Evan Ferguson scores a fine opener as disappointing Euro 2024 campaign nears an end.
This Euro 2024 qualifying campaign limps towards its bitter end.
If it happened at the start of the Dubliner’s tenure it would be hailed as the exciting vision for the future, the blueprint for success.Still, Ferguson’s movement was sharp, his finish precise. That’s three goals in eight appearances and if you are clinging to a positive for Irish football from the last year he is most certainly it.
He will be the focal point of any Ireland team for the next decade and beyond. But he won’t be able to do it alone, and nor should he be expected to. Matt Doherty made it 3-0 after a superb acrobatic flick from Jamie McGarth teed him up and Callum Robinson came off the bench to head home a fourth. Yet there was an element of frustration at the outset when a promising counter attack started by Josh Cullen didn’t result in a killer pass being played for Ferguson as he made a burst to support Jason Knight.