"The situation is in our hands. We want to progress and get to the next level of Nations League football. It has given us a chance to put a lot of young players in the team and maybe not challenge them at the top, top level of international football."
"If we were to gain promotion it would give us the next tier of international football and those are the teams you have to finish ahead of if you're going to qualify [for tournament finals]."
"It was difficult to prepare. Obviously for the [Irish Football] Association it's difficult with that uncertainty. You want to play at home, financially it would have been difficult for us to lose out."
"Playing in an empty stadium or even with a limited number of our fans, who would have been able to travel, wouldn't have been ideal."
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