Netherlands 2-1 Ireland | Reaction with Kathleen McNamee
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Irish Football on Off The Ball. Brought to you by Cadbury. A proud sponsor of the Republic of Ireland football teams. This is Newstalk. Welcome back to Off the Ball Sunday here on Newstalk. John Duggan with you through to seven. So Dyson Maida had the ball in the Rangers net but ruled out for offside. So still goalers between Rangers and Celtic in the Scottish Cup at Ibrox. In the FA Cup at the moment, Fulham 0, Southampton 0 and Port Vale 0, Sunderland 0. So the Republic of Ireland lost 2-1 to the Netherlands in their World Cup qualifier last night. The Women's World Cup qualifiers for Brazil in 2027. Let's check in with our reporter in Utrecht, Kathleen McNamee. Afternoon, Kathleen. Afternoon, John. This has been a really unfortunate week in ways.
I mean, we've come up empty-handed after two 2-1 defeats against top sides. The players and the management, they must be just gutted. Yeah, the devastation that there was around the place last night was definitely very different to anything that I've seen in a long time, to be honest, from that team. You know, we talked to a couple of players. We talked to Carla Ward afterwards. You could even see the body language on the pitch whenever the game finished that they were really upset. And I think the thing is that we've seen probably two of the best performances that this team has ever put in. And yet we've still come up short and been undone by... like really, really good opposition. I think there's a lot of times when we look back, you know, you think of the Ukraine games when we were trying to qualify for the Euros or the Welsh games again, where we were coming up against opposition that we knew we should have beaten.
We knew we should have... gone further but we just didn't play to our skill whereas this time we've come up against two world-class teams we've put in a serious shift it's looked like I mean last night it was the 82nd minute before the Dutch actually managed to get through us and properly win out the game and then they spent the last 10 or so minutes with added time time wasting and just trying to keep the ball out of play and you know I think that was something that everyone really reflected on last night was that we are actually being properly respected by these top tier teams. And that's something that has just come from years of development and hopefully is something that we can bring into the polling game in a month or so's time.
You wonder what would have happened as well if we'd had Denise Sullivan last night. Yeah, I think it would have made a massive difference, to be perfectly honest. I think in the first half, we really, really saw her absence. It was interesting, you know, Lucy Quinn was the player that was decided to come in in the first half to kind of replace Denise. And whenever the team sheets were handed out in the media room in Utrecht, it was probably the one name that basically every single journalist didn't expect to see. And I think she had an essentially impossible role in trying to come in there and replace Denise. But I think what I really noticed, and even some of the players said it afterwards, was that it was almost, I think it was in their heads that they didn't have Denise there.
And there was passes going astray. There was, you know, different breaking balls that were happening. Normally those are the sort of things that Denise would scoop up and she would practice. do something with and that just wasn't happening at all in that first half last night and it was really disappointing to see because we had been so strong against France in Tala on Tuesday but I thought it was really interesting because then in the second half that totally changed and it was the team that we saw in Tala and there was no substitute so it was purely just uh a case of the team going in at halftime having a talk and saying okay we need to change things and I asked Anna Patton about this last night and I just assumed it was Carla Ward you know so I asked her what did Carla Ward say to you guys and she said no it was actually Katie that brought us all together and told us that we need to be better and I think we can hear a clip from Anna here now talking about what Katie said at halftime
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–4:39
2
What were the key moments in the Netherlands vs. Ireland match?
4:39–6:58
3
How did Kathleen McNamee describe the team's emotional state after the defeat?
6:58–8:50
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What were the standout performances from the Ireland team?
8:50–15:39
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