Northern Ireland manager Tanya Oxtoby admits her broadside "caused problems for ourselves" successful Friday's 4-0 decision by Poland successful the Nations League.
Barcelona striker Ewa Pajor scored twice successful the opening 10 minutes arsenic Poland secured an contiguous instrumentality to League A.
Pajor past provided assists for Paulina Tomasiak and Adriana Achcinska, which means Northern Ireland volition present look disconnected with Bosnia-Herzegovina connected Tuesday for the promotion play-off spot.
"The program wasn't executed arsenic we would person liked," said Australian Oxtoby of Northern Ireland's mediocre start.
"The spaces were determination we wanted to exploit but we were sloppy with the ball.
"We caused problems for ourselves, we addressed that astatine half-time and changed our signifier to effort and assistance successful that area."
Oxtoby added that "it's not 1 azygous thing" down the show and result, but the "players cognize we tin beryllium better".
Despite the defeat, Northern Ireland's hopes of winning promotion to League A for the archetypal clip are inactive successful their hands.
Second spot secures a play-off spot against a League A side, and Northern Ireland are presently 3 points up of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Teams connected level points are divided by their head-to-head ranking, truthful adjacent if NI autumn to decision successful Zenica they could inactive clasp onto 2nd up of the Bosnians acknowledgment to February's melodramatic 3-2 triumph successful Larne.
"We were disappointed with the archetypal half, that goes without saying," added Oxtoby.
"We tweaked immoderate things astatine fractional clip and the second-half show was better.
"We managed to get Abi (Sweetlove) and Aimee (Kerr) connected the transportation for their elder debuts, truthful there's immoderate existent positives but we've present got to absorption connected the Bosnia game.
"It's a important 1 for us. The players cognize that we tin beryllium amended and I've got afloat content that we'll spell connected Tuesday and enactment successful a truly bully performance."
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