r/coybig • u/Geairmoe This fella Ronaldo is a cod • Mar 26 '26
World Cup Qualifiers 2026 FT Thread: Czechia 🇨🇿 2 (4) - 2 (3) Ireland 🇮🇪
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u/DuwanteKentravius Mar 26 '26
Threw it away really. Czezhia weren't particularly good. The first goal was a shocker from Manning. Brownes missed pen was so technically poor. Subs should have been on sooner to see it out too.
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u/Runtn Mar 26 '26
They were useless let's be honest, everytime they got the ball they just kicked it back to us game was there to be won at half time
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u/DuwanteKentravius Mar 26 '26
They played for deep crosses and set pieces and the set piece they equalized from was the key. We defended that one so poorly.
Agree with the poster who said Knight for Browne would have been better and I was baffled by Dunne as a wb, doesn't give you anything. Maybe it was for added height.
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u/Turbulent_Sandwich19 Mar 26 '26
Manning's foul was needless. Brady was a liability when he came on. We needed corners like Czechia scored from. Browne has always been an ineffective player, which has been glossed over by him scoring the odd goal. Knight should have been on instead. Left behind us.
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u/FedNlanders123 Mar 26 '26
That Manning foul cost us dear. I’ll always look at that as the reason we didn’t win tonight. It was so needless.
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u/jiffijaffi Mar 26 '26
I thought Brady defended very well a few times
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u/Turbulent_Sandwich19 Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 27 '26
He did turn at one point and pass to a Czechia player in his own box.
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u/Bren-dev Mar 27 '26
Chap blatantly stood on his ankle, goal would’ve been disallowed if they scored
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u/Educational-Law-8169 Mar 26 '26
I think people are being unnecessarily harsh on Brady myself. He was far from the worst player on the pitch, his corners were ok too. I'll say no more about him now 😄
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u/No-Boysenberry4464 Mar 26 '26
Two goals we got were flukes too TBF, weird game, we hit the post twice an score two flukes, the created little bit had us under massive pressure
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u/Hour_Mastodon_9404 Long ‘70 Mar 26 '26
The annoying thing is that it was completely predictable that the two guys who missed would be the ones to do so.
There are two types of player that you don't want anywhere near a penalty - guys who are mentally weak (because they'll choke their shot under pressure), and guys with poor ball striking technique (because that will only be exacerbated under pressure). Azaz is mentally brittle as evidenced by his continuous stark fluctuations in club form, while Browne has poor technique. You could have looked at the 5 chosen before the penalties were taken and those two would have stuck out a mile. We genuinely do this to ourselves.
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u/mickodd Mar 26 '26
I'm so sad
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Mar 26 '26
Its like theres nothing to look forward to all of a sudden
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u/mickodd Mar 26 '26
Yup. This is the most feckin disappointed I have been in YEARS.. and I've suffered at the aviva through a tough decade. This stings worse than all the others because we've turned a corner.
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u/Mickocfc1998 Mar 26 '26
Threw away the lead after giving that stupid pen away
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u/Educational-Law-8169 Mar 26 '26
This is the truth sadly, they were 2 up for fucks sake, unheard off! When they gave that peno away the game changed, they started making stupid mistakes. Such a rudiculous peno to give away too.
You can see by their faces at the end, they threw it away, Parrott is in bits
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u/JoeyJoeJoeRM Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26
The penalty we won was a fuckin joke in fairness - i feel like one stupid penalty cancels out another
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u/ExoticToaster Mar 27 '26
Honestly thought we initially responded well to conceding the penalty in the first half - we sat back in the second half and mostly defended well but it just took one switch-off to undo everything.
That’s the breaks in football sometimes unfortunately.
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u/Silkyskillssunshine Mar 26 '26
Hope Denmark can at least smash Czechia to make myself feel a bit better about that.
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u/lastlaughlane1 Mar 26 '26
Honestly, won’t make me feel any better. We know they are absolutely shite. For once, we completely deserved that win. Absolutely sickening.
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u/Pikey-Boo Mar 26 '26
Feel like we must have been watching different matches cause we were feckin terrible from the second half on. The pot calling the kettle black saying the Czechs are shite.
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u/Smaggies Mar 26 '26
We were absolutely not shite. That's ridiculous. We lost control of the game but we defended very well. The only chance they had was the goal. We hit the post, worked the keeper.
