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       Latvia
       By: Jack Russell Date: September 6, 2022, 9:57 am
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       1-1. A howler of an OG for Latvia.
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       Re: Latvua
       By: RichardM Date: September 6, 2022, 10:33 am
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       Awful game, a real drop in quality when the Women have a few
       players missing, same old NI problem, don't have anybody who can
       score goals.
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       Re: Latvua
       By: EalingGreen Date: September 6, 2022, 11:36 am
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       Finished 3-1 to NI, courtesy of another howler of an OG by
       Latvia on 86 mins, and a third OG in injury time! (Though I
       thought Caragh Hamilton shoulf have been credited with the last
       one)
       As for our lack of goals, when missing Magill, Furness and Wade,
       we were always going to struggle.
       Beyond that, i really do think there was an element of "After
       the Lord Mayor's Show" to our last two performances, not helped
       by reverting to part-time from full-time for most of the
       players.
       Id say that iif you have to learn how to qualify for
       tournaments, and learn again how to contest them when actually
       there, then I guess you have to learrn how to go again after
       they're over, esp if introducing new players, as KS has.
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       Re: Latvua
       By: Simon-613 Date: September 6, 2022, 11:38 am
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       3-1 win in the end but helped hugely by 2 own goals by Latvia.
       Their goalkeeper ended up with a goal and an assist for us.
       It was a very poor performance by us. Disjoined, low energy,
       lacking in any clear discernible strategy ... but we ended up
       with another win. 6 wins from a qualifying group is decent. It's
       easy to say that they were against weak opposition but we've all
       seen our men's team fail to beat weaker opposition on many
       occasions!
       Edit: Just seen EalingGreen's post saying there were 3 own goals
       but that the 3rd one should have been credited to Caragh
       Hamilton. To me, that definitely looked like Hamilton's goal - a
       bit harsh on the Latvians if it's also classed as an own goal!
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       Re: Latvua
       By: eightball Date: September 7, 2022, 5:19 am
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       There certainly seems to be a steel about this group. In the
       past we probably would have dropped points in these games, but
       they keep going and ground out the results despite not being at
       their best. If only the men's team could do the same!
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       Re: Latvua
       By: ern Date: September 7, 2022, 6:16 am
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       I love to see Our wee Country do well in any sport in which we
       compete, including women's football but..............
       the standard of football really is very poor. I know it's not
       the done thing to state this publicly but oh dear. An
       international match played in what looked like a public park,
       watched by 3 men and a dog.  We win after the opposition score 3
       own goals.
       Equal pay for women in football - maybe not just yet!
       Sorry for offending anyone but it's just my humble opinion.
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       Re: Latvua
       By: eightball Date: September 7, 2022, 11:05 am
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       Women's football in Northern Ireland is improving, but it is
       still in it's infancy here. We just need to keep supporting it
       and the money will flow to help it improve.
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       Re: Latvia
       By: richboy Date: September 7, 2022, 12:44 pm
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       [quote author=Simon-613 link=topic=687.msg11442#msg11442
       date=1662482325]
       Edit: Just seen EalingGreen's post saying there were 3 own goals
       but that the 3rd one should have been credited to Caragh
       Hamilton. To me, that definitely looked like Hamilton's goal - a
       bit harsh on the Latvians if it's also classed as an own goal!
       [/quote]
       Looking from this angle in slomo it's definitely another
       goalkeeping howler:
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