Andy Reid

I'm just a normal boy from Aldi.

There's not much to be happy about but don't tell her that.

Well, look, you can't knock the work ethic of the players and how they went after trying to kind of achieve what they were going after, I suppose.

But the disappointing thing for me and what's...

The thing that really kind of gets me is that that was a game that was so winnable last night.

Never mind going to penalties and kind of take away the penalties because it can become a bit of a lottery when you go into penalties.

But that game itself in 90 minutes or even an extra time for me was such a winnable game.

I thought they were a poor team.

If I'm being totally honest with you, I thought we made a great start to the game.

And then, you know, you get the goals and then you know you're probably going to come under a bit of pressure a little bit.

But I just felt we dropped off a little bit too much and we could have really gone after them.

Because, like I say, I thought they were a poor team.

So for me, that's it.

There's times that I've watched Ireland over the last probably...

10 years and looked at them going into games and seen them in games and top I'm not too sure they're good enough to win this game and it's going to be a real struggle to win this game but I didn't feel that about the game last night I felt that it was a game there you could really go get after them and go and win the game of football and unfortunately it didn't happen yeah the midfield is always a source of conversation when it comes to the Republic of Ireland how did you think that we fared in the middle of the park

Probably, probably as we expected, really.

I thought at times throughout the game, we kind of were competitive, landed on second balls and kind of competed quite well.

But I do feel that there were times in the game where, like I said, we dropped too deep and

But what you found from them, we were dropping kind of into a, I would say, a mid to low block.

And because of the physical big players that they had, they were happy to just kind of launch it in there.