Finn Azaz has no intention of dressing it up. There will be no excuses tossed out to explain away what happened in Armenia, only a desire that what happens now on Saturday in Portugal can revive Ireland’s faltering World Cup qualification campaign.
Azaz played 70 minutes in Yerevan last month as Ireland shipped a 2-1 defeat in a qualifier billed as must win, or at the very least must not lose. Because of that result Ireland’s qualification hopes are already perched on a cliff edge after two games.
“We all know that we’ve let people down, let ourselves down,” says Azaz.
“Now it’s just a case of looking towards the next two games to put it right and that’s the feeling right now, there is an anger ther
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