Bazunu insists Kenny still has backing of Ireland players
His future as men’s national team manager continues to be in serious doubt, but Gavin Bazunu has insisted that the Republic of Ireland players are still offering their full backing to Stephen Kenny.
Following a 2-0 defeat to Greece at the Aviva Stadium last Friday – a result that ended their slim hopes of securing automatic qualification to next year’s finals in Germany – Ireland recorded a comfortable 4-0 victory against Gibraltar in their penultimate game in Group B of the UEFA Euro 2024 qualifiers on Monday in Faro.
Next month will see the Republic finishing out their campaign (barring an increasingly unlikely scenario that would see them making it into a play-off) with a difficult fixture away to Netherlands, before facing New Zealand in an international friendly at the Aviva Stadium on November 21.
There is set to be a review into Kenny’s tenure at this point and while the general consensus is that the Dubliner’s reign at the international helm will soon come to an end, Bazunu and his Irish colleagues remain supportive of the current set-up.
“For us, I think, as a group we’re all united in that we’re very happy in the people we have around us. We’ve just got to find it within ourselves to continue to up our performances and get more results,” the Republic of Ireland goalkeeper remarked.
“Obviously it was a good result for us last night [Monday]. It was important that we went out and made sure that we did a professional job, and we performed really well. It was disappointing from the first game, but we showed really good quality last night to get the result.”
Before flying back to his current club base in Southampton, Gavin Bazunu was at FAI HQ yesterday - alongside FAI Director of Football Marc Canham and
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