#WEURO2022 Qualifying Play Offs: Northern Ireland win first leg
#WEURO2022 Qualifying Play Offs: Northern Ireland win first leg Northern Ireland’s Simone Magill scored the winning goal. (PA Images)
Northern Ireland pulled off a 2-1 win away to Ukraine on Friday 9 April in the UEFA Women’s Championship Qualifying Play-Off 1st Leg.
Rachel Furness gave the Irish a great start with an early away goal but soon had to be substituted due to a leg injury.
The hosts got back on level terms with a header by Daryna Apanaschenko but Kenny Shiels side restored their lead before the hour mark, Simone Magill latching onto the ball and getting beyond her marker to fire home.
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Kenny Shiels: squad will ‘give everything’
Kenny Shiels has revealed there is a real hunger to succeed within his squad ahead of this month’s Women’s Euro 2022 play-off matches against Ukraine.
The Northern Ireland senior women’s team manager says his players want to be competing at the Women’s Euros in England next summer and promised he will do all he can to ensure they are ready for the two play-off games.
Shiels has chosen a 23-strong squad for the matches in Ukraine on Friday 9 April and Belfast on Tuesday 13 April.
It’s the first time the Northern Ireland senior women’s team have reached the play-offs for a major tournament and the manager believes his players are “up for the fight”.
Kenny Shiels says senior women’s squad will ‘give everything they have’ against Ukraine
Kenny Shiels has revealed there is a real hunger to succeed within his squad ahead of this month’s Women’s Euro 2022 play-off matches against Ukraine.
The Northern Ireland senior women’s team manager says his players want to be competing at the Women’s Euros in England next summer and promised he will do all he can to ensure they are ready for the two play-off games.
Shiels has chosen a 23-strong squad for the matches in Ukraine on Friday 9 April and Belfast on Tuesday 13 April.