'We're going to get better': Stephen Kenny unfazed by another blank amid adversity

Ireland lost a Euro 2020 playoff in devastating fashion to Slovakia on Thursday evening. They arrived back on Friday morning when the rest of the nation wasn't even thinking about stirring

Ireland’s Shane Long and Jeff Hendrick react to a missed chance. Picture: INPHO/James Crombie

The record books will show another blank where Ireland's goalscorers should be, the lack of a single win across Stephen Kenny's first four games in charge and seven Nations League ties since the competition's inception without one victory for the Republic of Ireland.

You could look at it like that. Or you could put things in their true context.