Ireland conceded five second-half goals in last weekend’s Nations League defeat to England.
Heimir Hallgrímsson says he might look to introduce a sports psychologist to his backroom team in light of the 5-0 thumping at Wembley.
“The teams that we can face, especially from Pot 2, are not teams that are much better than us, even though they are higher ranked. It gives me hope that we can do things. Having held England scoreless at the break, a red card to Celtic defender Liam Scales early in the second-half led to a spectacular meltdown.Only for some fine saves by Caoimhin Kelleher, the Boys in Green could have been staring at a record-equalling competitive defeat, similar to the 6-0 reversal against Austria in 1971.
“We’re not hiding. The goals we conceded were very soft and strange but I think again it was down to the mentality and psychology, we lost our heads.“We conceded three goals in six minutes and it’s game over. It’s tough to come back from that. It happened very quickly.” “You can add to what we are doing a professional in this area, not even a professional, just someone you can share things and stuff with because psychology is just a bigger and bigger part of elite sports.He did take one positive from the second-half - and that was the performance of substitute Andy Moran. Currently on-loan at Stoke from Brighton, he showed plenty of promise during his short spell on the pitch.
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