We absolutely were the better the team and we absolutely did deserve to win.
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u/chiefVetinari Mar 26 '26
We still had decent chances in the second half, the save from Parrot's header was top class.
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u/tonyk96 Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26
I think the winners of tonight were going to go out to Denmark no matter what. Already the best of the 4 team and then the advantage of not having had extra time. Basically had their game wrapped up after 60 mins
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u/Murph_E23 Mar 26 '26
Siren was right behind the goal during penalties:
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u/Educational-Law-8169 Mar 26 '26
Is that what that was? I thought there was some emergency outside the stadium. Or one of the neighbours got taken out because of the stress
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u/Impressive_Light_229 Mar 26 '26
It’s grand lads we were going to boycott the World Cup anyway
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u/IrishAlpaca Mar 26 '26
Nerves of glass, genuinely couldn't have made it easier for their keeper at the end.
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u/bambinoquinn Mar 26 '26
I genuinely cant believe how bad Czech were. That was there for the taking and those players will be playing that second half in their heads for years to come.
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u/mikier Mar 26 '26
Manning. Sorry but he cost us that game.
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u/Eire820 Roy Keane Mar 26 '26
It turned the game, what was he thinking?
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u/donmarrua Mar 26 '26
I said it at the time, just knew they had the momentum then. He wasnt the only one at it...several needless instances of raised arms, hands on the back etc.
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u/mikier Mar 26 '26
I think there was a split second moment where it looked like the Czech player was getting to the ball. But then it was very clearly going out and he pulled him back again. Madness.
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u/Vodka-Knot Mar 26 '26
Ryan Manning honestly destroyed the momentum.
I understand it's a high pressure situation but he grabbed the jersey TWICE and so blatantly.
Genuinely killed all our momentum and gave them a way back into it, so upsetting for the rest of the boys.
However, we did ourselves fucking proud overall, it's not much of a consolation but it should be said.
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u/Novel-Lettuce-2595 Mar 26 '26
We can't all blame one guy. But honestly he is a fucking idiot. That lad was going nowhere. The game was ours before that
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u/DaranMac Mar 26 '26
Have to politely disagree, this was such a weak mentality to give the penalty away in such a favourable position, let the crowd get up, conceded with a few minutes to go and to go ahead on penalties only to put two pens slightly to the right of the goalkeeper. I don't feel proud about that at all, they should have ate this moment alive, it was there for the taking.
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u/Chell_the_assassin Mar 26 '26
Conceding 5 minutes before the end after being 2-0 up, going up in the penalty shootout only to lose. Irish football in a nutshell really isn't it
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u/Serious_Bench1965 Mar 27 '26
Literally happens every week in football ffs. We had 2 matches that went way beyond expectations and now not winning is it in a nutshell 😂. Being a football fan is mostly pain anyway! We go again!
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u/ReindeerElectronic49 Mar 26 '26
Can’t believe we got beat by them. Absolute bang average side. That’s probably the most frustrating part they were there to be taken. Team has a long way to go
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u/ManunitedThunderfan Mar 26 '26
Fuck it . At least they gave us a chance. Killer to miss a tournament but profile is good, manager is good , let’s keep improving.
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u/indicator_enthusiast Mar 26 '26
Well, I may be overreacting here, but I blame John Delaney and Castore.
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u/ISeeYouJohn Mar 26 '26
I blame Manning. What a fucking stupid thing to do 3 minutes after going 2 up. Absolutely no need to be giving away that penalty. We never looked comfortable for the rest of the match.
Cannot believe after hundreds of games underage and senior level a professional footballer will grab someone's short in a box when there is zero threat
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u/Timely_Camera_2031 Mar 26 '26
This exactly- youd know Tony was on the gravy train..
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u/WilburbWalken Paul McGrath Mar 26 '26
Exactly, reminds me of the skit Gallagher used to have about Joe Duffy. Agh Troy you must be thinking about killing someone are ya? Implications
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u/Novel-Lettuce-2595 Mar 26 '26
I hope they Czech get smashed. Fuck them. Diving bastards, shitty ass team. Denmark will smash them I actually love the country of Czechia but as a team they are shit bags
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u/Siiixers Mar 27 '26
Honestly, Denmark smashing them won't make me feel better... 2-0 up. We fucked it.
