Stephen Kenny has drastically changed Ireland’s player pool – but if anyone is to benefit from his work, it won’t be him.
Gavin Cooney STEPHEN KENNY’S REIGN as Ireland manager has been the steady accumulation of narrow margins, on which his side have always been on the wrong side.
Ascribing causes to these trends is an unsatisfactory thing to do, as it’s hard to alight on one or two tangible reasons as to why Ireland have been so ineffective in so many key moments as they have been. They have changed personnel; they have changed systems; they have changed approach. Nothing has worked.
We can compare the average ages of squads. According to WyScout, Ireland’s average age in this Euro 2024 campaign is 25.6, which makes them the second-youngest across all of the 54 teams involved in qualifying. Asked by The 42 whether he believes, on reflection, that it was unrealistic to have expected this Ireland side to qualify for Euro 2024, Kenny demurred slightly.
Reflecting on the ruinous defeat in Athens, Kenny said, “we’ve seen it down the years when teams don’t play well away from home but you defend right and you don’t concede. The frustrating thing is that not every game is going to go according to play but we should have dug out at least a draw in the game and had the capacity to do that but didn’t.
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