Speaking to the media before this morning’s training session at Manchester City’s Etihad Campus, manager Michael O’Neill said: “We have done a level of analysis on Qatar; I think they are an athletic team, also they’ve just changed their coach which always pose a little problem as he may have a totally different structure or different ideas on how he wants the team to play compared to the previous coach.”
The friendly against Qatar on Sunday kicks-off at 5.00pm.
Northern Ireland have not lost any of the last eight friendly encounters they have found the net in stretching back 10 years.
Three of those matches ended in victories; Georgia (home 4-1), Finland (away 2-1) and Estonia (home 1-0).