Dundalk forward and part-time architect David McMillan is in dreamland: only Legia Warszawa stand between his team and the UEFA Champions League group stage.
The 27-year-old’s tally of five goals has helped Stephen Kenny’s men go further in qualifying than any Irish club have previously managed in this competition. “Everything that has fallen to me I seem to have connected well with and it has hit the back of the net,” said McMillan. “Things have gone through keepers’ legs or hit the post and gone in; other weeks that doesn’t happen.”
Now McMillan is hoping to ride his luck into the group stage. Dundalk have already eliminated Iceland’s FH Hafnarfjördur and Belarusian champio…