SHANE DUFFY GAVE Ireland the perfect start in their World Cup qualifier against Georgia, heading the side into an early lead after just four minutes.
Cyrus Christie curled in a dangerous cross which Georgia goalkeeper Giorgi Makaridze tried to claim with a punch inside the box.
GOAL FOR IRELAND! Shane Duffy takes advantage of some god awful goalkeeping to put Ireland 1-0 up #GEOIRL #RTESoccer pic.twitter.com/5G0QTh56Np
— RTÉ Soccer (@RTEsoccer) September 2, 2017
Duffy, however, rose highest and with a powerful looping header steered the ball beyond the goalkeeper and into the back of the net to give Martin O’Neill’s side the lead.
It was the Brighton defender’s first goal for Ireland on his 12th senior appearance.
Georgia brought the scores level half an hour later, however. Valeri Kazaishvili steered a low effort beyond Darren Randloph as his side continued to put Ireland under significant pressure.
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They need a serious reshuffle SA. They’ll feel they’ve left one get away with Rassie Erasmus
The are talking about getting rid of Coetzee. Any Munster supporters worried they’ll come after Rassie and try and buy him out of his contract. Would be a real shame, Munster are flying under him.
I’m not at least. He’s on a 3 year contract that was partly put together by the IRFU. There’s no getting out of it I don’t think. Besides, he’s enrolled his kids in school here and is settling in well, it’d be difficult for him to uproot his family again.
Johan ackermann will get the job
South Africa are a joke of a team
Rassie was offered the SA job but turned it down. Poisoned chalice that job..
@Niall Colclough: Actually he wasn’t hence why he left.
Just proves the point, no team can cope with political interference… any team that lost to SA this season needs to take a long hard look at themselves.
That’s all but 2 teams really
SA rugby is in the gutter, therefore any team (top 10) not capable (On The Day) of beating a team in the gutter needs to have a long hard look in the mirror.
@Jason Mc Nelis: This is the only thing we agree on!