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Published 20:36 5 Sept 2017 BST
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Against the best team in the group, Ireland didn't cower. They went toe-to-toe with them, they put them under pressure and on the back foot and, yes, whilst the opposition broke forward on occasion too, there was enough to just keep them at bay. And we regrouped and went at it again.
It's not suddenly a brilliant group of world-beating players overnight but it's a team with intent, looking to make inroads and, when the crowd see that, they'll forgive technical shortcomings every second.
This is a game Ireland were sent out to win and, suddenly, it became very apparent that they were more than capable of doing just that.
Watching the performance was bitter-sweet though because it was hard to rid the nagging feeling that we fecked it all up at the weekend.
If Ireland have a team good enough to really frighten Serbia, they could've just went to Georgia and beat the lowest seeded team in the group.
https://twitter.com/thomasniblock/status/905144925079183368
Instead, we've given ourselves the most thankless of tasks by having to topple the best when the gap with Wales would've been preserved with a simple win in Georgia.
https://twitter.com/JamesjQuinn/status/905144918057795584
They've proven they're good enough and as much credit as O'Neill deserves for making the changes, he deserves criticism for the plan on Saturday.
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