Republic of Ireland 'sick' of losing - Collins

Republic of Ireland defender Nathan Collins says that they are "sick" of losing aft their 2-0 conclusion by Greece successful nan Uefa Nations League.

Despite a affirmative first half, nan Republic fell to a fourth consecutive competitory conclusion at nan Aviva Stadium aft second-half goals from Fotis Ioannidis and Christos Tzolis.

And Collins, who was skipper connected nan night, admitted assurance is debased aft different disappointing loss.

"There is simply a batch of vexation and group upset, and we cognize that location are excessively galore times we person travel successful present losing, losing astatine times erstwhile we shouldn't beryllium losing and we're sick of it," he told RTE aft nan game.

"We're looking astatine each different and we request to measurement it up. We've changed nan manager, we person changed things and we played our champion location successful a agelong clip and we still mislaid truthful we request to alteration more."

Collins expressed his disappointment astatine nan mode of nan goals nan Republic conceded, peculiarly nan first goal.

Ioannidis' opener came 5 minutes aft nan restart arsenic he coiled location from extracurricular nan area aft being afforded excessively overmuch clip and space.

The 2nd from Tzolis pinch 5 minutes remaining came from a swift counter-attack and a assured finish.

"I deliberation [for nan first goal] we mislaid our style a small bit, it was a bully finish, but I deliberation location were things we could person changed," Collins explained.

"I thought we came retired crisp successful nan 2nd half and were connected top, but I deliberation that extremity took a batch retired of america unfortunately.

"When we're connected apical and astatine location we request to find an equaliser and we request to pursuit it, counter-attacks hap but nan first extremity was really frustrating."

Brentford centre-half Collins acknowledged that nan Republic played overmuch amended than they did successful their opening group crippled against England wherever they mislaid 2-0, particuarly successful nan first half.

He did concede, however, that they request to create a objective separator to get thing retired of their adjacent 2 games, an distant double-header against Finland and Greece successful October.

"I deliberation first half we were very dominant, and they couldn't get done us," he continued.

"We were bully connected nan shot and we created loads of chances, but we request to score.

"We request to put ourselves up and springiness ourselves thing to conflict for successful nan game."