WHILE OPPOSITION COACHES often speak vaguely of ‘long balls’ and a ‘never-say-die attitude’ in relation to the Boys in Green, Denmark manager Age Hareide was willing to go into more detail when asked about Ireland after announcing his squad today.
Hareide gave the impression of a man who had done his homework, highlighting Ireland’s defensive qualities and backing up assertions about their style of play with statistics.
“They are good at defending, and therefore we need some patience when we get to the park,” Hareide said in an interview with TV2 Sport as translated by RTÉ Sport.
“Ireland has just over 500 successful passes on the last third. We have about 1,100 passes on that part of the (pitch). It shows what we emphasise.”
Hareide also hinted he may tread cautiously in the first leg on 11 November, suggesting 0-0 would leave them in decent stead going into the second game, which takes place three days later at the Aviva Stadium.
“0-0 in Parken (Stadium) is not a disaster, because a goal away from home can mean a lot. A goal away from home will put a lot of pressure on the opponent, and we’ll keep that in mind.”
Ahead of next month’s crucial World Cup play-off games, the 64-year-old coach has named a 23-man squad, which can be seen here.
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That Tyrone elbow on Paudie Clifford was assault
The dig from the no 24 on clifford was pure filth.
How can someone who gets sent of be allowed go a collect the cup and give a speech so what message is been sent out to young you can get sent off and go up and get trophy maddness
@Moya Power-kelly: Get a life!!
@James Dore: he got sent off he shouldn’t have been up their collecting the cup he deserved the second yellow card so how he was allowed collect the cup their bit as squicky clean as everyone thinks
@Moya Power-kelly: I’m guessing cause he was the captain,that’s why he collected the cup.
Ta an ceart ar fad agat!
Outstanding exhibition of football by David Clifford and Devlin up full forward. The Tyrone team completely lost their heads however and paid the price for playing on the edge from time to time. Incident leading to the first sending off was beyond silly it wad blatent red card as he struck his opponent but at the end of the day was harmless. Fossa should possibly have been reduced to 14 too for a high tackle early in the second half but all in all it was a good clean game until the end when 2 off the Tyrone players got sent off as they chased the hand down, thus ending any real chance they had…. Game disintegrated completely after that with the last 3 red cards coming in the last 2 min. Excellent game but a pity about the cards…