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Fingers crossed for Keane

AFP, Dublin
Football
Republic of Ireland coach Brian Kerr faces an agonising 48 hour wait before he discovers whether or not key striker Robbie Keane will be fit to play in crucial Euro 2004 qualifiers next month against Russia and Switzerland.
Tottenham star Keane, who has hit 16 international goals, was stretchered off with an ankle injury after falling heavily on his right ankle just before half-time in his country's 2-1 friendly win against Australia here on Tuesday.
To add to Kerr's problems, midfielder Matt Holland also had to be substituted.
Although both players are believed to have picked up ankle ligament damage the early indications are that they are not particularly serious problems.
"Robbie twisted his right ankle and fell just after having a shot," said Kerr.
"He is quite sore at the moment but we won't know how serious it is for a couple of days.
"Matt Holland has a slight twist of his ankle and felt sore and I took him off immediately. I would say they are both ligament problems."
Ireland fell behind to a Mark Viduka goal before Manchester United's John O'Shea and Birmingham's Clinton Morrison saved Kerr's unbeaten run as Ireland boss.
"We've used a lot of players and given them a match under their belts which they needed badly," said Kerr.
"The fact that we were behind and came back to win a game was good. It is the first time we've been behind recently so it shows we can up our game a bit when the pressure is on.
"Australia played very well as I expected. They seem to have a lot of desire and I think it is very hard on them that they lost the match overall."
Socceroos boss boss Frank Farina had to do without Liverpool's
influential Harry Kewell who suffered a recurrence of his longstanding Achilles injury in training.
"If he had had another day he would most probably have been okay but it's a big risk and we don't really want to take that with a player of his calibre," said Farina.
"When you see their goalkeeper getting man of the match it shows
you we are doing something right and I thought he made a couple of crucial saves.
"It is very disappointing to lose in the manner we did and we had three one on ones and hit the bar. But that's life. The manner in which we played was very good."