Georgia 1-1 Ireland.
That was, without a shadow of a doubt, one of the worst Ireland performances in recent memory.
Georgia are ranked 112th in the FIFA World rankings with Ireland 29th place.
But it was roles reversed in Tblisi, the home side had three-quarters of the possession.
That’s Guardiola at Barcelona territory.
Whether you agree with Eamon Dunphy or not most of the time, it is impossible to argue with how he analysed the Irish game on Saturday night.
Spoiler alert: He thinks they were dreadful.
“We were very lucky to get a point, it’s a shocking performance. We’ve let Wales back into the group, Wales play Austria tonight in Cardiff and they’ll be so happy to see our result. They’re bang back in it now and we have to go there for our last game in October,” Dunphy told Darragh Moloney.
“I think Ronnie said it all, it’s the worst performance he’s seen from an Irish team in many years.
“It was gut wrenching to watch that and a couple of things became clear, we shouldn’t be playing without Wes Hoolahan when he’s fit. We really don’t need Glenn Whelan shuffling around doing nothing, we can’t afford that in front of the back four. But most importantly of all it’s the mindset and the culture set by the coaching team.
“You’ve got to pass the ball, you’ve got to defend in the right areas of the pitch, you can’t be 1-0 up and sitting back on the edge of your own penalty area and leaving acres of space to allow a pretty ordinary team to come at you time after time after time.
“We talked about leadership before the match but leadership is not just making tackles and pointing here and shouting at people, leadership is actually getting on the ball or looking for the ball whenever there’s a man on the ball, supporting whoever’s on the ball. All of that was missing.
“It has been often the case that we just scrape through by character but we played in Vienna in the last away game and we won 1-0. David Meyler played, sitting on the bench tonight he played really well. Whelan came off after 25 minutes Meyler came on, he and Wes ran the game and McClean scored the goal.
“McClean was awesome tonight but to see a young lad doing all of that for nothing was sad also. It’s a terrible day for Irish soccer, that’s not the way to play football, it doesn’t work and you make yourself look very, very foolish. It was shocking,” Dunphy concluded.
"Gut-wrenching" – Eamon Dunphy dispirited by that 90 minutes in Tbilisi #RTESoccer #GEOIRL #COYBIG pic.twitter.com/KfDCZqdjUW
— RTÉ Soccer (@RTEsoccer) September 2, 2017
