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Injury concerns grow for O’Neill
- Updated: October 3, 2016
Republic of Ireland boss Martin O’Neill is taking nothing for granted for the World Cup Qualifier double-header against Georgia and Moldova amid a deepening injury crisis.
Ireland launched their Group D campaign with a 2-2 draw in Serbia, but striker Daryl Murphy, whose strike secured a point in Belgrade, heads a list of players who will miss or remain doubts for Thursday night’s visit of the Georgians to Dublin and the trip to Chisinau three days later.
O’Neill said: “A reasonably decent friend of mine who knows nothing about football spoke to me a few days ago and he mentioned, ‘If you can put six points on the board…’. I nearly throttled him.
“It’s not like that. These games are difficult for us.”
The level of difficulty has risen markedly in tandem with a …
