Six issues Stephen Kenny must solve ahead of Euro playoff in Slovakia

Whatever way you cut it, Ireland need a whole lot to go right in the next month if hopes of any home involvement at the Euro 2020 games in Dublin next summer are to be realised

Republic of Ireland manager Stephen Kenny. Picture: INPHO/Ryan Byrne

Stephen Kenny had to be all things to all football fans this last week. Try and win two Nations League games straight up, build towards next month’s playoff against Slovakia and, by the by, rewrite the DNA of the men’s senior team.

It made for a list of far from complimentary tasks.