Ireland were 4-0 winners at the Estadio Algarve tonight.
Gavin Cooney reports from Estadio Algarve, Portugal Gibraltar 0 Republic of Ireland 4 IT IS A MEASURE of this bleak and hollow campaign that Ireland’s only achievement tonight would be to ensure this game was utterly unremarkable.
There was some symbolism in tonight’s stage. Gibraltar’s ground is being rebuilt and they have decamped to the Estadio Algarve, which was where Ireland lost so thrillingly and sickeningly to Portugal in 2021. That game brimmed with what might be, but the brutal endgame foreshadowed what would never be.
Advertisement Kenny briefly shucked off the unbearable pressure to celebrate the goal as Gibraltar boss Julio Ribas shook and raged at the night sky. Gibraltar are one of the worst international teams in the world, but Ireland’s control of the game was total and they were reasonably effective in finding and pulling at the seams of their blanket defence. Most of that attacking work came down the right wing, where Ogbene and Doherty linked neatly. Coleing did make one smart save from Ferguson as the first-half wound down, sinking at the striker’s feet after Jamie McGrath danced along the endline and pulled the ball back.
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