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Joseph Chipolina\u2019s own goal and a late effort from substitute Robbie Brady handed Ireland a Euro 2020 qualifying victory over Gibraltar.<\/p>\nJoseph Chipolina\u2019s own goal and a late effort from substitute Robbie Brady handed Ireland a Euro 2020 qualifying victory over Gibraltar.<\/p>\n
On a night when 36,281 turned up at the Aviva Stadium hoping for a goal-fest, Mick McCarthy\u2019s men needed a stroke of good fortune to set them on their way to three points courtesy of a 2-0 win which keeps them at the top of Group D with 10 from their opening four games.<\/p>\n
Ireland, whose arrival at Lansdowne Road was delayed when they had to change buses after a mechanical failure, misfired despite dominating possession against stubborn opposition and took the lead when David McGoldrick\u2019s 29th-minute shot hit the unfortunate Chipolina and ended up in the net.<\/p>\n
McGoldrick later struck an upright before Brady came off the bench to score in added-time but the game ended with he and fellow frontmen Callum Robinson, Scott Hogan and Sean Maguire still awaiting a first goal for their country and having seen a golden opportunity pass them by.<\/p>\n
McCarthy had insisted in the run-up to the game that the style in which his side won did not concern him as long as they won, and admitted he would take a goal going in off somebody\u2019s backside if it secured three points.<\/p>\n
His comments proved somewhat prophetic and while he may be satisfied with the result and elements of the performance, the cutting edge his team will need to convert a decent start into qualification with far more testing fixtures to come during the second half of the campaign was sadly lacking.<\/p>\n