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Trap invokes Stade de France spirit

Mar 1st, 2010, 8:13 pm

Giovanni Trapattoni has called on his Ireland players to remember their World Cup play-off defeat to France when they take on Brazil at the Emirates Stadium tomorrow. The Italian coach has already turned his attentions towards the 2012 European Championships qualifying campaign – and there can be no better preparation than a meeting with the South American giants. His plans have been disrupted somewhat by the late withdrawals because of injury of experienced pair Robbie Keane and Richard Dunne. Nevertheless, the Republic coach expects his men to deliver. “Until this morning, I had hoped to put out all of the players who were in the last game against France, but at the last minute we are now missing Robbie Keane and Richard Dunne,” said Trapattoni. “However, I have had this experience before, where my team had to play without the famous senior men and we made a good game. We will start with the experienced players, because to put all the youngsters in against a team like this would be dangerous. It will be important for us to play with the same mentality and performance as we did against France and Italy. But we will need more attention, because Brazil are a great team – every player can score a goal, they have so many creative and technical players. We will prepare with 100 per cent attention and be compact, because we must not only press them, we can also not let such great players like Kaka have too much space. We need to be compact, every player must help his team-mate, be organised. If we play with the order like we did against Italy and France, then we can do it against Brazil.”

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