Northern Ireland defender Laura Rafferty says her broadside should instrumentality content into Friday's important Nations League crippled against Poland astatine Seaview.
Tanya Oxtoby's broadside mislaid 2-0 distant to the Euro 2025-bound Poles successful February and spell into the last 2 matches of their Group B1 run trailing the leaders by 3 points acknowledgment to consequent location wins implicit Bosnia-Herzogovina and Romania, positive an distant gully with the Romanians.
A triumph implicit Poland would enactment Northern Ireland successful power of their ain destiny successful presumption of perchance winning the radical going into Tuesday's travel to Zenica to play Bosnia-Herzegovina.
"We spoke astir our aims from the commencement and coming into the past 2 games we're wholly connected people and we cognize what we person to do," said Rafferty.
"Going into this crippled I deliberation we request to beryllium much assured [than successful the decision by Poland]. It's a monolithic crippled for america and the lone happening we privation from it is simply a win.
"We're looking guardant to it and we're conscionable dissecting their [Poland's] games. Teams person strengths, but they person weaknesses excessively and it's what you bash to exploit them."
Eighteen-year-old goalkeeper Kate Smith became the latest young subordinate to beryllium drafted into the NI squad connected Monday, joining the likes of chap stopper Abbie Smith, Aimee Kerr, Abi Sweetlove, Keri Halliday and Kascie Weir.
As 1 of the much experienced players successful the squad, Rafferty says the temper successful the campy successful beforehand of the double-header is "upbeat" and the youthful players are blending successful well.
"We've got truthful galore young players who travel successful without fear, a batch of younger additions who are coming successful and thoroughly enjoying it.
"The experiences and the learning that they'll get from this campy unsocial volition beryllium astonishing for their journeys."
The erstwhile Chelsea, Brighton and Southampton player, who besides had a indebtedness spell with Bristol City, has conscionable completed her archetypal play arsenic portion of the Rangers squad.
Her nine agonisingly mislaid retired to Hibernian connected the last time of the Scottish Women's Premier League play but 7 days aboriginal defeated Glasgow City 3-0 to triumph the Women's Scottish Cup last connected Sunday, adding that trophy to the Women's Premier League Cup they collected successful March.
"I've perfectly loved each infinitesimal astatine Rangers, determination person been a batch of fantastic moments during the twelvemonth and immoderate harder moments precocious with the league.
"When you play for a nine similar Rangers you privation to instrumentality each 3 [trophies], that's the mentality that you person to show.
"It wounded that Sunday, what happened [losing retired connected the league], monolithic congratulations to Hibs, but we past had the accidental to extremity the play connected a precocious going into the Glasgow City crippled and we wanted to permission nary regrets.
"At the extremity of the time the trophy was ours and we wanted to support our sanction connected it. We're gladsome to get the occupation done."
The 29-year-old centre-back hopes to marque further advancement successful her 2nd play successful Scotland.
"I've experienced a batch - caller league, caller players and a caller environment, that volition beryllium monolithic to assistance maine advancement adjacent much adjacent year."
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