A narrow 1-0 loss to the co-hosts showed Ireland can compete with Canada and Nigeria for the knockout rounds.
Gavin Cooney TWENTY-THREE YEARS after Sonia O’Sullivan showed there is dignity in finishing second-best at Stadium Australia in Sydney, the Ireland women’s national team asserted her truth.
All of Australia were instead sent into a lurch 75 minutes before kick off, when the Australia team was posted without Kerr’s name featuring. Kerr, the Matildas’ social media team said with exquisite understatement, was out with a calf injury. And amid it all, trust RTÉ to fail to provide the backing sounds. The first-half was an omnishambles. If you were fortunate to have had the option to watch on ITV, imagine RTÉ’s commentary as Gabriele Szabo and the pictures as Sonia: painfully, teeth-grindingly, eternally, ahead. The problem wasn’t fixed until half-time, after a nation sighed its breath.
Abbie Larkin and Lucy Quinn provided effective spark off the bench for Ireland, and in spite of their lack of forward guile, only the harshest judge would quibble had Ireland got a draw. True, the bulk of Ireland’s chances – and half-chances – came from set pieces, though Payne miscued an opportunity amid a penalty box scramble, while the chance fell to the person late in stoppage time.
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