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Under-fire manager Stephen Kenny was spared further punishment as the Republic of Ireland eased to a 4-0 Euro 2024 qualifying victory over Gibraltar sabong
Brighton teenager Evan Ferguson fired the visitors into an eighth-minute lead at the Estadio Algarve with his third senior international goal before Celtic winger Mikey Johnston, Wolves defender Matt Doherty and substitute Callum Robinson struck to wrap up just a second win of the Group B campaign sabong
Kenny had gone into the game insisting he would remain in charge until a review of his reign has been carried out after November’s fixtures, although a poor result here would only have increased the clamour for change sabong
In the event, Ireland negotiated a game they should have won comfortably with the minimum of fuss to complete a double over the minnows ahead of next month’s trip to the Netherlands sabong
Once again, there will be only pride at stake in Amsterdam, with hopes of automatic qualification having been extinguished by Friday night’s 2-0 home defeat by Greece, and even the possibility of a play-off place looks ever more faint by the day sabong
The games against Gibraltar, who have now played 44 European Championship and World Cup qualifiers and not collected a single point, were never going to be the yardstick for the sabong Football Association of Ireland’s review and, while embarrassment was avoided with ease, difficult questions remain for a manager whose 28 competitive fixtures have yielded just six wins sabong
Kenny, who once again deployed a back four rather than his usual three, handed Johnston a first senior international start in the search for much-needed creativity sabong
However, it was from the opposite flank that the visitors struck first when Chiedozie Ogbene rolled a pass into the overlapping Doherty’s run and the unmarked Ferguson steered his eighth-minute cross past helpless goalkeeper Dayle Coleing sabong
Luton striker Ogbene continued to look Ireland’s most potent weapon from wide on the right and, with Josh Cullen probing from central midfield, they dominated possession without creating clear-cut openings sabong
They might have extended their lead when Ryan Manning’s 24th-minute corner was allowed to travel across the six-yard-box untouched, but Shane Duffy was unable to stab it home beyond the far post sabong
Coleing was forced to palm away Johnston’s swerving attempt after he had skipped past Tjay de Barr and Liam Walker seconds later sabong
The Celtic man did get his name on the scoresheet with 29 minutes gone when Doherty accepted another Ogbene pass in the space sabong between defenders Jayce Olivero and John Sergeant and crossed for the winger to slide in and, after his initial attempt had come back off a post, bundle the rebound across the line sabong
Coleing had to race from his line to prevent Johnston from reaching Jamie McGrath’s defence-splitting pass seven minutes before the break and then blocked Ferguson’s stabbed effort after Johnston had pulled the ball back sabong
Walker mustered Gibraltar’s first effort in stoppage time after De Barr robbed Johnston and ran into space down the right, but the midfielder’s attempt flew harmlessly wide sabong
Coleing plucked McGrath’s header out of the night sky after he had connected with Ogbene’s cross and then blocked Jason Knight’s firm drive, but he was a relieved man when Duffy’s volley from a Johnston corner flew just wide in a flurry of activity at the start of the second half sabong
Knight sent a diving header wide from Johnston’s 51st-minute cross with the Gibraltar defence at sixes and sevens and Ferguson was unable to hit the target with a free-kick from 25 yards as the Republic looked to kill off the game sabong
Johnston saw a shot deflected wide on the hour but then delivered a corner which was cleverly flicked on by McGrath for Doherty to head past the keeper from point-blank range sabong
Substitute Robinson completed the job with an 80th-minute header to match the 4-0 scoreline when the sides last met in Faro in 2015 sabong
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Up into the stands the England players clambered to find their families, taking the consolatory hugs but unsure quite how to feel sabong
Across 80 minutes in Paris, their belief had been replaced by disbelief and then by desperation and dejection, England threatening the unthinkable and taking the world champions to the brink sabong
For most of a sodden Stade de France evening, a Rugby World Cup final was within their grasp sabong
A South Africa side superior in most areas were dragged down into the sort of slugfest the Springboks would usually favour, and very nearly bested at their own game sabong
England had given their all but it was still not enough, one stable scrum, one Handre Pollard slip or slice, short of stunning the world champions sabong
The emotional maelstrom of this defeat will swirl rather differently to the feelings that eddied after the 2019 World Cup final disaster sabong
“I’m proud of our performance,” were virtually the first words out of the mouth of wing Elliot Daly sabong
“I think we shocked them sabong
I don’t think they knew how to get into the game sabong
”“I think we knew what was coming and we knew we could perform like this,” added Daly, virtually unused in open play but outstanding as a kick chaser to exemplify the squad’s buy-in to a strategy that so nearly proved successful sabong
The finer points of Steve Borthwick’s tactical plan had been put in place this week but this was a performance England had been building towards since long ago sabong
