Thursday, November 22, 2007

Spain 1-0 Northern Ireland


Northern Ireland's Ivan Sproule grabs the shirt of Daniel Guiza

Northern Ireland's hopes of reaching the Euro 2008 finals disappeared when they fell to Spain in Las Palmas.


Nigel Worthington's side needed to win to have any chance of qualifying but they were beaten by a deflected shot seven minutes into the second half.

Hernandez Xavi's effort came off the head of defender Stephen Craigan giving keeper Maik Taylor no chance.

As things turned out, Northern Ireland could not have gone through anyway as Sweden beat Latvia 2-1.

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