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Sat 05 May 2010Night of positives as Keane adds to tally
INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLY/Rep of Ireland 3 Algeria 0:MANAGERS TEND to want different things from these end-of-season friendlies and often the results can be a little misleading. By the end of last night’s surprisingly easy victory for the Republic of Ireland at the RDS, however, there was little need to hear the two men’s respective takes on the game.
One, after all, had just seen his side take another very small step towards developing a capacity to qualify for a major championship in a couple of years with their biggest win since 2007; the other had seen his urgent programme of experimentation ahead of next month’s World Cup unravel badly for the second time in succession.
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