Carla Ward said Ireland\u2019s late defeat to Netherlands was \u2018sickening\u2019, promising the benefits will be seen in the remainder of the campaign.<\/p>\n
A 2-1 loss to France, the fifth highest European ranked team in the world, was followed by the same result against the nation sitting one place behind.<\/p>\n
Zero points from this opening double-header of the World Cup campaign doesn\u2019t tell the full story as Ireland had their moments to eke out a draw in each.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s tough to take – sickening really,\u201d said Ward after Lineth Beerensteyn\u2019s winning goal eight minutes from full-time in Utrecht.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe pride ourselves on defending set-pieces and it\u2019s just a moment.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe players executed the gameplan and I thought about us winning the game after we equalised.<\/p>\n
\u201cOver the last four days we\u2019ve played two of the best teams and been disappointed not to get something. They\u2019ve left everything out there.<\/p>\n
\u201cOverall we limited the Dutch to very little. We saw the dark arts from them.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0Player of the match Emily Murphy also spoke of how the Dutch tried to wind the clock down once they retook the lead.<\/p>\n
\u201cKatie McCabe said we had the Netherlands time-wasting – which we must take pride in.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are things we have to look at and rest and recharge for the next window.\u201d That journey takes them to Gdansk on April 14.<\/p>\n
Poland, having reached the last Euros and held the Dutch to a 2-2 draw on Tuesday, will fancy nailing the third spot to facilitate an easier path to next year\u2019s World Cup. The return match is at Lansdowne Road four days later on April 18.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe should take massive pride from these two displays and push on to the next level,\u201d added Newcastle United forward Murphy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carla Ward said Ireland\u2019s late defeat to Netherlands was \u2018sickening\u2019, promising the benefits will be seen in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1113,61,60,2539,5782,43,5783],"class_list":["post-334841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-fai","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-league-of-ireland","tag-local-soccer","tag-news","tag-premiership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}