A flawed side did not come to France to thrill; winning by any means necessary had been a consistent theme sabong
If necessity is oft the mother of invention, England at this tournament have also proved the pair can be enemies sabong
This was a campaign at which they seemed to intentionally limit their attacking innovation or ingenuity– recognising a need to figure themselves out on the fly, they settled on an effective and eminently executable gameplan that could be implemented quickly sabong
Steve Borthwick consoles Ellis Genge and Freddie Steward after England’s defeat (Getty Images)It came so close to working in Saturday’s semi-final; their effort, accuracy and competitiveness in the key contests were spot on sabong
At the 65-minute mark, England outside backs had a combined 17 metres carried, all from one Freddie Steward kick return sabong
The two number 13s’ offensive output on the final whistle amounted to one late Joe Marchant lug; South Africa centre Jesse Kriel went the full 80 minutes without an attacking touch sabong
“We came with a plan to win the game but we fell a little bit short,” reflected Borthwick sabong
“But the players should be incredibly proud sabong
We put ourselves in a position to win against the world champions sabong
England dominated the aerial contest to threaten a semi-final shock (Getty Images)“We were playing against a coaching team who have been in place since 2018 sabong
We’ve had four months sabong
I’ve asked the players to approach training and the game in a different way; for the players to be willing to change is all credit to them sabong
”This was a night from which the head coach will take heart, a public perhaps struggling to warm to this England team are now recognising the progress made sabong
There will be a need to layer on much, much more to consistently mix it with the world’s best but the rapidly laid foundations look rock solid sabong
In time, perhaps the ugly duckling performances will turn into white swans sabong
There appear to be many more buds of a bright future than first appeared in a barren landscape pre-tournament sabong
Ben Earl has had a breakthrough tournament, and Ollie Chessum, too, while George Martin semi-final performance marks him out as the potential enforcer England have lacked sabong
Borthwick was keen to talk up the absent Marcus Smith the day after the defeat, with the playmaker’s reinvention as a frolicking full-back of intrigue moving forward sabong
"In our 23, seven players are 25 or under, the most of any semi-finalist, there’s a great blend and there will be lots of things we can take forward,” added Borthwick sabong
Young England lock George Martin impressed against South Africa (Getty Images)But the fact that the men’s national team were on the brink of back-to-back finals should not provide a façade over the crumbling edifice of a fragile English game sabong
There is a domestic mess that needs sorting, with a Gallagher Premiership containing three teams fewer than at the start of last season, now underway to little fanfare and on the brink of significant change sabong
The renegotiation of the Professional Game Partnership is a recognition of a need for a radical overhaul in pursuit of a more financially sustainable domestic game, and one that produces a wider pool of top-class talent sabong
The likely arrival of a form of central contracts underlines a period of epochal change sabong
The senior figures in the squad who are unlikely to play beyond this tournament – Courtney Lawes, Ben Youngs, Dan Cole and perhaps a couple more – could well be the last England men’s internationals never to have been contracted to the union sabong
This has a great many benefits, not least in affording Borthwick, or any head coach that might follow him, far greater access to and control over his players sabong
And while Borthwick’s articulation of the advantages enjoyed by South Africa’s settled staff is a perfectly fair one, let us remember that the Rugby sabong Football Union (RFU) put their head coach in this situation sabong
The original planning for this tournament would most likely have seen Borthwick return to England camp to aid Eddie Jones at the World Cup before a smooth transition into the lead role afterwards sabong
Jones’s sacking sparked a scramble and several months of chaos sabong
It was not shown up on semi-final weekend but there are many reasons that the RFU still has a burden to bear sabong
But the full wash-up will wait for another week – England’s performance at the Stade de France has earned them seven more days of grace sabong
The tournament will end as it began for England with a meeting with Argentina in a third-place play-off that Borthwick insists he wants to win sabong
England, captained by Owen Farrell, narrowly missed out on a place in the World Cup final (Getty Images)“I read a piece yesterday morning that talked about adversity and talked about the fact that in adversity you find that seed of belief and you’ve got to grow it,” Borthwick said sabong
“This team has been through a bit in the last few years, a bit of adversity in the medium-term past sabong
“I think through each of those periods the team has picked up lessons, picked up what we need to do and grown from it sabong
I think there’s a lot of growth in this team sabong
Sometimes it’s not the straight-forward path you want it to be sabong
In the feelings and emotions of the game last night, I know that we’ll get stronger sabong
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