Head Coach Colin O’Brien saw his Ireland U17 side commenced their UEFA Elite Stage campaign on Wednesday afternoon when they defeated FYR Macedonia by three goals to nil in their opening Group Three encounter at the Stadion Chrobrego, Glogow in Poland, while at the same time, the hosts played out a two all draw with Georgia. Ireland took the lead on fifty seven minutes through a penalty converted by Adam Idah and consolidated their position with further strikes on sixty two and sixty nine minutes from Sean Brennan and Tyriek Wright. Ireland next face Georgia at 4.30pm on Saturday afternoon at the same venue in Glogow.
Republic of Ireland: Kian Clarke; Max Murphy, Nathan Collins (capt), Kameron Ledwidge, Luca Connell; Callum Thompson (Troy Parrott 52 (Jordan McEneff 74)), Barry Coffey (Adam O’Reilly 70), Jason Knight, Tyreik Wright; Adam Idah, Sean Brennan
Macedonia: Matej Andov; Bozhidar Mitrevski, Vane Tasevski, Suad Jonuzi (Kristijan Trpchevski 73), Georgije Jankulov; Dimitar Todorovski (Arbi Vosha 60), Emil Skoko; Kire Trpchevski (capt), Jeton Dauti, Ersan Hajdari; Suhejlj Muharem (Kushtrim Tairi 41)
Referee: Boris Marhefka (SVK)