Exactly how invested they are in the team’s success.
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Manager Martin O’Neill believes revenge for Henry’s handball is absolutely motivation for Sunday’s game with the French.
Ireland needed a win to progress to the next round and thanks to a 85th minute Robbie Brady goal they will play France in the next round in Lyon on Sunday.
Instead they are preparing for Ireland’s biggest match on the global stage in 14 years.
He said with a smile: “It does seem a disproportionate amount of time that one team has to recover from another”.
He claims that Keane told him that he was “an ugly sod” and that he replied with a barb about the Corkman’s beard. “It was rustling my chin and I don’t want him to hug me again ever”, said O’Neill.
Buffon – who watched the game from the bench as Antonio Conte chose to roll the dice with Salvatore Sirigu – offered an example of how to behave when being on the end of a poor result (we’re looking at you, Cristiano Ronaldo).
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“I then retorted and said he wasn’t Paul Newman either”. An evening that is not to be forgotten. It’s a game that we will look forward to – we must look forward to the game, but not just look forward to it, actually believe that you can compete and win the game. Last night, players and fans fused together in a way that they kept each other going’.
