Mikel Arteta

But he's by no means a bad player and he's added a few goals to his game randomly enough as well over the last couple of weeks.

But he's definitely worth his place in the Ireland squad by the sounds of it.

Yeah, like I know...

Hamer's quite keen to have him around the squad because he's just like bringing such a positive energy and I think when Ireland beat Hungary obviously in Budapest Hamer had that speech kind of famously after the game that was kind of clipped and put in socials and he talked obviously about Seamus Coleman being like a what was the thing like an energy source not an energy vacuum and I think Jimmy Dunne is yeah and Jimmy Dunne I think is kind of that similar similar kind of character it seems

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We are top of the table, we play at home against a really, really good opponent and we want to maintain our position and in order to do that we're going to have to be excellent throughout the game to win the game and that's the point we have to prove.

We can go again and again, every week we have a point to prove.

He was waiting for it.

Hello, good morning.

Yeah, they're going well.

Very different to our usual preparations.

But, yeah, we are getting all the protocols right.

The players are getting used to it.

It's been a challenge for the coaches, but we are happy how it's going.

No, we're trying different things.

We're trying to give minutes in the legs to all the players.

Obviously, you have to change a lot of players through the games.

Getting adapted to playing in an empty stadium as well and not getting that energy from the fans.

But it was good.

We played two families to get a little bit the rhythm.