Gary Breen
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
He'd been winning every header all game.
And no one's blocking him.
So he just has a free run.
And I know Jaime describes it as a luckier flute goal.
And it is essentially because it does come off the back of his head.
There's no real control of where it's going.
But you just think they're the fine margins.
They're the differences.
And I've experienced it.
We couldn't defend a corner in Macedonia.
It cost us winning a group and automatic qualification in 2000.
So that's why it probably hurts me as much to see those kind of failings repeating themselves.
Listen, in terms of reviewing it, which was a cruel, kind of torturous game for the lads to have to go through anyway...
I was kind of like thinking, well, I'm going to go into a real deep dive into it.
I was watching the game thinking, now this is unnecessary as such.
But something really ugly really said, and I just thought, oh my God, this is, I just don't know where we're going here with this.
And it just kind of like gave me more questions that I felt I had to try and find answers to.
I understood in terms of,
you know, a team needs to emerge now for the Nations League.
So time is going to be of the essence.