Christian Eriksen stars as Denmark defeat Ireland 5-1, book World Cup spot

Christian Eriksen stars as Denmark defeat Ireland 5-1, book World Cup spot 

Christian Eriksen stars as Denmark defeat Ireland 5-1, book World Cup spot 

With three objectives from three shots, Christian Eriksen soared Denmark to Russia. Ireland had essentially no solution to Tottenham's playmaker as his show of Danish explosive wrecked their fantasy of achieving a first finals since 2002. 

Rather, Denmark will show up at a World Cup since 2010, when Eriksen, only 18, was the most youthful player at the competition. Next summer, as a 26-year-old, he will go as his country's undoubted charm and saint. His was a show that absolutely destroyed what had been a night tinged with pre-coordinate good faith and had begun so brilliantly for the hosts in Dublin. 

Protector Shane Duffy sent the Aviva Stadium into joys when scoring with a set-piece header after only six minutes. Robbie Brady's ball forward conveyed a rushed endeavor to volley clear from Nicolai Jorgensen and Duffy was close by to gesture over Kasper Schmeichel, who got his situating all off-base. 

Very quickly, the onus was on Denmark and they reacted. Ireland goalkeeper Darren Randolph influenced a fine, full-length to spare from a William Kvist drive in the seventeenth moment, and soon lined that up with a shrewd stop of a Pione Sisto depiction. 

Ireland were at that point making the rushed clearances that drained players make in the withering coals of matches and urgently required another objective to both consistent nerves and break the Danes' soul. Great possibilities that tumbled to Daryl Murphy and James McClean had supervisor Martin O'Neill jumping in fomentation when they were dragged wide and when Sisto got away down the left after a short corner, Ireland's guard lethally lost its shape. Chelsea's Andreas Christensen seized on the ball and however his shot was not really persuading, Cyrus Christie got himself in a tangle and couldn't stop himself avoiding the ball over the line. 

The Middlesbrough protector will surely have bad dreams over a cumbersome and appalling inability to clear the ball. It turned out to be the minute to set the tone for a night of distress. Coming in the 29th moment, it hushed a formerly stunning commotion level from the home fans and the Danes instantly recuperated their shocked certainty. 

Eriksen's first objective three minutes after the fact was a wondrous thing, hit with a class that gave Randolph no way. It was a chip that matched accuracy and power after a mistake by Stephen Ward gave him a spotless shot on objective. The hosts' mythical shake strong safeguarding had gone terribly delicate and in the wake of scoring simply only six objectives in 10 qualifying diversions, O'Neill's group were in unfamiliar domain. 

Their endeavors after half-time sold out a developing frenzy and after McClean, frenziedly haring around looking for an incomprehensible rebound, lost ownership, Eriksen nestled into second objective following 63 minutes. 

He would not stop there. Ward committed another error, slipping and giving Eriksen a short proximity cap trap chance he would not cannot. In the 90th moment, Nicklas Bendtner's strike added affront to the Ireland side's profoundly harmed pride 

2. Eriksen significantly better than the resistance 

Denmark's assignment appeared to be genuinely basic: endeavor to entice the Irish from their guarded shell and as mentor Age Hareide had conceded before the match, get Eriksen much additional time on the ball than he'd delighted in amid that turgid 0-0 attract Copenhagen. Duffy's initial objective hoped to have destroyed those well-laid plans, yet it in the end turned out that the Irish had scored awfully early. They were continually going to battle with the assignment of shielding for 84 minutes. 

O'Neill's favored way to triumph amid his rule has been to keep things tight, get preference late on and afterward guard it until the very end. Such was Ireland's course to triumph over Italy finally year's Euros and in their last gathering amusement in Wales a month ago. 

Eriksen, who likes to play additionally forward for Tottenham and has of late done as such for his nation, wound up dropping profound to discover space and discovered a lot of it. Lethally for Ireland, he would in the end up in positions where he could complete them off, blasting between drooping guarded lines to score those splendid objectives. 

It was a level of class that demand to elegance a World Cup finals and existed a long ways past Ireland's level. 

3. Ireland must scan for legends 

The thunder that took after the Irish national song of praise, "Amhrán na bhFiann," was genuinely stunning as the home fans longed for a fourth outing to the World Cup finals, where far-flung Russian urban communities might one be able to day be said in an indistinguishable breath from places like Genoa from 1990, New Jersey from 1994 and Yokohama in 2002. 

It was not to be. Ireland's present age isn't brimming with players like David O'Leary, Ray Houghton or Robbie Keane, the saints of those popular hours, and for a considerable lot of those upon whom O'Neill and right hand Roy Keane called, inability to make Russia looks the finish of the line. 

Previous commander John O'Shea, an unused sub on Tuesday, is 36 and set to resign after this crusade while Wes Hoolahan is 35. Murphy, a late engineer, has needed to hold up until turning 34 preceding turning into his nation's first-decision striker while Jon Walters, severely missed in these playoffs, is likewise 34. 

The issue for O'Neill and whomever may tail him as director is that there gives off an impression of being little else getting through from the young positions. Just Callum O'Dowda, dropped for David Meyler before the second leg, is under 25. That ability hole may prompt Ireland's broadened nonappearance from the World Cup finals.