The ambition of a World Cup send-off is to bore everyone to tears, but Ireland’s 3-0 loss to France proved a little too engaging for anyone’s comfort writes gcooney93
Gavin Cooney A WORLD CUP SEND-OFF game is like spending Christmas with your parents and reactionary uncle: you approach it hoping nothing memorable or interesting will happen at all.
Otherwise Ireland were soundly beaten by a French side who will contend for the World Cup, the positives of a bright opening not reflected in a 2-0 half-time deficit and then a distant memory as they were overwhelmed in the second-half. Some parts of the video review of this game will dismay the Irish players but they shouldn’t be too discouraged, as while the quality in this French team will elevate the World Cup, it will not envelop it.
But Ireland’s performance for 43 minutes was encouraging, as they limited France to few chances while retaining an attacking threat through Sheva and Carusa. That they then went in 2-0 down was brutally harsh; the scoreline felt like, in the words of the RTE personality de jure, a very ad hoc arrangement.
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