Dan McDonnell

Yeah, I'm not disagreeing with you, but I don't think we're going to see a Portugal either.

You know, I don't think we're going to see an approach comparable to Portugal away.

I mean, I think probably Portugal at home.

And look, that was a home game, not the be all end all game for Portugal.

So there's a couple of, you know, you have to put those caveats in.

They're a lovely team to play against, Portugal.

I'm happy, yeah.

And that is true.

And so much of this would be dictated by the Czech approach.

But I don't know.

I think that there might be...

there might still be a little bit of boldness at times in how they approach.

And it may well be, it could be like the outside, it could be Jake O'Brien meandering up for a couple of throw-ins or situations.

I think there are ways in which you can be a little bit more ambitious within that system.

I mean, the irony when you look back to Budapest and how Ireland pulled themselves out of the game in Budapest is that

all the memorable stuff happened when they were being ambitious.

And actually, when the game was tight, probably at 2-1 in the second half, you could argue it was Ireland's worst spell of the game.

So the results can sort of shape how you remember games, and it can shape this view that, well, they stayed in the game until the last 10 minutes.

And I suppose that's technically true, but they weren't...

massively watertight in that match.