Stephen Kenny eager to downplay hype around Evan Ferguson’s ‘meteoric rise’ via IrishTimesSport
More impressive than the goals is the teenager’s ability to live among seasoned international defenders like Liverpool’s Ibrahima Konaté, who should reappear when France come to Dublin on March 27th, 72 hours after Didier Deschamps’s side launch their European Championships qualification campaign against The Netherlands in Paris.
“He has the ability to score goals, he scores headed goals which nowadays forwards are not as prolific at scoring headed goals – but he scores headed goals and you know he’s good in the air. Kenny being Kenny, question one about this Irish sporting meteorite prompted a listing of every other striker at his disposal.
“Mikey has attributes that, to be honest, we probably don’t have in the squad,” admitted Kenny. “A winger of that ilk; a right-footed left winger who can dribble and take people inside or outside and has a good final pass . . . I expect him to be important and very much be involved in the campaign ahead.”
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