Republic of Ireland v Portugal - 11/11/2021

There was an insanely talented player.

in every way. when he wanted to he could just destroy teams. He made Michael Carrick look a schoolboy one of the games I was at. Completely destroyed him.

He played centre half for Barcelona and won the Champions League.

When City were attempting to pull back United’s lead in 2012 they played him at number 10.

Come on.

that was the joke made towards City when they signed him, they already had a plethora of “holding” midfielders.

It took about 2 games before the jokes stopped

As you said, ‘when he wanted’.

He looked to have another gear in him all the time.

Mad as a hatter but the good ones always are.

Saw his debut for Real Madrid

Pajo destroyed him

Haven’t had a chance to read any match preview stuff and I’m not aware of any new injury issues. Are we expecting the second half team from Azerbaijan away when McGrath replaced Horgan at half time, or could Coleman or Stevens get back in?

Bazunu
Omobamidele, Duffy, Egan
Doherty, Hendrick, Cullen, McGrath, McClean
Robinson, Idah.

You could set that up as 3-4-2-1 either with Robinson and McGrath behind Idah as the main/lone striker.

Robinson seems to have gone off the boil with his club after scoring a load of goals in the last meet up. He’s obviously going to play though and will hopefully become a reliable goal scorer for us.

Bernardo has bottled it against the Lansdowne roar. Hasn’t travelled

Dan McDonnell reporting that Omobamadele a doubt

Think it is Spock feeding the media an excuse for when he leaves Oma out for Coleman

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4D chess from Coach Spock

Ffs

Is it true my beloved pre match haunt The Ballsbridge Hotel has closed since my last visit to Lansdowne Road?

The Portuguese team are here

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Can you stop a few getting in?

According to Google it has. The smaller adjacent hotel closed and us being made into apartments afaik

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Bruno making a few quid this evening on Deliveroo

No

He’ll only take the handy runs

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