Megan Connolly

You know, Jamie Finn, she's gotten a lot of her caps from right back.

Similarly, Megan Connolly, she's been center back.

They were both in midfield today.

So that's in preparation for a harder opposition, 'cause you could easily have dropped Emily Murphy back another step and brought in another striker and, and gone down that route.

You know, you'd think could they have some kind of outlet or at least, you know, try to hit it up the line on the side that they've been pressurized or something, but they really offered nothing going forward.

But again, like you have to look at the Rankins and that golf in class as well but yeah I think the early goal followed up by the other couple of goals too really sort of took the pressure off Ireland and these kind of games in the past maybe if you hadn't scored early like it can give the other opposition a lot of confidence and they have something to cling on to that try to cling on to that point or in this case even a narrow loss would have been a great result for Kazakhstan so I think yeah the early goals really kind of relieved that pressure and let the girls play with a lot of confidence and freedom and then they could show really what they're all about and even through the middle like in midfield Megan Connolly I thought really stood up as a leader she's the most experienced person on the pitch and so she kind of dominated that first half and then I think it was Tyler Toole and then filled in for her in the second half.

Things did

go from bad to worse for Kazakhstan, Maeve.

Yeah.

Megan Connolly, Katie McCabe.

Mm.

Mm.