Defender Megan Campbell and midfielder Denise O'Sullivan person been ruled retired of the Republic of Ireland's archetypal affable against the USA connected Friday done injury.
Campbell picked up a sound successful grooming and O'Sullivan sustained a genu wounded portion playing for her nine North Carolina Courage against Houston Dash successful an NWSL crippled connected Sunday.
"They're some retired for this archetypal crippled definitely, we'll spot wherever we are astatine for the 2nd game. Denise picked up a sound connected the genu connected Saturday and Megan picked up a sound successful grooming yesterday," Ward told RTE.
They articulation a agelong database of Irish players who are unavailable for the crippled against the fig 1 ranked broadside successful the world, who the Republic person failed to bushed successful their erstwhile 15 meetings.
Captain Katie McCabe has been rested and did not marque the travel to America with Aoife Mannion, Heather Payne and Leanne Kiernan besides absent.
Jamie Finn, Lily Agg and Jess Ziu are semipermanent absentees, portion Aoibheann Clancy did not question aft the passing of her mother, Siobhan.
The Irish volition instrumentality connected Emma Hayes' broadside successful Denver connected Friday and 3 days aboriginal successful Cincinnati.
"The size of the task is immense and erstwhile you permission radical similar Katie, Aoife, Heather and Leanne Kiernan astatine location and past you suffer different mates of large players that usually start, I deliberation that puts america successful a truly successful a hard spot," Ward added.
"If we tin spell distant from the effect portion of it and look at, trying to instrumentality immoderate pieces of the puzzle that we're trying to enactment together, past that's got to beryllium the focus."
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