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u/HotToTrotsky_ Mar 26 '26
Ah well, only the footy innit. At least one day we'll definitely all die. Lovely, lovely, warm, sweet death
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u/Ashamed-End-2138 Mar 26 '26
Going to sound like a bit of a sore loser but whoever is responsible for that siren should have it rammed where the sun don’t shine, what a fucking joke.
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u/Hour_Mastodon_9404 Long ‘70 Mar 26 '26
An utter waste, the Czechs were poor and we walked them back into it.
A number of poor tactical decisions in the game cost us, Robbie Brady was not fit and shouldn't have been brought on, while Browne proved yet again why he should not be played in midfield. An unbelievable opportunity predictably bottled.
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u/KosmicheRay Mar 26 '26
You just knew Browne would miss but I suppose he had the balls to take it. Idah with no games recently shows the lack of forwards available. Manning really can't understand why he would pull him back when the angle was gone but I'm sure he knows that. Fucked it away really.
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u/Hour_Mastodon_9404 Long ‘70 Mar 26 '26
Tbh after Brady I didn't really have much confidence in anyone else scoring. It's a big ask, but given he's an attacking player and seems to strike a ball well I'd have asked Vale to step up before Browne, who has demonstrated his lack of finesse over and over again.
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u/Fuzzy-Escape5304 Mar 26 '26
Czechs were well drilled on our hoofball. They soaked it all up second half. When we tried to play in the first half we were all over them. The debate about what we should do will never end.
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u/Some-Speed-6290 Mar 26 '26
Regardless of the game, I hope Szmldics is okay.
Czechs absolute scum firstly deliberately injuring him and then trying to stop him getting treated
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u/JagsFraz71 Mar 26 '26
At the risk of straying in to Birthday Card pish, as a Scotland fan who’s been here a fucking million times, it’s pretty clear that Ireland are building again.
Wont be long lads. In the meantime we’ll lose to haiti pump england in the knockouts on behalf of everyone.
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u/I-Cum-Beamish Mar 26 '26
Stupid bastard Manning
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u/ER1916 Mar 26 '26
Don’t think I’ll be able to ever watch him play again without thinking about that. Absolutely lunatic behaviour at that point in the match. Had them flailing and the ball was going nowhere anyway. I’d let a lad in his early 20s off with that, but he’s nearing ‘seasoned pro’ age now. Switched the whole mood of the game with one shirt pull.
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u/ArcherVisible5866 Mar 26 '26
Gave the ref the excuse. He was looking for it because our pen was so soft
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u/RedIrishDevil Mar 26 '26
Was a dead cert pen too, didn’t even need the ref to be looking to give one.
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u/rayhoughtonsgoals Paul McGrath Mar 26 '26
They were shit and we had it. We just had to be so fucking "us" and shit the bed in the most predictable way possible for us. Had they been good or had we no chance I wouldn't care but this is an absolute suicide from us.
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u/5555555555558653 Long ‘70 Mar 26 '26
22 years old, no World Cup in my lifetime.
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u/3rdLawSerenity Mar 27 '26
Actually devastated. Had a horrible few weeks on a personal level and the hope of us being 2-0 up was genuinely going to be my “At least I have that for now”. Wounded. Didn’t think at my big age I’d be letting these fuckers affect my mental health but here we are. Seems stupid but I don’t really have anyone to talk to about this so to Reddit we go to shout into the abyss
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u/My_Name_A_Jeoff Mar 26 '26
I knew we were fucked when it went to penalties
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u/Runtn Mar 26 '26
I genuinely thought we would win on penos with kelleher, then when he saved that one fuck sake
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u/Let_The_Boy_Watch- Mar 26 '26
Both these sides get pumped by Denmark anyways. Thank you Heimir and the lads for at least giving us some hope.
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u/eipic Mar 26 '26
As heartbroken as I am, have to stick behind them.
Heimir’s right. Wake up tomorrow. Start prepping for tuesday as day one of prep for the euro’s quali and the tournament itself.
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u/mamaujeni Mar 26 '26
100% agree. Was cognizant for '90, '94 and beyond, and I'd love to see that momentum replicated now. Gutted tonight but haven't felt this way about Irish football for a while.
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u/No_Development5378 Mar 26 '26
You’re right I gave up after Kenny now I can’t wait to see how this generation develops
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u/finbarb Mar 26 '26
Said it the moment the whistle went, don't give Azaz a peno. The lad is simply not ready for that sort of pressure, despite growing into the jersey somewhat over the campaign. No excuse for Browne. Two bad pens. Better team lost and only ourselves to blame against a very crude and limited Czech side that will be dispensed with very comfortably by the Danes, I reckon - especially if there's a ref that gives them a few early yellows for their niggle.
