Job done, three more points, but if Ireland are to ultimately win promotion back to League A they will need to find an extra gear in the final third.
And they will have to cut out the mistakes that allowed Greece to somehow claw their way back into the game.
An early Amber Barrett penalty and Anna Patten’s second-half header were enough to wrap up back-to-back wins, with 5,879 - the lowest crowd since the 5-1 win against Albania in October 2023 - but only just.
Was the decision to give Ireland their ninth minute penalty the correct one? No. The challenge that sent Leanne Kiernan sprawling inside the box was made on the other side of the white line.
But that early break didn’t have the same galvanising effect as Marissa Sheva’s strike early in the second-half in Crete four days earlier.
Nor did Patten’s 50th minute header. Instead, the Girls in Green were left clinging on as Greece struck back in the 72nd minute through Veatriki Sarri, and then pushed for an equaliser.
Presuming they win in Turkey on May 30, it’ll be gung-ho against Slovenia in Cork on June 3, thanks to Slovenia’s win away to the Turks earlier yesterday.
Ireland will need to win by five in Pairc Ui Chaoimh to emerge on top of their head-to-head battle with Slovenia and clinch automatic promotion back to League A.
On the evidence of Tuesday night, that will be a tad ambitious.
They had the worst possible start off the pitch. An “administrative error” meant Heather Payne, fully recovered from the injury that kept her out of Friday’s 4-0 win in Crete, could not take her place on the bench.
But on the pitch they couldn’t have asked for a better opening, with German referee Franziska Wildfeuer erroneously awarding a penalty.
When Leanne Kiernan’s mazy run in from the right was crudely halted by Athanasia Moraitou, Wildfeuer’s momentary hesitation suggested she was unsure whether contact was initiated inside or outside the box.
Replays suggested the latter, but without VAR there was no changing her mind once she pointed to the spot.
The visitors didn’t create any additional uncertainty. If there were any protests at the decision, they were muted.
At first Lucy Quinn stood over the 12-yard marker, but ultimately it was Barrett who stepped forward, after some on-field treatment for Liverpool forward Kiernan.
Fresh from scoring her eighth senior Ireland goal last Friday, Barrett confidently drilled the ball past goalkeeper Zoi Nasi, who guessed correctly, but was beaten by the pace of the strike.
While comfortably on top, the chances were not falling for Ireland with the frequency that was expected in the wake of the second-half performance in Crete.
Things did pick up around the half-hour mark, but it wasn’t until the 43rd minute that visiting goalkeeper Zoi Nasi made a save.
Prior to that, Patton and Aoife Mannion both headed wide - from a Megan Campbell long throw and corner respectively.
Mannion’s effort came after a spot of head tennis inside the area, involving Barrett and Patten.
Moments later Kiernan, spotting Nasi off her line, attempted to lob the goalkeeper but failed to direct the ball on target from 20 yards.
Tyler Toland was also off-target with a daisy-cutter from 25 yards, but otherwise the Blackburn midfielder had a productive night, breaking up Greek plays and generally being tidy on the ball.
At the other end, the most worrying moment for Courtney Brosnan came when a Jessie Stapleton back-pass came up slightly short, forcing the goalkeeper to clear under pressure.
Five minutes into the second-half and Ireland doubled their lead.
Campbell delivered the corner from the right and Patten, the tallest Irish player on the pitch, guided her glancing header inside the far post.
That should have been the catalyst for more, but again Ireland struggled to create openings.
It took Greece 58 minutes to register a shot on target, a Sarri shot from 20 yards that was comfortably dealt with by Brosnan.
But when the visiting midfielder’s low 20-yard shot beat the Everton goalkeeper and squeezed inside the right-hand post with 18 minutes to play, it was panic stations.
Minutes later, Stapleton’s pass into midfield was intercepted by Sarri, who passed quickly to Ioanna Papatheodorou. She shot first-time on the spin, but the ball whistled wide of the target.
Papatheodorou then dribbled into the right-hand-side of the area, shifted the ball onto her left and then her right, creating space to the side of Stapleton to let fly. Brosnan was comfortably behind the shot.
It was a nervier finish than was necessary and better will be needed in both games of the final window of this campaign if the goal of automatic promotion is to be achieved.
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