Republic of Ireland manager Stephen Kenny delivered an uncomfortable post-match interview to RTE's Tony O'Donoghue after yet another defeat.
Speaking to Ireland's fast start in the opening quarter of the game, the under-fire manager remarked;
RTE interviewer Tony O'Donoghue then pressed Kenny further by saying:"It looked like Holland were there for the taking," Going on to describe the positional change of Cody Gakpo to play higher up the left-hand side of the pitch as the turning point in the defeat, the former Dundalk boss offered up his reasoning as to why Ireland faded away late on."I'm not trying to make excuses, but the 90 minutes in Paris where we put phenomenal effort in three days ago probably had an impact."
"Yeah, you do need to get results. Obviously we had a World Cup campaign where we finished third in the group behind Serbia and Portugal, where we blooded over 20 players.
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