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republic of ireland Captain Nathan Collins has insisted he hates defeat and is motivated by the hurt it has caused.
Brentford defender Collins and his international teammates have come in for criticism recently following a difficult start to their World Cup qualifying campaign, with some pundits saying they have become accustomed to losing.
Although it is alleged that the 24-year-old former to fuel, burnley And who will the Wolves players line up against? armenia In a do-or-die game at the Aviva Stadium on Tuesday night – strongly rejects.
Collins said: “To be honest, I hate losing. I really hate it. I’ve lost a lot in my career. Just like that.”
“I have played for some teams that are not top of the league and you lose games and you have to pick yourself back up.
“You have to get back on the horse and go again with the next game, the next game. You can lose, you can lose. It takes a lot out of you, but it’s that fire inside of me where I hate to lose.
“I always want to change it up. I always want to change it up and just be a winner, be a winning team, win games, win against bigger teams, win against smaller teams.
“Always carry the same standard of wanting to win, wanting to score goals, wanting to keep clean sheets, wanting to stop your best players.
“That’s what it’s about. It’s the will to get back up and move forward again. When you lose, it hurts.”
“You give yourself 24 hours, you look at the game, you watch, you watch your clips again, but you get on with it and move on because there are so many games.”
Ireland will have to do the same as they prepare for their clash with the Armenians three days after suffering a last-gasp defeat in Portugal.
They held on for 91 minutes in Lisbon before Ruben Neves snatched a precious point from their clutches and a solitary win against Yeghishe Melikyan’s men will keep their Group F hopes alive.
It was something they couldn’t manage yerevan Last month, when they lost 2–1 to a team ranked 42 places below them by FIFA, Collins admitted he still couldn’t describe a defeat.
Asked if he had been able to understand anything about that game since then, he replied: “No, not really. It’s very strange.”
“The only thing I say at the end of the day is just football. Football is such a crazy game. Anything can happen. Sometimes there’s no clear explanation, but it’s hard to accept.”