Republic of Ireland stalwart Seamus Coleman says he is confident the squad are not carrying the pain of the country’s failed qualifying bids before Thursday’s World Cup play-off semi-final against the Czech Republic. <\/p>\n
The Irish suffered agonising World Cup play-off defeats by France and Denmark before the 2010 and 2018 tournaments. <\/p>\n
However, Coleman believes the majority of the current squad are too young to be affected by those losses and instead feels they are driven by a desire to create special memories for the Irish fans, thousands of whom have travelled to Prague despite not having a ticket for the match (19:45 GMT).<\/p>\n
“It’s difficult to say if it’s fuelling the players, they’re all so young,” said former captain Coleman. <\/p>\n
“Obviously the nation was hurt massively, but in terms of the current group of players I don’t think they’re dwelling too much on that hurt. <\/p>\n
“To be honest, we’re just riding the wave off the confidence we’ve got as a group, which I think this young group deserves off the last two games. We’re looking forward to Thursday and what comes after that. <\/p>\n
“To see how the nation is feeling now is incredible and we’ve a duty to make them even happier.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Republic of Ireland stalwart Seamus Coleman says he is confident the squad are not carrying the pain of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-364315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364315","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=364315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}