Keith Treacy

I would have classed myself as a technically gifted, quite composed player, but when it came to penalties, I was all over the place.

When you look at the environment that Alan Brown is in now with the Irish squad, or was in with the Irish squad, I think it's quite a forgiving environment.

When you look at when Bakayo Saka missed a penalty for England in the Euros, that type of environment was absolutely red hot.

Thankfully, Saka seems to have bounced back and be absolutely fine from it.

I'm sure the Irish lads will be fine and although it's obviously a huge chance miss, we're all sitting here looking at Cechia beating Denmark and thinking that could have been us.

I think there's an evolution in our play and we are getting better and stronger and we've bridged that gap to the Euros proper or the World Cup proper.

Yeah, it was strange.

There was a lot of people saying to me prior to the Chechya game, you know, if this goes all the way and we go to penalties, I back us to win it because we have Cuivene Keller.

I think Cuivene's a brilliant goalkeeper, one of the best goalkeepers in the Premier League right now and his ceiling is so, so high that he could go on to be an elite, elite goalkeeper.

But the goalkeeper for Chesky plays for PSV.

He's not exactly a Sunday League goalkeeper that you can just smack it down the middle and it's going to go in regardless.

So it was never going to be as straightforward as that.

Cuivin got so close to the forced penalty as well.

He sort of gets his hand to it.

If it's a bit stronger, maybe he saves it.

Yes, I'm very reluctant, and I'm sure everybody is, to give out about any of the players.

I thought they all emptied the tank, but missing a penalty, it really is a lottery, to be honest, because it's up to the goalkeeper as well.

We're all saying here that you make your mind up and you don't change.

If you see the goalkeeper reading his Lucas A bottle and it says...

Tracy's last four penalties he's gone to the left all of a sudden you're thinking well I always go to left he knows I always go left now so I'm going to go right but maybe he's thinking I'm going to go right so I go down the middle and then when you take your fourth step he's still standing in the middle of the goal and you start to panic and it's just it's crazy but mental strength comes into it and sometimes you know just get a centre half up there and tell him to well you