AN INJURY scare to captain Katie McCabe and a humbling defeat, the analysis of which should pass plenty of hours in the air today, didn’t provide Vera Pauw’s side with the send-off they wanted.
Tallaght Stadium’s turnstiles clicked a record 7,632 times for a senior women’s international and they all cheered their World Cup bound stars loudly in the end.
But despite a strong first-half performance, which ended with a pair of injury-time sucker punches, there wasn’t a whole lot to get worked up about.
