Daniel McDonnell

And then all of a sudden one player switches off and there was bad from the cover in midfield coming back.

And then that's it.

You're done.

It's that split second.

But I mean, yeah, I know what you're saying about that sort of almost hard to explain this sense of almost destiny or something.

Like the second goal, when you consider that he probably hadn't been in the game really for a number of minutes prior to that,

He still kept on the pitch.

You know, the ball deflects in his direction to start a break.

And somewhere at the end of it, I mean, even the Austrian players are sort of falling out of the way, like sort of extras in a low budget war movie or something.

It's like, lads, like, but even afterwards, he's kind of said, they're kind of happy.

Like, you know, they're all sort of,

queuing up like trying to play it cool but i feel that i think sabbath sir would obviously it would have played at a high level and a couple of austrian players i saw they were you know the argentine players so i were hooking him and they were former teammates but some of the other lads you can tell it was like someone sort of networking at an event who really wants to get to go and meet that one person and they uh they sort of you know hover in their area you know hover near the toilets or something so they might catch them for the the little handshake or something how are you getting on i

And you could just see that.

There was that sense of I'm on the pitch for this.

Like there's probably a million sort of profile, private profile photographs of like some of these lads, you know, with Messi in the background.

And you can sort of understand it if it's like Jordan, if he plays against Jordan or maybe some of the lower teams.

But like Austria are actually a good side in their own right.

But I think even, you know, his players largely play at good clubs, you know, really good clubs.

But even there, sort of,

Everyone is subservient to the main story.