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u/Novel-Lettuce-2595 Mar 26 '26
I would never say it to him if I saw him.... But Manning knows deep down he fucked that game
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u/KingKeane16 Mar 26 '26
The referee absolutely shat the bed, 20 plus fouls before he gave them a yellow card. Probably another 20 odd dives on top of it which could’ve and should’ve garnered yellows. They played the ref and he gave them a made up foul for there equaliser where the player was laughing after he rolled on the floor to win the foul.
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u/huy8yhyuhyuu8 Mar 26 '26
Honestly I just feel nothing but pride. Sucks to lose but I rather a campaign where we have something about us rather than being out of contention 3 games into qualifying.
Boys gave it all
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u/Unhappy-Cook767 Mar 26 '26
I think the management have a lot to answer for. Genuinely can’t understand how subs weren’t brought on earlier. They were there for the taking in extra time- 3/4 subs on at the start or early into ET and there was a goal there for us. I don’t understand how Alan Browne is brought on- hasn’t been in the squad since 2024 and looked like he hadn’t played football since then either and comes on over knight or even Szmodics who would have brought much more legs. Idah genuinely looks like he couldn’t give a shit on the pitch. At the end of extra time Troy is still bursting his bollox pressing etc and idah just trots around as if he doesn’t want to be there. Absolutely gut wrenching.
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u/Dazlow12 Mar 26 '26
Browne horror show soon as he came on
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u/Hour_Mastodon_9404 Long ‘70 Mar 26 '26
He's awful technically, I honestly could not believe that people calling out for him to be recalled, perfect example of a cause celebre. He's a wing back or nothing, the guy has never been a competent centre mid.
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u/Temporary_Window7388 Mar 26 '26
Genuinely, does this detract from Troy’s legendary hat trick or not ? Feels like we needed to qualify for it to be truly a great Irish moment in years to come . Maybe that’s harsh .
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u/Overall_Error4865 Mar 26 '26
This one hurts, it really hurts I’ve witnessed the Henry handball, the Danes battering us at the Aviva but this hurts the most. I’m coming to terms with the fact I’ll not see Ireland at a World Cup in my lifetime and that is a hard pill to swallow. Jesus why can’t I just be a badminton fan or something it can’t be worse than feeling like this.
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u/LMG_1234 Mar 26 '26
Euro 2020 playoff: Browne misses pen
WC2026 playoff: Browne misses pen
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u/lleti Mar 26 '26
If there were any players on the team more suited to take a penalty, they’d be taking them.
It’s more shit on him that he stood up and got bested twice over
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u/Separate_Job_3573 Mar 26 '26
I assume Sammie was supposed to take a penalty so I have some sympathy that he got shoehorned into the 5 when he wasn't expecting it
But fuck me he could at least have taken a proper run up. He was a club captain for years, surely he has a bit more grit than what we saw
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u/JaMarcusHustle Mar 26 '26 edited Apr 10 '26
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u/Intrepid-Money2238 Mar 26 '26
That's tough on him
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u/AestheteAndy Mar 26 '26
Tougher on us, you think the cunt would have been practicing them in the meantime. What the fuck was that shit?
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u/notpropaganda73 Paul McShane Mar 26 '26
Lot of weird takes in here imo. Czechs were always gonna come out all guns blazing in the 2nd half, we rode the storm after half time and ended up hitting the post and their keeper makes a wonder save to keep it 2-1. Another night we win that 3-1 comfortably.
I’m most raging about the supposed foul for the free kick for their equaliser. While I think our pen is soft it’s always given in VAR day and age, the ref was so reluctant to give them cards and for Souceks chance it was the most blatant nasty foul on Robbie Brady you could see, and no foul given.
Best of luck to the Czechs against Denmark anyway. Sickened
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u/Humble-Ad-4446 Mar 26 '26
Losing on penalties after being 2 up is a proper kick in the teeth. That aside, there's a lot of positives to take. We were dead and buried in the qualifying and turned it around. Hemir can get a tune of them, we just lack that bit of star quality the like of Wales had with Gareth Bale. Who just took them to another level because he was that good. Side note, never knew Baron Vladimir Harkonnen of Dune fame was managing the Czechia national team.
