Doolin and Doherty want Ireland to silence home fans

MANAGER Paul Doolin and defender Matt Doherty are in agreement that a hostile home crowd in Berceni won’t derail Ireland’s prospects of beating Romania and booking a European Championship semi-final spot.

While both of Ireland’s pool games, the 2-1 win over Greece and Saturday’s loss to group leaders Czech Republic by the same scoreline, were played in front of a few hundred spectators, today’s encounter is expected to be watched by a capacity 2,600 crowd.

Results from the games so far mean that technically each of the four nations can clinch one of the two qualifying berths into Friday’s last-four.