Ireland collapse in Kosovo as Israel game looms
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Why did Ireland suffer a late defeat to Kosovo in the Nations League?
First this morning, Ireland's contentious Nations League campaign got off to a terrible start last night, with a late goal resulting in defeat to Kosovo. Vedet Mariki's goal on eighty three minutes will only darken the mood as the players are set to meet today to figure out how to handle Sunday's fixture against Israel. Here's how Ireland's Chidozy Ogbenes uh uh said oh what He said to Tony O'Donohue after the game. Uh
Are you worried about what's coming? Concerned? Um I'm aware. Um I'm aware of um the feelings towards it. Um but I will say to you, Tony, it's um it's a complicated and very difficult um task. And uh I just want to say and I hope you know people don't put the pressure on us to you know to to to be answering difficult situations because there's people people that can make the decis decisions and you can't rely on footballers to make that decision. So that's my feeling on it. But as a group we're gonna look at it and we're we're gonna see what we're gonna do.
Chidozeog Benny, speaking to Tony O'Donahu last night for more than this. I'm joined from Kosovo by John Fallon, Irish Examiner Football Correspondent, and also by former Ireland International Ray Houghton and sports psychologist Doctor Stephen MacGyver. You're all very welcome. Good morning to you, John. Wasn't great, wasn't it?
You know, David, uh if the Irish football team are looking for a diffraction from all this noise in the build up, they certainly didn't get it from Kosovo. Um as you had mentioned, a terrible start to the campaign. I think they probably w all would have been glad that the match just peed it out and uh for an in all draw, but the Kosovans got the goal six minutes from the end that they deserved and uh even the manager, Heimer Hall Grimmson admitted that the better team won.
How did the Kosovo victory expose Ireland’s tactical weaknesses?
Yeah, I mean in your piece in the examiner, John, you you refer to Kosovo's dominance. We were lucky they didn't score another.
Oh yeah, by the end it could have been two or three. Um really I think the chance count was in the end twenty two versus three attempts. And Ireland only really had one of those and that was Jelo Dogbene's uh shot in the first half where he scooped the ball over the crossbar. But outside of that only for Crevine Kelleher and a goal in clearance from Jason Malumby. Um it certainly could it certainly could have been a more chastening defeat.
Yeah, uh I I mean our co uh Kosovo are on the up certainly and they've they've beaten some good teams of of late. Uh w were they just the better side or I mean you mentioned the noise around the Ireland team uh and also I I I guess some people would say we showed them too much respect with five at the back.
Yeah, no, th they are on the rise as you mentioned. Like they're like they're behind in the rankings, but that's probably deceptive because they're only playing senior international football ten years. So they've taken some big scalps along the way. Like they did better in the World Cup qualifiers than Ireland did. They got to the playoff final, only beaten by Turkey. They've they've player they'd player on the pitch from the Juventus last night, players in Serie A. Uh the goal scorer is who plays at Fernibache in Turkey. So There are no minnows and it was always gonna be a close game. I would have thought Ireland probably realistically if they got a draw out of it would have been a good result,
but
just they d they were under par and the cost of it were well up, particularly With what's going on politically here, uh there's on a highly charged atmosphere with their political heroes uh being sentenced there to cumulative eighty three years last week. So there's a lot of that that passion was in in the stadium and you could see it from the goal scorers' celebration as well, putting it up with the T shirt.
What impact does the political controversy over Israel have on the squad?
Yeah. Uh I mean f w which he might get in trouble for. Um how much has the noise noises off, the noise around the Israel games, how much has that affected the players, do you think, John?
Uh I th I as much as the players say it doesn't, I think I think it did.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why did Ireland suffer a late defeat to Kosovo in the Nations League?
0:00–1:44
2
How did the Kosovo victory expose Ireland’s tactical weaknesses?
1:44–3:26
3
What impact does the political controversy over Israel have on the squad?
3:26–4:38
4
How are the players coping with external pressure before the Israel match?
4:38–6:20
5
What did former international Ray Houghton say about the team’s performance?
6:20–7:47
6
How can sports psychology help the Ireland players stay focused?
7:47–9:22
7
What strategies are being discussed for the upcoming Israel game?
9:22–11:18
8
What final advice did Dr. Stephen McIvor give to the squad?
11:18–13:00