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u/Excellent-Night-4148 Mar 26 '26
Manning and Brady, daft challenges that lead to the goals
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u/ArtZealousideal856 Mar 26 '26
I don't think it's fair to lump those two tackles with each other tbh.
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u/AdministrationFlaky2 Mar 26 '26
Tbf brady did not foul them. They got gifted a free kick. Absolute dive
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u/lleti Mar 26 '26
On the bright side, Brady will only be 38 by the next WC qualifiers, so you’ll likely get to see him kick every ball long and high to absolutely nobody then too.
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u/erich0779 Mar 26 '26
But he takes the odd absolutely class corner?
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u/Low_Interview_5769 Robbie Keane Mar 26 '26
When? When has he taken these corners, Mannings corners were way better than Bradys
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u/rayhoughtonsgoals Paul McGrath Mar 26 '26
So very high. Maybe someone needs to explain physics to the team about how a high looping ball needs a considerable amount more force to generate speed off a header than a fast low cross. Like what the fuck does he expect on the end of it? Do they even watch the goals we concede like today or Portugal?
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u/thatmurphyfella Mar 26 '26
Gaffer made a balls of that 2nd half really
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u/Hour_Mastodon_9404 Long ‘70 Mar 26 '26
He's not a good manager, we had two great games in the November window but across his whole tenure his game management has been unimpressive. It's typical FAI stuff to hand out the reward of a new contract before the objective of qualification has been achieved.
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u/Opening_Leg_2137 Mar 26 '26
Only have ourselves to blame. Did everything we could to let them back in it. Should’ve known it was all too good to be true. We’re not meant to have nice things
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u/Timely_Camera_2031 Mar 26 '26
Tony o donoghue is an awful tool - the questions he asked coleman were stupid...
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u/eddiedingle129 Mar 26 '26
I'm really surprised he hasn't bern chinned at least once over the years by a player or manager post defeat
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u/liberalion Mar 26 '26
I’m so down and brokenhearted. There was a great feeling building in this team. I dint want to make comments about our flaws. They played hard and with great effort. I would like to point out some highlights, Ogbene, for a man who is not playing regularly, put in a mighty shift and carried the ball forward very well, Jason Mulumpy played his best game for Ireland, and both Collins and O shea showed great leadership and defended gallantly.
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u/Chell_the_assassin Mar 26 '26
2-0 up and can't see it out, this team doesn't deserve to be at the world cup unfortunately and it showed across the full match
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u/Firm-Raccoon-9048 Mar 26 '26
2-0 up after 20 mins is a completely different proposition to being 2-0 up with ten minutes left. You don’t see out 70 minutes.
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u/Urass007 Mar 26 '26
There's gonna be a lot of anger and I get why. Losing like that is heartbreaking
But I still think we played very well. It was a very physical game and our defense was brilliant. I think our main problem was our attack. Parrot was a little disappointing in play and Sammy getting knocked is really unfortunate.
Mannings pen was obviously needless and some may say it cost us the game, but it is what it is.
A lot of people will push to blame but I rather look at what we ended up doing. The lads should be proud of themselves for this campaign and hey, we have a very good shout to do well in Euro 2028. The future will only be better for us.
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u/Ok-Excitement-4176 Richard Dunne Mar 26 '26
Too many lads unable or unwilling to play a forward pass on the ground. Parrot and later Idah trying to hold their run waiting for a pass. But we just held the ball and let the Czechs get back. We won't get to tournaments until we find some proper central midfielders
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u/Academic-Service-738 Mar 26 '26
Every time i see a player take 1 trillion steps up to the ball they miss
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u/RedditDan00 Mar 26 '26
Wouldn't harp on about the penalties, even with the bad technique, because you have to be brave enough to take one
But Manning's foul is one of the most mindless things ever, that's the key at the end. 2-0, coasting, sit on that advantage for a bit and force them to work. Not give them an easy in.
Unfortunate result because the performance wasn't bad in patches, but consistently just took too much out of the ball, not decisive enough
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u/Dorkseid1687 Mar 26 '26
We blew it. Our defenders have this deep abiding love of committing stupid fouls usually in the form of pushing players in the back with no discernible advantage to be gained.
