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He [Baraclough] said go and do what you usually do and don't have any fear of what you are going into. He gave me loads of confidence to go and do what I can do. I really enjoyed it and I am thankful to Ian for giving me the chance. I treated it like any other game, whether it is a friendly or a competitive game. I gave away the ball and I wanted to win it back, so I put in that tackle and I got a massive cheer from all the crowd, that was an unreal moment.

Conor Bradley, Northern Ireland

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They are a very good team, they just drew with the European champions. It was disappointing in the end but good thing we have them in the next game so we can put it right. We all fed off the atmosphere that the crowd gave us - it was electric.

Shayne Lavery, Northern Ireland striker

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We have to go to Geneva with no fear, and then we go to Bulgaria. It's a big month, of course it is, but our away form has been decent and I know teams won't want to see the likes of Shayne Lavery and the pace in our wide areas - there's an excitement there.

Ian Baraclough, Northern Ireland manager

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With some certain decision making at the right time we could have come away with three points. You can lose a game like that, of course you can, but I wanted to be positive. Yes, we got pushed back and yes, we had spells where we didn't have the ball, but our concentration was very good. When we won the ball we tried to attack with pace and that is a real feature of this group at the moment. We have pace in this team and some old heads who are looking after them. It looks a good squad.

Ian Baraclough, Northern Ireland manager

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We were very solid. I said after the Lithuania game they came of age, tonight everyone became men. They were resolute, they don't want to be beaten. I look at the seven players who were in my under-21s a couple of years ago and they are now playing senior football. It's brilliant to see for Northern Irish football.

Ian Baraclough, Northern Ireland manager

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I've had no fear to throw the younger players in because of how they have been in the last camp and this one. Someone like Conor Bradley, who has come of age massively. I had no hesitation in putting him on and that is the measure of what we have coming through.

Ian Baraclough, Northern Ireland manager

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I said to the boys I'm immensely proud of how the boys have conducted themselves over the past 10 days. I felt, for their endeavour, they deserved a bit more tonight. Again, Bailey comes up trumps with a penalty save - I'm not sure it's a penalty. Yes there is an arm there but the guy has thrown himself to the ground. We had our chances, Shayne Lavery was a constant threat and I thought we were positive in all we tried to do.

Ian Baraclough, Northern Ireland manager

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In Steven Davis, Ali McCann has the right player alongside him to have a look at and see his attitude and professionalism. He's going to be a big player for us. He's been exceptional for St Johnstone and he now has his chance at Preston.

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There were a lot of positives from a tremendous Northern Ireland performance. We were missing a lot of players but the players who came in performed brilliantly. I think hopes of qualification have gone now. It may take two or three years but we have the makings of a good side. To qualify from this position would take a miracle but at least we know we have a goalscorer again in Shayne Lavery.

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Baraclough set his stall out and it was a defensively, brilliant, organised, hard to beat performance - attributes you associate with any Northern Ireland side. We weren't able to play passes and didn't isolate centre halves like we did in the first half. If you don't get the first pass away to start counter attacks you will struggle.