Tomorrow night, Ireland might be playing a Moldovan side who are propping up the Group D table, without a point or even a goal to their name so far, writes Liam Mackey of the Irish Examiner in Chisinau.

In the immediate aftermath of a 1-0 win over Georgia which could so every easily have been a draw or worse for Ireland, Martin O’Neill described his team’s first-half performance as “very ordinary.”