Stephen Kenny says he has to ‘get creative’ to shackle Mbappe – we assess his options.
Gavin Cooney IRELAND CAN LEGITIMATELY claim to have done a good a job as anyone in world football at shackling Kylian Mbappe this year – Mbappe didn’t manage a shot on target in the March clash at the Aviva Stadium, which is only the third time that’s happened in his 26 games for club and country across 2023.
Turn to Chiedozie Ogbene Ogbene was outstanding as Ireland’s right-sided attacker against France in March, dropping back to support Coleman while springing forward to offer a threat behind France left-back Theo Hernandez. Give the job to one of the centre-halves On Monday, when Nathan Collins was asked about the prospect of being shuffled to right wing-back, he gave the standard answer that he is happy to play in any role once he’s on the pitch.