\u201cGutted, flat, devastated,\u201d were the first three words Jayson Molumby used to describe how he felt following the Republic of Ireland\u2019s narrow loss to Portugal.<\/p>\n
R\u00faben Neves\u2019 injury-time header from substitute Francisco Trinc\u00e3o\u2019s precise cross denied Ireland what could have been a crucial point in their bid to reach the World Cup in North America next summer.<\/p>\n
It was a point Molumby feels they deserved for their efforts, but in the end it wasn\u2019t to be and the Irish squad must now pick themselves up for the visit of Armenia on Tuesday night where only a win will surely be enough to keep their hopes of reaching the tournament alive.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we deserved at least a point there,\u201d continued the West Brom midfielder.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don’t manage the game for one moment where we get a throw-in in their half and we take it quick, or we’re not quite set up and then they go on the counter.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be fair to the back line, it’s probably the first cross where\u2026 I haven’t seen it back\u2026 but someone’s got a nick on it, or someone’s went and passed a header or whatever but it\u2019s gutting, gutting.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we got back to an Irish performance. It’s the minimum to run, fight, work hard, give everything.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe lacked that in the last few games or whatever, it’s just the bare minimum.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn another day I think we deserved a point at least but obviously we didn’t get it.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can take comfort, yeah, but it’s the minimum. It’s just about the bare minimum; you’re playing for Ireland. I’m obviously really proud to play for Ireland and it’s been tough.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to be the exact same (against Armenia), with and without the ball, maybe a bit better on the ball, but out of possession, you can’t go away from the basics of football and that’s running, fighting hard.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt doesn’t matter who you’re playing, you can’t slack off whatsoever, so we need to raise it again even on Tuesday against Armenia.<\/p>\n
\u201cTonight’s done, it’s another loss. It is what it is, we need to answer on Tuesday and go and beat Armenia.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don’t really care how I play; I just want to play for Ireland and achieve something with Ireland.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don’t care if I play well or play bad, I want to be involved and try and achieve something with my country.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cGutted, flat, devastated,\u201d were the first three words Jayson Molumby used to describe how he felt following the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1113,61,60,2539,5782,43,5783],"class_list":{"0":"post-77231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-fai","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-league-of-ireland","12":"tag-local-soccer","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-premiership"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77231","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=77231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}