Northern Ireland face Euro 2024 finalists Romania in a friendly on Friday night - 7.45pm kick-off
Michael O'Neill has challenged his current crop of Northern Ireland players to find their own identity. O'Neill's squad that qualified for the 2016 European Championships had their own style and identity. And while not saying this squad has to follow the same template the Northern Ireland boss highlighted traits he wants to see. He said: “I think any team that does well requires an identity. The players have to buy into that as well and trust the work that we do.
“If you look at Conor Bradley playing for Liverpool that’s going to be different to the style of play Eoin Toal plays at Bolton so it is about bringing all of that into the mix and creating our own identity that works for us. “Any good Northern Ireland team is good when the opposition has the ball and that’s what we have to work really hard on. We demonstrated that in the game against Denmark and the next phase of the development of the team is to always be that but also to be as productive as we can be as well…
“We will ask players to step up in level so we are asking players who play in League One in England to step up against players playing at higher levels across Europe. The most important thing is that our players show they can deal with that. I’ve every confidence they will.”
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