Michael O’Neill believes Northern Ireland are moving in the right direction despite missing out on automatic qualification for Euro 2020. That Northern Ireland could not match their achievement of reaching Euro 2016 out of a group that included the Dutch and Germans is no surprise, and O’Neill sees no failure in that. 📸 Michael O’Neill and Craig Cathcart face the media in Frankfurt. #GAWA pic.twitter.com/jhMLcT5xrc — Northern Ireland (@NorthernIreland) November 18, 2019“Of course we were in a position to take more points, but people have to be realistic with the level of the opposition that we’re playing against,” he said. “How those players have adapted to that is testament to the likes of Craig (Cathcart), Jonny (Evans) and (Steven Davis).

Source: Express November 18, 2019 19:07 UTC