Stephen Doyle

And, well, a lot of people, based on the record between the two teams, would look at that as a gimme for Shamrock Grovers playing at home.

Pico Lopez will be in action a few hours later for Cape Verde in their final group match against Saudi Arabia.

And they have a brilliant chance of advancing to the knockout stage, which I know Stephen Bradley is hoping Pico can do for his own personal achievements, Vinnie.

But does the longer this Lopez absence go on, the worse it gets for overs?

Well, the two teams that are behind them face off on Friday night.

That is our feature game on Off the Ball.

As I said, Ben Symes will be commentating on that game at Daly Mount Park alongside Keith Tracy.

So it should be a very entertaining night indeed on Off the Ball from seven o'clock.

Bohemians, it's been a weird couple of days for them.

We've dealt with the Kasper Horonjka issue over the last couple of pods or the last pod, I should say.

But they lost at home against Dundalk.

I'm not sure if you caught a surprise or a shock result because Dundalk took points in the earlier match at Daly Mountain Park and were a match, if not more, for Bohemians in that first meeting.

But then after the game, I was just reading quotes from Alan Reynolds speaking to Neil O'Riordan from The Sun.

This is before the Shells match, obviously.

He was just saying...

Following the 4-1 defeat to Derry City, obviously that Dundalk match, we got a reaction early on in the game, but the two goals we gave away, there's a lot of bodies around the ball and they break, so I'm disappointed with that.

One thing is for sure, I won't throw the players under the bus.

We've got to work extremely hard and get ready for Monday.

I was kind of reading that going, well...

It's a strange phrase to reach for there.