2017/18 Season Appearance Statistics for Irish Players

Irish Abroad players appearance statistics for the 2017/18 season

Wins
Promoted Matt Doherty started the most wins of the season, named in the starting XI 30 times that Wolves would go on to win. Interestingly, new recruit Callum Robinson started the most wins of any striker - 13 wins for the Preston forward.

Draws
Derby defender Richard Keogh started 15 games that ended all square, just behind goalkeeper Jack Bonham whose loan spell at Carlisle featured 17 draws.

Losses
St Johnstone's Joe Shaughnessy started 20 losses across the season, including two losses to FK Trakai of Lithuania.

Starts/Completed Games
Darren Randolph started a remarkable 50 games during 2017-18, only missing three games of Middlesbrough's season, and went on to completed 90 minutes in each one. Of the outfield players, nobody started or completed more games than Anthony O'Connor's games for Aberdeen.

Substitutions/Introductions
No player was substituted more than Millwall's Aiden O'Brien, the striker was removed from the action 19 times in 2017-18. Fellow striker Adam Rooney was introduced from the bench 21 times this season.

Stayed On Bench
Cardiff City's Brian Murphy was left on the bench in more games than any other player, finishing the season as an unused substitute in 47 games. Derby defender Alex Pearce was left on the bench in 35 games - the most of any outfield player

Goals
In what was a poor season for Irish goals, Conor Hourihane, Anthony Stokes and Adam Rooney all managed 11 goals, Sean Maguire scored 10 for Preston, and Eoin Doyle scored 17 on loan at Oldham.

Discipline
Carl McHugh was shown a yellow card in 15 of his 45 starts, four more than compatriot Daniel Devine - the only two players to reach double digit bookings in 2017-18

International Round Up

Monday, 28th May 2018

Friendly

France 2-0 Republic of Ireland

The three players to make their international debut in this game was most debutants in one game since four players (Daryl Horgan, Andy Boyle, John Egan, and Conor Hourihane) made their first senior appearance against Iceland in March 2017

Starting XI
Derrick Williams made his first appearance for Ireland
Kevin Long made his sixth appearance for Ireland
James McClean was booked for the tenth time in his international career in his 59th appearance for Ireland
Callum O'Dowda made his ninth appearance for Ireland, this was his first international appearance since Saturday, 11th November 2017
Alan Browne made his third appearance for Ireland
Shane Long start was his 40th start for Ireland, his first start since Friday, 6th October 2017 and his 80th appearance for Ireland
Jonathan Walters made his 52nd appearance for Ireland, this was the player's  first international appearance since Tuesday, 5th September 2017

Substitutes
Harry Arter's 12th appearance for Ireland as his first appearance since Tuesday, 14th November 2017, and he was booked for the first time at international level since the previous month
David Meyler made his 25th appearance for Ireland
Graham Burke made his first appearance for Ireland - Burke is the first player from the League of Ireland player to make a senior international appearance since Joe Gamble in 2007
Matt Doherty made his second appearance for Ireland
Shaun Williams made his first appearance for Ireland - the first player to make their international debut at 31 since David Forde against Northern Ireland in May 2011

Saturday, 2nd June 2018

Friendly

Republic of Ireland 2-1 United States of America

This was the first game where two players scored their first international goal since Jeff Hendrick and Daryl Murphy scored against Serbia in September 2017
Following the debuts of Darragh Lenihan and Enda Stevens in this game, Martin O'Neill has given debuts to the same amount of players as Steve Staunton did in his reign - 23
This game continued the record of both teams scoring in every fixture between the Republic of Ireland and the USA, neither team has failed to score in all nine games, and the first time the team had come from behind to win under O'Neill - the last time this happened was against Kazakhstan in October 2013

Starting XI
Colin Doyle made his fourth appearance for Ireland
Kevin Long made his seventh appearance for Ireland was also the defender's fifth start at international level
John O'Shea retired after making his 118th appearance for Ireland, this was the defender's first international appearance since Friday, 24 March 2017
Shane Duffy made his 20th appearance for Ireland - all of which have been starts
James McClean made his 60th appearance for Ireland
Declan Rice made his third appearance for Ireland
Callum O'Dowda made his fifth start for Ireland in his tenth appearance at senior international level
Jeff Hendrick made his 39th appearance for Ireland
Seamus Coleman made his 46th appearance for Ireland
Graham Burke scored his first international goal in his first start for Ireland - the first League of Ireland player to score at international level since Ray Treacy in 1978

Substitutes
Darragh Lenihan and Enda Stevens came off the bench to make their first appearances for Ireland
Harry Arter made his 13th appearance for Ireland
Alan Judge scored his first goal for Ireland in his fourth international appearance
Daryl Horgan made his fourth appearance for Ireland

Round Up for weekend of Saturday, 12th May 2018

Saturday, 12th May 2018

Championship Play Off

Middlesbrough 0-1 Aston Villa

Conor Hourihane was booked for the first time in a month

League 2 Play Off

Lincoln City 0-0 Exeter

Sean Long came off the bench for his first appearance since Sunday, 8th April

Coventry 1-1 Notts County

Michael Doyle made his 50th appearance of the season, remarkably the midfielder started each of these 50 games

Sunday, 13th May 2018

Premier League

Burnley 1-2 Bournemouth

Stephen Ward made his 100th start for Burnley
In the same game, Kevin Long made his 50th appearance for the Clarets
Ward, Long and Jeff Hendrick were named in the starting XI in consecutive games for the first time in a year

Liverpool 4-0 Brighton and Hove Albion

Shane Duffy made his 200th career start

Polish Ekstraklasa

Zagłębie Lubin 1-2 Jagiellonia Białystok

Cillian Sheridan was shown a yellow card for the first time since Thursday, 29th June 2017

Tuesday, 15th May 2018

Championship

Aston Villa 0-0 Middlesbrough

Darren Randolph made his 50th appearance for Middlesbrough

Wednesday, 16th May 2018

League 1

Rotherham 2-0 Scunthorpe

Anthony Forde was booked for the first time since February

Thursday, 17th May 2018

Scottish Championship Play-Offs

Livingston 2-1 Partick Thistle

Daniel Devine was booked for the first time since Saturday, 31st March

Sunday, 20 May 2018

Scottish Championship Play-Offs

Partick Thistle 0-1 Livingston

Adam Barton's first booking since December was his fifth booking of the season

Thursday, 31st May 2018

American MLS

New England Revolution 1-1 Atanta United

Chris McCann returned for his first start for Atlanta for a month