Dara Smith-Naughton

Like, home in Dublin with 5-1 revenge on the minds, there's no guarantee.

And Denmark obviously coming in bouncing after their 4-0 win last night.

But it's the promise of the Azteca in the summer.

It's the promise of the heat in Atlanta and...

the green takeover of Guadalajara like what would have been this summer the pints in the beer gardens and the memories with your mates and with your family and in our case with our kids like with your parents you know it felt premature that this is over in the full time I was like there's surely another chance like a desperate addict you're like no that can't be it yeah you're looking at the goalkeeper's feet on the penalty you're like that penalty has to be retaken yeah

If games could be won on vibes alone from fans, then we would have won.

Nathan Collins speaking to Ben Symes after the game last night yeah it's tough lads I'm going to have the ambulance siren blaring oh my god in my ears for a long time the Irish penalties obviously someone in the crowd and in fairness that's what home advantage does for you this means nothing to you two I saw comments about it but I haven't heard it so for context Eve and Dara were out watching this myself and Shane were at home yes

I was half looking outside but not looking outside I did the exact same thing I looked out in the hall I thought it was my child crying in bed I was looking at the monitor I was doing all I was like is this just for the Irish penalties as well and it was it just fit in the crowd yeah it was obviously a megaphone I don't have much of an issue with that that's why we lost yeah team 33 yeah I thought the referee in the first half particularly was easier to give those couple of yellow cards to Irish players the Czechs were getting their warnings very obvious warnings Kufal just before half time had a

2-0 up for four minutes and then he does that and it just lifts the crowd, it gets them back into it.

I think Ireland, if that penalty hadn't been given away, Ireland would have gone on to score a third before half-time, potentially.

The Czechs' body language was horrendous and that just got them right back into it.

I felt it was over when Alan Brown was walking up to take the penalty I watched back the Slovakia penalty that he missed in the playoff in 2020 and he hit it the same side if I'm the keeper and we saw the Czech keeper Simms Callagher getting his final notes before the shootout and looking at who's going to be the Irish penny takers

If he's looking at Alan Brown's notes, he knows he's going to go across his own body and go into his own left, the keeper's right.

And he did.

Like, so, so predictable.

He takes a stutter, Brown, on his first step.

He still has three steps to go to the ball.

The keeper's not going to go anywhere.

It was so silly.

It was really... It was a nervy penalty and I'm not going to hold it against him.