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Tue 09 Sep 2010Trapattoni aims for slick performance
SOCCER/Rep Ireland v Andorra:FOR THOSE supporters already impatient to discover how this year-long qualification campaign is going to turn out, one of Uefa’s sponsors, Castrol, has obligingly hired what is doubtless a team of crack anoraks to put together a website where both individual matches and final group standing are predicted on the basis of previous performances.
There is, as they say, good news and bad news for the Irish. Giovanni Trapattoni’s men are given a 94 per cent chance of beating Andorra at the Aviva Stadium tonight but less than a one in three shot of making it to Poland and the Ukraine in two years’ time.
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