After playing Poland, Northern Ireland face Ukraine in Lyon four days later before finishing against world champions Germany on June 21 in Paris. "We know Poland are full of good attacking forwards, so we must take our chances and hope they don't." Northern Ireland are on the longest unbeaten run of all 24 teams heading into Euro 2016, but they need hot-shot Robert Lewandowski to have a bad day in Sunday's opener against Poland. Centre-backs Gareth McAuley and Jonny Evans, both of English Premier League outfit West Bromwich Albion, will be tasked with keeping Lewandowski quiet. They open their Group C campaign at the European Championship against Poland in Nice on Sunday with the aim of keeping that run going.

Source: Standard Digital June 09, 2016 15:00 UTC