In Britain, Northern Ireland’s defeat to Finland was already perceived as a hard blow to the chances of reaching the EC final tournament.
Football In their second match of the EC qualifiers, Finland beat Northern Ireland 1–0 on Sunday evening by Benjamin Källman on the finish line.
From the British media, among others The Guardian criticized Northern Ireland’s performance as flat.
The Guardian compared the match to last Thursday’s match against San Marino, which Northern Ireland won.
“This was a more serious night against stronger opposition, and the result gave a significant setback to the hopes of reaching the European Championships at an early stage of the qualification,” writes The Guardian.
In The Guardian’s opinion, Northern Ireland gave too much space to Finland, who scored a goal right from their first real goal slot.
According to The Guardian, the crowd got excited to cheer, especially after Northern Ireland’s goal was disallowed due to a handball.
“However, the team’s answer was missing,” the paper writes.
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the BBC in match monitoring former Northern Ireland defender John O’Neill writes that Northern Ireland lack a quality striker.
“We are shouting [Teemu] Buck after a player like He knows how to lead the offensive line and score goals. We don’t have that kind of quality in the team,” says O’Neill.
“There are good players coming, but is this qualification too soon?”
Northern Ireland head coach Michael O’Neill stated after the match that the result was bad, but there were also positives in the game. He considered Finland’s goal as one that should not have been conceded.
“It was a messy finish.”
In O’Neill’s opinion, Northern Ireland was denied a goal for very little reasons.
In the match story BBC notes that the 17,900 spectators gave good support to the home team, but “the performances were fragmented at times, and the attack relied on a teenager (19 years old) Conor Bradley’s to running power”.
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