Yep, who would have thought that Whelan was actually capable of playing some simple balls around the midfield? Obviously not Trap and MON anyway, because apparently only Spain are allowed to do that.
Some very good play today but feck do we miss some proper forwards. Fair fecks to McGoldrick that is the only game I've ever actually seen him play well but still, at the end of the day when any of them got within 25 yards of goal they produced feck all. Shit crosses galore and some nice linkup play through the middle that just constantly broke down in the final stage.
From the overall play we should have had the game comfortably in the bag but instead it was a nervy ending. Still have little expectation of actually being able to score a goal.
An actual enjoyable game though, which shit I can't really ask for more considering what we've been served up for years.
We have such a shit group too. It's such a shame the squad has just been getting weaker and weaker. You add back in Robbie Keane and John O'Shea and suddenly everything would be different. As it is though, we couldn't buy a goal so we won't stand much chance. Style wise today was a step in the right direction though and I hope we continue on it. We had the same under MON though, few nice proper games playing football and then just back to Glenn Whelan hoofing balls from our 18 yard box.