This was to be the game where Ireland might steal a point but Sweden’s clinical edge shows Eileen Gleeson’s side what they’re missing
would have had one in the bag before they even kicked off against Sweden at the Aviva Stadium on Friday evening. Alas, you have to earn points on the actual pitch, and against the sixth ranked nation on the planet,That this was to be the game where Ireland might steal a point or three says something of the level they’re now trying to compete at.
Denise O’Sullivan’s banjaxed knee ruled her out, and the mighty Ruesha Littlejohn was sidelined too, but those who claimed they knew Amber Barrett and Lily Agg would start have noses the length of Pinocchio’s. Game time. We’d hardly started when George Hamilton was left reminiscing about Roy Keane’s reducer on Marc Overmars 23 years ago when Agg came close enough to sending Fridolina Rolfö and her two Champions League titles in to the middle of next week with an early - how do we describe it? - challenge. George suspected Aine O’Gorman was too young to remember Roy’s - how do we describe it? - challenge on Overmars, and he wasn’t too far off, her being just 14 at the time.
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