Stephen Kenny has some tough calls to make ahead of Friday’s game.
Gavin Bazunu has not had the best of starts to the season while surrounded by a Southampton defence that has leaked goals — with 21 conceded, only one team in the Championship has an inferior record .
Nathan Collins has had a decent start to his Brentford career, featuring in all of their Premier League games so far and consequently is expected to be involved against the Greeks.Since the last international window, Dara O’Shea and Andrew Omobamidele have played just 45 minutes of Premier League football between them — in fact, the latter is still waiting to make his debut after Nottingham Forest made him the second-most-expensive Irish player of all time on Transfer Deadline Day.
If Scales does feature in this window, he would become the 21st Irish player to make his debut under Stephen Kenny, assuming fellow uncapped squad members O’Leary or Sammie Szmodics don’t get there ahead of him.With both James McClean and Enda Stevens not in the squad, there will definitely be a change to the starting left wing-back from the last international window.
Alan Browne came into the midfield in place of Jayson Molumby that night and did well against the Dutch. His recent form is better at club level too, with Browne appearing in 10 out of 11 Championships for third-place Preston, while Molumby has been an unused sub for West Brom’s last two Championship outings.
Meanwhile, Evan Ferguson is almost certain to lead the line barring a last-minute hiccup. As well as Adam Idah performed against France and Netherlands amid the Brighton star’s injury-enforced absence, the 18-year-old is the most promising natural talent that Irish football has seen in quite some time.
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