Forde turns focus to Gelsenkirchen after quiet day at the office at Aviva

Unions may not be the powerful lobby group they once were, but the unwritten rules demanding solidarity among the goalkeeping fraternity remain.

David Forde spent Saturday evening trapping the odd back pass, making the odd shouted observation and having to deal with only a minor flurry of activity around his area of operations late in the second half.

His opposite number, Jordan Perez, had a less convivial evening. Ireland’s custodian, though he can’t have had an experience quite like that before, had more than a little sympathy for the man who let in seven.