Ireland

Scotland v Republic of Ireland: Nations League — live

24-Sep-2022 18:42:18 | Guardian

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The teams are out! Scotland wear their dark blue, while Ireland change into orange. A fantastic atmosphere in Hampden. We’ll be off once the anthems are passionately sung, given the pantomime bird, etc.

Stephen Kenny’s turn. “The thing about international football is between our last window, when we finished strongly in Ukraine, it’s 96 days. That’s a considerable length of time. We’re excited about the game. We’re ready for it. We set a standard against Scotland and in Poland against Ukraine. We respect Scotland, who had a great win in midweek, but we want a similarly vibrant performance. Technically the players can all take the ball, I encourage that and want that. But the traditional Irish values are very important as well: passion, intensity and ability to work for each other and win the ball back.”