Jim Crawford says Ireland’s hopes of making next year’s European Championships will rest on eliminating the “silly mistakes” that cost them any hope of securing automatic qualification.
Individual errors proved costly during Tuesday evening's 4-1 defeat to Italy in Ascoli, in a game Ireland needed to win to clinch top spot.
Under-21 boss Crawford said: “If you make silly mistakes and you concede goals in the manner that we did, you’ll get punished by teams like this.
