Republic of Ireland v Portugal - 11/11/2021

Think they didn’t take Ireland seriously the last day and will want to put it to bed rather than v Serbia .

If Ireland can perform and be competitive I will be happy enough . That real test is to beat Lux on Sunday . In many way that will decide SK immediate future . If we fail to win that SK could be in bother

There is massive giddiness

I think it might be 2-1 with us getting a consolation . There is a massive gap in quality

Just sometimes I’ve a feeling about games. I can just see us putting in a mouth and father of performance on Thursday in front of a raucous home crowd.

Can’t see Portugal being fully focused and it isn’t a must win for them.

I’m not gone on their team and a fair few of their players aren’t playing too well.

I really fancy think we are going to go well. Just need a little luck on the night.

They pretty much played 2-4-4 against us. It was very much a case of them taking us for granted and a bit of lethargy on their part after the Euros.

They missed a peno and Jota spurned a hatrick of decent chances before we took the lead.

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They’ll batter us. They were the worst they could possibly be and still bate us.

They got a bit of a dig out from the ref on fairness

Who’ll do a Roy Keane on Overmars in the first minute of the game?

Any chance McClean starts?

Ireland v Portugal and Ireland v New Zealand in the rugby plus jumps action in chelthenham this weekend. It really is a wonderful time to be alive.

@the_man_himself

Were the two white boys (Knight & Cullen) asked about their vaccination status yesterday?

@Bandage have you been sorted with a ticket?

Unfortunately not. But I haven’t given up.

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its a dead rubber match mate, dont worry about it

I might have something for you, I’ll know this evening

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I’ve never seen Cristiano Ronaldo play live in person. I had a previous chance to do so when I won tickets to see Manchester United play Chelsea at Old Trafford in the 2007/08 Barclays Premier League but I gave those tickets away as I wasn’t very interested in the match in question. I haven’t bothered looking for tickets for this match so it looks like it’s destined not to be.

Thanks for keeping me in mind, old pal.

Every test match is important for world ranking points and seeding in future qualification groups.

I saw him in a few manchester derbies. One in which he was sent off.

One of the few players to blow me away and just looked “different”. The others being Yaya Toure and Pirlo.

Just on a completely different level to the other lads trying to play on the same field

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I wonder will they have the live band outside the Ballsbridge Hotel on Thursday evening?

Wondering if I should go there or The 51

Portugal were due to come in to the VIP section tonight and yours truly was to check their certs but they have POSTPONED their arrival until tomorrow

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Finally another Limerick international!