Tourinnois FC 1

On a surprisingly good looking Tourinnois pitch the boys in green came to secure their fourth win and fifth clean sheet in a row; it didn’t quite turn out that way. Off to a bland sloppy start Ireland were being beaten both with and without the ball. The punishment didn’t last much to come, as 15 minutes in a seemingly innocuous free kick far down the left ended up right at FCI’s far post, everybody just watching it pass through untouched. And that wasn’t even enough to wake the team up. As it continued not playing its passing football and getting into Tourinnois’ trap, Ireland conceded a second goal five minutes later, out of a scrappy high ball that for some reason Max didn’t manage to touch before it reached their striker’s head. 2-0. Ireland did however show pride after that, back to playing nice football and creating two great opportunities that Thomas P was close to but couldn’t convert, unfortunately. HT, and luck was definitely not on FCI’s side. No strong reaction in the second half, allowing a deflected cross to end up right on Tourinnois’ striker’s head again, netted perfectly in the top right hand corner. 3-0, and despite a nice passing sequence that led to a right-footed Lolo goal (3-1), heads were down and it looked like the game was already lost. And it was indeed, as an anecdotic and unlucky penalty awarded by Matteo’s hand topped this shit team performance up. Ireland didn’t put things right in the first place, and the elements never went its way either. A day to forget.

MOTM : Max