Liam Brady: This is worst group of Ireland players I've seen in my lifetime

Liam Brady said Stephen Kenny is working with the worst group of Republic of Ireland players he's seen in his lifetime in the wake of Friday night's Euro 2024 qualifier defeat to Greece.

Ireland slumped to a 2-1 loss in Athens, the final result flattering the visitors who were indebted to Gavin Bazunu for making a string of good saves.

Kenny's men were lacklustre, poor in possession and ragged out of it as the Greeks gleefully outplayed them.

It leaves hopes of qualification for the Euros play-offs hanging by a thread with just two games of the qualification campaign gone, and Brady believes the problems go beyond the manager.

"I know that we haven't got the players, this is the worst group of players that any manager has had in my lifetime," the RTÉ Soccer analyst said during his post-match analysis.

"You go through all the managers - Martin O'Neill, Mick McCarthy, Steve Staunton, Jack Charlton.

"They all had better players than Stephen's got, but somehow you've got to mould them into a team that gets you a result here and there. We haven't done that.

"They passed the ball sideways, they passed the ball backwards, whereas the Greeks were totally different.

"The Greece team were playing through us. They were getting people turned. They knew what they were doing. There was a positivity about their play."

Kenny made no excuses in his own assessment afterwards. The Dubliner must now lift his side for Monday's game against Gibraltar at the Aviva Stadium.

"We just let ourselves down with the defending for the two goals. That was the disappointing aspect," he said.

"In the first half, Greece were better than us. They had more control of the game, they hurt us with the big switches from right to left and left to right, those 40-50 yard