I do hope I’m wrong.
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Poland now face Ireland in a final showdown in Warsaw needing a win to claim one of the two automatic qualification spots.
“There’s no hiding from the fact”.
“Ireland have done brilliantly to get a result against Germany and all credit to them but we had to do our job and we were just unlucky with the goal at the end”.
And asked if he felt the manager should continue at the helm, he said: “Of course I do, he brought me back into the fold, I’ve got a lot to thank him for so hopefully he carries on. A hard game awaits us but we are ready for it”.
“It was a victory snatched from us last night”.
“But over the year, there have been a couple of offside goals and a couple of horrendous deflections. But that Georgia game is where the damage was done, in terms of the group”.
He said: “Gordon Strachan is a very good manager”. No surprisingly they were postage given that he owes his worldwide career to the man. “He is developing all the time and I don’t think there is anyone who can stop him”.
“We’re doing it week in, week out in the Premier League at the minute and this will be no different”.
“I can’t remember us getting anything lucky”.
“We will be fired up on Sunday because this is our last qualifier and we’ll always go out and give 100 per cent in any match”.
Unfortunately for Scotland, he needed to take a few more. Thankfully there will be three, maybe all four, of our near neighbours to support instead. We must keep a cool head, be calm and above all not be afraid. I wanted to be there, everyone wanted to be there.
O’Shea continued: “We’ll have to show we can sit in at stages and cause them problems on the counter attack like we did against Germany, that’ll be key for us”.
Those to take a half-empty view will point towards the imperious form of Robert Lewandowski and wonder whether two goalkeepers would be able to shut him out.
“You’re not going to rush out and try to win it in the first five or ten minutes”.
“It gave us the belief that the play-off would be ours but beating Germany was very special and it’ll live long in the memory”.
“It’s hard to find the words to describe how much it hurts”.
However, Fletcher, who was “happy” with his finish, said: “We are going in the right direction, so I don’t see why there should be any change”.
“Pointless is probably the game on Sunday”. That’s to be expected.
IF it had all gone to plan, this should have been the night that Scotland celebrated and the flights to France were booked.
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“But in time we’ll need to focus on the progress made during the campaign”.
