Rep Ire vs Bulgaria
International Match
7:45pm Tuesday 10th September

Aviva Stadium

Because he came off the bench to seal a 3-1 friendly victory over 23, james Collins enjoyed a dream Republic of Ireland debut.
The Luton striker added his name with four minutes remaining as Mick McCarthy’s understudies made the pressure tell by a late surge.
Kevin Long and alan Browne had earlier scored first goals to their nation either side of both Ivelin Popov’s 66th-minute punishment as Ireland hit three in a game for the very first time as they beat Uruguay in June 2017 by exactly the identical score.
There has been an impressive introduction from Charlton midfielder Josh Cullen, while Browne and Alan Judge got minutes on the stage ahead of next month’s catchy European Qualifier double-header in Switzerland and Georgia.
McCarthy, who’s now unbeaten in six matches since starting his second spell in charge, will need to create at least one change in Tbilisi with full-back Enda Stevens suspended, even though it is unlikely that anything he watched Tuesday evening will present him with genuine selection dilemmas.
He was as good after promising to check the thickness of his team, making 10 changes from the side which drew 1-1 with the evening, in the process handing debuts to 20-year-old Bournemouth keeper Mark Travers and Cullen.
Opposite amount Krasimir Balakov gave 37-year-old keeper Hristo Ivanov a first appearance since he made eight changes to the team beaten 4-0 from England on Saturday, and he very nearly had 2 clearances.
Nevertheless, it was the people who threatened from set pieces throughout the exchanges, Georgi Pashov forcing a regulation rescue from fellow and Travers defender Kristian Dimitrov going , both by Nikolay Dimitrov
corners.
Judge cleared Ivanov’s crossbar with a header and then saw the keeper assert his deflected shot after great work by Hogan, Callum O’Dowda and Cyrus Christie, but despite their dominance in the middle of the pitch, McCarthy’s men were trying hard to create meaningful openings.
Cullen chased back to make a vital block and then deny Daniel Mladenov afterwards he broke obvious 12 minutes until the break and Ronan Curtis drilled wide from space in the end eight minutes afterwards.
However, Hogan merely failed to find a foot with Ivanov to the Portsmouth midfielder’s cross on the stroke of half-time.
Ireland pinned the people but squandered promising places with balls that were final with Browne sitting deeper at the start of the second half.
Bulgaria responded and’d skipper John Egan not been in the ideal place at the perfect time, Mladenov might have opened the scoring after hammering against the defender’s legs around the flip and commanding the pull-back of Ivan Goranov.
However, it had been the Republic who took the lead with 56 minutes when Ivanov’s night took a turn for the worse when he spilled Curtis’ shot and Hogan fed the ball across goal to score.
As Hogan and Judge created way mcCarthy handed caps to Collins and Jack Byrne, and also the Shamrock Rovers midfielder whistled a shooter wide.
Bulgaria have been given a method back into the match with 24 minutes remaining he fed striker Bozhidar Kraev, who had been tripped Popov and by Egan duly falsified and when full-back Christie possession to Goranov from the
spot.
Their joy was short lived when Long powered house Byrne corner along with Collins fellow substitute Steven’s cross three minutes later to acquire it, as Ireland acquired themselves out of prison.

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