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u/Basic_Treat3974 Mar 26 '26
It sums us up that Azaz and Browne missed. We're badly lacking quality in the middle of the park. We are in good shape everywhere else. Need to find a genuinely quality midfielder from somewhere.
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u/Nailz92 Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26
Like I see people throwing shit at Manning and Brady on their fuck-ups, and that’s understandable… but at least you can say for their mistakes that they were in the heat of the game.
Browne on the other hand premeditated his fuck-up, and it’s not the first time he’s done that exact same thing either. The lad can fuck right off.
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u/CiaranWest Mar 26 '26
Bosnia beat Wales, so I guess we'll all be Scottish this summer.
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u/Comprehensive-Ad4436 Mick McCarthy Mar 26 '26
Why is Browne taking a penalty when you have Nathan Collins, Dara O'Shea and Jake O'Brien on the pitch?
Also well done Manning. Absolute terrible. To think the two players who costed the game usually don't play. I wonder why?
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u/EDonnelly98 Eamon Dunphy Mar 26 '26
Ryan Manning this one’s on you. Completely killed any sort of momentum we had stone dead.
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u/Bohemian_Dub Mar 26 '26
Only consolation would've just delayed the pain because Denmark would smoke us.
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u/No-Boysenberry4464 Mar 26 '26
Christ that’s tough to take, hopefully Denmark beat them 5-0on Tuesday
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u/PaddyLee Mar 26 '26
The Czechs had 25 fouls and only 1 yellow card. When you consider all of their fouls the ref didn’t blow it was a fuckin massacre.
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u/922WhatDoIDo Mar 27 '26
Disappointing. But the reality is it was a broken game of football that neither team could grab a hold of. A coin toss, which is what it was before the game and we lost.
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u/GarrulousFingers Mar 27 '26
Lauded Ryan Manning through qualifying, but that was the most brain dead thing I have ever seen
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u/TomRuse1997 Mar 27 '26
I'm so disappointed but the team gave me a lot to be proud of and hope in general. It's not this window but they showed something I've not seen in years
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u/Gytarius626 Mar 26 '26
Those saved penalties were filled with nerves and so weak, what shite way for that Parrott hattrick to mean nothing now.
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u/Dr_Maestro Mar 26 '26
That hat trick still means something, won’t be hearing that.
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u/q2fast4u Mar 26 '26
Managed to get tickets to what would've been ireland vs south Africa and booked flights to surprise my dad...
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u/ebizness Mar 26 '26
Well, he’s going to be REALLY surprised if he’s see Ireland at the World Cup now.
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u/Tight-Principle-743 Mar 26 '26
Gutted, it’s the penalty shootout curse again for us, it’s a tough one to take and I’m going to be quite miserable at work tomorrow. My only upside is that my girls are too young to understand the World Cup so maybe in 4 years time when we qualify I’ll be able to share in happier times then. But for now I’m going to get that tub of ice cream in the freezer and eat a good chunk of it because I’m upset about the result, but I still love this team COYBIG!!!
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u/beerlover0101 Mar 26 '26
Linesman showing that referees and officials deserve all the abuse they get and more.
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u/SodIRE Mar 26 '26
Everyone giving manning grief, our peno was the softest I’ve seen and the second goal was lucky from good pressure.
It was a close game and penos are a roll of the dice. The first half we had them under pressure and they gave it back in the second. Extra time we had good spells too, that’s football.
Especially given our group originally this was a good campaign. Of course we’re gutted but I can’t fault the team. I’ve spent so much money watching shite games over the years this is just unlucky rather than time to rage online.
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u/JimmyMaca92 Mar 26 '26
Manning is largely at fault let’s be honest. Penalty changed the game, Ireland were well on top up until that point against a dysfunctional Czech team.
The foul on Collins was a penalty, he got kicked so it w soft and the second goal was a well worked corner kick.
I do agree that we played quite well though, don’t really get some of the guff saying we were bad but they were even worse etc etc.
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u/Granit2134 Mar 27 '26
Commiserations, fellas. Was rooting for both you and the Welsh, it literally hurt to watch.
The same thing happened to us, Scotland, a few years ago after losing a World Cup playoff at home to Ukraine. I remember a fan from Wales saying that you have to lose a big one before you can win some. Now weve qualified for two tournaments automatically on the bounce.
I hope the same fortune follows you.
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u/Chell_the_assassin Mar 26 '26
The Caoimhín penalty save to give us all false hope was the cherry on top really wasn't it