Northern Ireland manager Michael O'Neill is targeting a repeat of his side's 2016 triumph against Hungary.
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Now in O'Neill's second tenure, Northern Ireland would still be a long way off qualification for Euro 2024 even with a victory over Slovenia on Thursday, but the manager is craving that spark to ignite a new adventure. Going into Thursday's match in Ljubljana, O'Neill wants to inspire his players to another magic moment."No international game away from home is easy to win, and this group of players have to get that mentality.
"It takes something like that to maybe ignite a little run of confidence and form and this is as good a place as any to start."If Northern Ireland are to do it, they will have to against the odds with 10 senior players missing - including the experienced Steven Davis, Stuart Dallas and Corry Evans - and another doubtful in Daniel Ballard.
"Equally, the players we have absent, we would like to have a number of them back. At this moment in time, with the younger players that we have, there is a different dynamic to the team.
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