James McClean was there — were you? As always, we’d love to hear your thoughts on this evening’s action. E-mail niall@thescore. ie, tweet @thescore_ie, post a message to our Facebook wall, or leave a comment below. You may need to refresh the page for YouTube videos and other elements to display correctly. FT: Republic of Ireland 1-1 Czech Republic Feb 29th 2012 7:22PM Evening all, and welcome to the Aviva Stadium for this evening’s Euro 2012 warm-up match.

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It’s the Republic of Ireland versus the Czech Republic and — as they say on Sky Sports — IT’S LIVE! The teams are out on the pitch below me warming up, and I’ve just been handed the team-sheet. Let’s do this. 7:27PM First things first. We’ll start with the one which you probably already know. Giovanni Trapattoni has made three changes to his Republic of Ireland team from the one which lined out for the second leg against Estonia here in November. Shane Long, Darren O’Dea and Aiden McGeady all start. Republic of Ireland: Given, St Ledger, O’Shea, O’Dea, Ward, McGeady, Whelan, Andrews, Duff, Long, Keane (c). 7:31PM And here’s how the Czechs will line out in Dublin tonight. Chelsea stopper Petr Cech and ex-Liverpool and Aston Villa striker Milan Baros are likely to be the most recognisable faces for fans of the Premier League. Czech Republic: Cech, Gerbreselassie, Kadlec, Limbersky, Sivok, Petrzela, Rezek, Stajner, Plasil, Baros, Jiracek.

He looks sharp, his touch is good, and he really seems to be settling into that deeper role off the main striker. Very encouraging. 8:09PM Another half-chance for Ireland. Duff whips in a free-kick from the right and O’Shea gets up to beat Kadlec, but his header flashes by the back post. 8:16PM Glenn Whelan rejoins the action after spending four or five minutes on the line getting treatment for what looks like a bust lip. Petrzela caught him with an elbow-forearm combo by accident, but it all looks to have been taken care of now and Ireland are back to full strength. 8:20PM 32 minutes in, and here comes the first of the Mexican waves. It’s not that bad, is it? 8:23PM The Czechs have grown into the game in the last 10 minutes or so, and Ireland are spending a lot of time dropping deep to defend their own area while the midfield trio of Plasil, Jiracek and Stajner work the ball back and forth in front of them.

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9:08PM Two more changes for the Czechs. Kolar and Lafata on for Stajner and the goalscorer, Baros. Trap is preparing his first change of the evening and it looks like it’s going to be… Stephen Hunt. Hold your fire, McClean fans. 9:10PM It’s actually a double substitution for Ireland. Whelan and Duff go off, Green and Hunt come on.

So far, so good for Ireland but I’m sure they’d like to be on the ball a bit more. 8:31PM A couple of minutes to go before half-time and it’s more of the same from both sides. Ireland are dropping so deep that both Gebreselassie and Limbersky are able to push on to within about 25 yards of goal without a care in the world.

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