Netherlands vs Republic of Ireland Preview: Live from Utrecht | 2027 WC Qualifiers | OFF THE BALL
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From the barrios of Buenos Aires to the roaring nights of Madrid, this episode traces the extraordinary journey of Alfredo Di Stefano, the visionary who redefined modern football. Born in Argentina, forged in the breakaway leagues of Colombia with Millonarios and immortalised in Spain, he became the heartbeat of a dynasty. But what if the man they called La Sayeta Rubia had taken a different path and gone to Real Madrid's biggest rivals, Barcelona? Find out on episode 6 of Richie McCormick's Sliding Doors podcast as to how European football could have been changed as we know it. Coming to you this Monday in your OTB Football podcast feed for free. Irish football on Off the Ball. Brought to you by Cadbury, a proud sponsor of the Republic of Ireland football teams.
This is News Talk. This is Off the Ball Saturday here on News Talk. John Duggan with you three to five. And we can now check in with our reporter Kathleen McNamee in Utrecht, head of the Republic of Ireland's game against the Netherlands tonight in the Women's World Cup qualifier. How are you, Kathleen? I'm doing good, John. It's very misty here in Utrecht after leaving a blue sky Dublin. So I'm going the wrong way, apparently. Well, hopefully the team are going the right way this evening, Kathleen. First of all, the players have got to pick themselves up after a really heartbreaking night here tonight. Yeah, it's going to be a difficult one. And the news of Denise O'Sullivan's injury isn't really going to help with that either.
She's obviously such a pivotal player for the team. I was in Tala on Tuesday night and it's one of the best performances I've seen from this team. And as you know, like I've followed them all around the world at this stage. I thought the physicality, the determination, there was a... There was a mindset there that I don't think I've seen from this team. You know, one of the big things that they've had to struggle with is whenever they go ahead or whenever they're playing really well, just that time either side of halftime, either about 10, 15 minutes before or 10, 15 minutes afterwards is Sometimes the concentration can fall a little bit. And now we did see it happen a little bit later on when Melvin Mallard came on.
But I think that was as much about her skill as a player. And, you know, she's doing incredibly well for Manchester United at the moment as well. compared to what we've seen from them before where they totally shut off. So definitely I would have been interested to hear what Carla Ward has been saying to them all week to try and get them into a headspace where, you know, you played really well, but maybe just didn't get the result that they wanted on Tuesday. What are we going to miss now with Denise Sullivan's absence? Well, Megan Connolly was talking about it in the press conference yesterday and said when Denise isn't on the pitch, it's like you're missing two players. And that is really how key she is to this Arsenal team.
Now, the knee injury that she has is one that she has been struggling with for about a year now. She actually missed one of her first ever Ireland camps as a result of it last year. So what you're missing is just her speed, her technical ability, her ability ability to make something out of nothing you know she was really crucial to the role that Emily Murphy played on Tuesday that was really successful in terms of us being able to get behind the French defence alongside Katie McCabe so just not having someone of her stature and experience on the pitch is massive as well as the what you're losing out in what she does because she does do the job of multiple players she can play in many different positions you know
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