Cuper’s young Georgians won’t lack motivation

HE wasn’t making a big deal about it but Hector Cuper clearly felt that he should not have been sitting in the bowels of a German second division club’s stadium yesterday morning talking to the press.

“It was possible to hold this game in Tbilisi,” said the Georgian coach when quizzed on the FAI’s ultimately successful request to have the game switched to a neutral venue because of the conflict with Russia.

“It would not have been a problem but everyone behaves like it is more uncomfortable at the minute. I really don’t know what they were thinking about or what they wanted to achieve but it was absolutely possible to play this game in Tbilisi.”