Cuper confident Georgia can spring a surprise

GEORGIA landed in Dublin earlier this week minus four players through injury and with half their squad coming out of cold storage due to the winter football hiatus in parts of eastern Europe.

Not ideal then, but still a marked improvement considering their perilous state when these sides met last September.

Back then the Georgians were playing their ‘home’ tie in Germany as a result of the recent war with Russia in South Ossetia.