Ireland will finish their campaign away to Finland, their likely rivals for a play-off spot behind Sweden. Read MoreHad Pauw not agreed to this, Finland and Sweden were prepared to conspire that their two fixtures would take place after their games against Ireland. This might have happened had the bickering Group A rivals not finally come to an arrangement but Irish dissatisfaction clearly lingered. So we would have had to play Finland twice, that was the set-up, before they even started to play Sweden. Now the Finland away game is in between the two Sweden and Finland games.

Source: Irish Independent May 01, 2021 02:58 UTC