Will Halloween Night bring more Katie McCabe bangers?
KATIE MCCABE DELIVERED on the promise of ‘bangers’ in Friday’s 5-1 rout of Albania at Tallaght Stadium, but perhaps they’d be more fitting on Halloween Night in Shkodër.
Victory at Loro Boriçi Stadium could all but seal the deal, with one eye on Belfast where Northern Ireland and Hungary also do battle. A draw there coupled with a Republic of Ireland win guarantees promotion. A different result may delay the inevitable, but it’s looking very ominous, to say the least, with the head-to-head record in fine fettle from an Irish perspective.“We’ll do Tuesday before thinking of wrapping it up,” interim head coach Eileen Gleeson said post-match on Friday.
Advertisement The Balkan nation — 72nd in the Fifa World Rankings, 48 places below Ireland — certainly didn’t just park the bus, with twin playmakers Doci and Qendresa Krasniqi making things happen. “It’s a mindset,” Louise Quinn said afterwards. “It’s something we definitely need to adapt to and for us to succeed in this group it’s really important that we’re completely clinical and for more than 45 minutes because there was a big, big difference from the first half to the second half.”
The official word pre-match was the former pair had niggles, and the manager later said it was “precautionary”. “Football decisions” was her response when questioned specifically on Barrett. “Everybody is back in the mix for Tuesday so… decisions have to be made,” Gleeson added.
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