Trap wants to put ’em under pressure

ARGENTINA, Armenia, Andorra – it’s all the same to Giovanni Trapattoni.

Always anxious to field his most experienced side, regardless of the opposition, the Ireland manager surprised no-one yesterday when he announced that his starting 11 for tonight’s game against Andorra at the Aviva Stadium will be unchanged from the one which began against Armenia in Yerevan on Friday night.

Only briefly, it seems, did the thought of freshening things up for the visit of the Group B minnows cross his mind. “I did think about the possibility of changing a couple of players for this match but first I wanted to see if those who played against Armenia had fully recovered,” he revealed.