e mail as thought it was for the Prague matchday info
Heimar is not the messiah
How many are going,32?
48
He got us a lot closer to a world cup than previous coaches have though to be fair
Before the game I felt scoring goals would be difficult for us with such a defensive minded team, 5 at the back and 2 holding midfielders.
But to be 2 up after 25 minutes and then lose, thats hard to take.
The penalty was daft by Manning and why wasnt there a man on the near post for the second goal. Molumbys shot was very unlucky, these are the fine margins that decide games. Also Szmodics getting injured, he would have taken a penalty.
Azazs penalty was too central and not enough power, Brownes was really poor, he telegraphed it with the short run up and it was weak.
If the team truly didnt practice penalties that is unforgiveable, practice makes perfection.
Wow.Rose coloured specs there.😁
hes a very naughty boy
You miss it that way and you're slated big time then for just putting your foot through it hoping for the best.
And professional golfers sometimes miss 4ft putts…which is why they practice them 🤷♂️ Surely anyone with a decent amount of ability should never miss a 4ft putt, yet I can pretty much guarantee you all the top pros practice them nearly every day.
I thought the same but I assume if even one of comes off they see it as worth it compared to taking it short and trying to work a crossing situation. I think the Parrott header which the keeper pulled off a great save for came from a long throw.
Said it before long throws became fashionable again we should get Rory Delap in to help teach with long throw techniques. I don't know how you go about developing the skill or why certain players have it. There was one kid at Limerick FC, Will Fitzgerald, who was built like a pull through for a rifle and when he broke into the first team at 18 he had a wicked long throw. Could throw them flat with pace into the box.
I think Delap did Javelin as a kid + his height was how he got such a mad flat arrowlike trajectory on his.
Yeah Idah is used to taking them. Has taken 18 penalties which doesn't include shootouts and only missed 1 if transfermarkt is accurate. Still think Jamie McGrath should have been called up even to just have him on the bench to throw on with a few minutes to go for a penalty. Though I've always thought he's been solid when playing for Ireland and has a decent set piece delivery. More consistent than what Brady's delivery is even.
When you're nervous that's when practice is even more important, as muscle memory helps bypass the nerves.
Technique, consistency and precision is improved through practice.
I remember when Milan lost to Liverpool in Istanbul and all I could think afterwards was they would have won if Pirlo and Shevchenko had only practiced penalties.
Hitting home now
Really need to qualify as group winners, those playoffs are not to be trusted
Euro 28 is 50-50, we're hoping 2 of England/Wales/Scotland qualify so we can get a 'pity' place in the finals
No we are hoping to qualify but have that fall back. We are as likely to qualify and gift them the "pity places"
It was 100% from a throw. Parrots headed chance was also from a throw. The o.g. came from a corner.
Do I like that we use these tactics, not particularly, would I rather that we didn't have to resort to these tactics, absolutely but they were being used because they created opportunities, so for every throw that didn't beat the first man or didn't even make it into the 18 yard box, there were the one or two that led to chances and goals, so makes sense why they used O'Briens deliveries.
Two things can be true.
Ireland are not a good enough football team to be making this tournament. The regression of the game to one where so much of it is a bunch of running big men playing for set pieces suits them. But we're still not good enough.
AND
Czechia got away with absolute nonsense last night that would not have been tolerated by a semi-competent set of officials. It just is what it is. They shouldered guys in the back constantly, and a yellow never came. Their striker had half a dozen petty fouls, nothing. They flew into tackles recklessly, nothing. It wasn't normal.
(1) I felt that Ireland got many, many more free kicks because of the constant fouling by Chechnya’s players.
(2) I understand that the Chechnya’s keeper was deemed to be ‘better than most’. So where can any keepers ‘weak spot’ be.
So , if one divides the goal space into four quarters ie the top left and right quarters and the bottom left and right quarters , I suggest that the keeper has to make an extra effort and have to make a longer reach to block a ball struck towards the top left or right corner.
The two Irish penalty shots that were blocked were kicked to the lower left and right corners. It did not help that they were both within ‘easy reach’ of the keeper. He did not have to make a ‘big leap’ to block them. The strikes were also a ‘bit feeble’
I have never taken a penalty , am not a soccer fanatic and never played the game but I watch a lot of the international games and obviously like to see Ireland win if not to give a good account of themselves - wiphich I think they did last night
For those players that are not highly skilled penalty takers , IMO they should practice kicking the ball AS HARD AS IS POSSIBLE into that upper left or right qr
It was of interest last night that one of the Successful Irish penalties was driven into the top left qr and the keeper actually got a strong touch to the ball but it was going TOZo FAST for him
Chechnya and the Czechia are not the same place.
I thought the ref was very odd. He gave frees to both sides for some of the softest pushes and jostles I have ever seen and then was lenient on the more obvious ones. He was both lax and finicky at the same time.
He seemed a different person to the one who reffed against Portugal.
I'm not so sure Denmark will have it all their own way. International football is a funny thing and their results in November were a loss to Scotland and a draw v Moldova or Belarus or somebody. Denmark are no world beaters.
Czechia have 4 days to recover, are at home.
But the biggest success for the last 6 months since the Armenia game was I think (myself included) a lot of people fell back in love with Irish football. Now we need the FAI to get their sh1t together, structure the game properly, get bullet proof governance structures in place for the government to back them and the game financially once they have.
I won't hold my breath given Patrick O'Donovan seems to have plenty to say about football and football fans which you can be absolutely sure he wouldn't say about a GAA club in Limerick. He seems to have a massive chip on his shoulder about Irish football albeit the FAI haven't helped themselves either.
There's no rose specs, there are going to be 48 countries in the World Cup this year, that's a fact
we renewed his contract before this game fr some unbeknownst reason
So what's the criteria can anyone explain? Haven't been able to get a concrete explanation for how the qualifying works.
