Northern Ireland, by contrast, were a shadow of the side that qualified unexpectedly as winners of their group. Ukraine have strong attacking options of their own, through pacy wingers Andriy Yarmolenko and Yevhen Konoplyanka. Both sides are promising a more attacking approach than in their opening games, where the Northern Irish went down 1-0 to Poland and Ukraine were dispatched 2-0 by Germany. LYON, France, Northern Ireland need to come out of their shell in Thursday's Euro 2016 Group C clash against Ukraine if their first major tournament appearance for 30 years is not to end in an anti-climax. At the same time, we need to be accurate, especially at the back," assistant coach Andriy Shevchenko told the Football TV channel.

Source: Standard Digital June 15, 2016 08:58 UTC