Ireland book place in elite phase

Republic Of Ireland 3 Moldova 0
Wed, 19 Oct, 2005 - 01:00
Simon Lewis

The comfortable defeat of Moldova at St Colman’s Park made it two wins out of two in their qualifying tournament. With one game remaining, against Italy at Turners Cross tomorrow night, the Republic are guaranteed a top-two finish in their four-man group to ensure progress to the elite group tournament next spring.

McCaffrey had guided the U17s to a similar stage last month in the Ukraine and victory on home soil means his U19s are a step closer to reaching the finals in Poland next summer.

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