World Cup Group F qualifier: Republic of Ireland v Armenia, Aviva Stadium, Tuesday, 7.45pm – Live on RTÉ 2
A month on from that defeat to Armenia in Yerevan and Republic of Ireland captain Nathan Collins still can’t make sense of where it all went wrong that night. “Football’s such a mad sport, anything can happen,” he said on Monday. “We just never got going. It really hurt because we knew as a team we were so much better than that.”
Well, if they don’t prove it at the Aviva Stadium on Tuesday evening when they meet Armenia again, then they can, most probably, bid adieu to any hope of qualifying for next summer’s World Cup.
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