Impressive that NI put Germany under real pressure at times tonight. They had to do better with the chances though - too many almost straight at the keeper.
If they had strikers as good as Hume and Ballard are as defenders ... ... they'd have beaten Germany. What great players we have at Sunderland, I'll applaud both of them in particular on Saturday.
Didn't watch all of it, but from what I saw both Ballard and Hume were immense. Second half NI gave the Germans a good go, but lacked enough quality up top to hurt them. The referee was definitely fussy and I'd like to see that incident again at the end, as it looked like an NI player was pulled down on the goal line. Overall I'd be hopeful that NI can get the results in the last two games to get a play off place. And from what I saw, I wasn't very impressed with Germany.
I really like them. They’ve got a really good young team who fight for everything and play decent footy. If they beat Luxembourg by a couple of goals, they’ll probably only need a draw at Slovakia to make the playoffs.
