Kenny focus on Armenia as Scots loss sparks old debate

Stephen Kenny's suitability as the manager of Ireland was once again a topic of discussion ahead of the final UEFA Nations League game against Armenia at the Aviva Stadium.

Ireland come into the game off the back of a defeat to Scotland at Hampden Park on Saturday night, and as a result find themselves embroiled in a relegation battle, of sorts, as the group comes to a conclusion.

Ireland sit on a paltry total of four points from five games, while Armenia take three points into tonight’s encounter, and should the visitors make it back-to-back victories against the Republic, they would maintain their status in League B of the competition, sending Kenny’s side down to the third tier.

An unthinkable scenario for this emerging Ireland team, and based on overall form throughout the group, an unlikely one, considering the performances that Kenny’s squad have shown over their past three games, combined with Armenia’s awful accumulation throughout their other four games, which they lost home and away to Ukraine and Scotland.

Yet still the conversation continues in relation to Kenny’s position at national team manager as the team have now failed to feature at the business end of three consecutive campaigns.

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The initial Nations League campaign will be, not so fondly, remembered for the Covid chaos that prevented the manager from gaining any sort of settled side, and it showed in the results with Ireland just avoiding relegation, failing to win a game from six played, while scoring