O'Sullivan-orchestrated Ireland breeze past Hungary

A superb Denise O'Sullivan performance orchestrated another convincing Republic of Ireland victory in the UEFA Nations League as Eileen Gleeson's team breezed to a 4-0 win against Hungary in Budapest.

Having started life after Vera Pauw with a 3-0 victory over Northern Ireland at the Aviva Stadium last Saturday, the Girls in Green followed it up with a confident display.

Goals from the foot-perfect Caitlin Hayes, Katie McCabe, Kyra Carusa and O'Sullivan put a hard-working but limited Hungary to the sword.

With six points on the board, seven goals scored and none conceded, they next face the group's lowest seeded side, Albania, in an October double-header.

So far so good then in this new Irish dawn.

Gleeson made just one change to the team that beat the North 3-0, as Lily Agg came in for Megan Connolly in midfield.

She sat as one of two deeper-lying pivots alongside Tyler Toland, whch freed up O'Sullivan to pull the strings behind Lucy Quinn and Carusa, who both netted against the North.

Having had a huge, partisan crown behind them at the Aviva, Ireland were greeted by more sterile surrounds in the sparsely attended Hidegkuti Nandor Stadium.

It made for a downbeat opening, with the players' cries echoing around the ground as police sirens wailed through the surrounding streets.

The typically tireless Payne shook her team into life with two pieces of good attacking play. First, the wing-back flashed in a wicked cross that just evaded Lucy Quinn; then an angled cross/shot thumped off the top of the crossbar.

Hungary, similar to Norhtern Ireland, were dogged and rigid as they sat back and tried to frustrate the visitors, but once Ireland started to find their groove, gaps peeled open.

Laura Kovacs unceremoniously yanked back McCabe as