How Ireland’s ‘British’ style belatedly caught England off guard

In addition to being 2-0 down against England at the Aviva, they officially had zero shots on target and zero off target.

It is a cliché regularly employed by opposition managers over the years during the customary question at press conferences for an upcoming game. Advertisement Before then, during the reigns of John Giles and Eoin Hand, the side tried to play more constructively for the most part. Yet there is a tendency in modern times, which applies to the Irish men’s and women’s teams, whereby people want the national side to be perceived as sophisticated and at the cutting edge of top-level European football.So on Tuesday, Ireland spent over an hour trying to play with a degree of adventure, a counter-attacking style to catch England out.

Almost immediately, the Drogheda native had a chance to produce one of her customary long throws. This simple action caused a palpable nervousness in an English defence that had coasted through the game until that point.Aside from Campbell, other changes were making an impact too. “They made it a real fight by putting players up front and the throw-ins, which were spectacular,” Wiegeman said afterwards. “We had to really fight in one v ones in the 18-yard box. It’s a lesson for us, if we win the ball, we really want to keep the ball and play out of the press and make our own momentum again, that’s what we struggled with a bit.”

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