For five minutes, it looked like Michael O’Neill’s team would go one better than George Best and company here in 1976. Five minutes after Josh Magennis’s opening goal, late in the second half, Holland unleashed hell on their courageous visitors. Memphis Depay toe-poked through Jonny Evans’s legs and into the Northern Ireland net to equalise. Three minutes later, Depay struck again. Had Northern Ireland hung on to that lead, they would have surpassed…

Source: The Times October 10, 2019 23:03 UTC