Northern Ireland boss Tanya Oxtoby hails match-winner Lauren Wade as a 'gem' after they overcome Croatia in their Euro 2025 play-off second leg at Windsor Park.
Northern Ireland boss Tanya Oxtoby hailed match-winner Lauren Wade as a "gem" after they overcame Croatia in their Euro 2025 play-off second leg at Windsor Park.
And Oxtoby was pleased with Wade's display and her overall contribution throughout the qualification campaign. "When you look at the highlight reels across the campaign, she pops up in everything good we do so that goal was a credit to her."Highlights: Northern Ireland v Croatia "We dropped her a bit deeper to give us something from the deeper spaces with the view that she was going to go forward at the end of the game when they were tiring a bit to give us that bit of quality and balance," she explained.The Australian, who admitted that Northern Ireland had practised penalties yesterday and were "prepared" for a shootout, conceded that her overriding feeling when the goal went in was relief.
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