Good Start 'important' In Qualifying - Charles

Fifa World Cup qualifier: Luxembourg v Northern Ireland

Venue: Stade de Luxembourg, Luxembourg Date: Thursday, 4 September Kick-off: 19:45 BST

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Northern Ireland midfielder Shea Charles says "the main point to get disconnected to a bully start" successful World Cup qualifying.

Michael O'Neill's broadside recreation to Luxembourg connected Thursday and look Germany 3 days later to unfastened their campaign.

Northern Ireland besides look Slovakia successful Group A and Charles says "confidence is high" successful O'Neill's youthful squad.

"I deliberation nary matter who we're going to play first game, it's important to get a bully start.

"Going distant from location successful nan first 2 games, I don't needfully deliberation it's a bad thing.

"If we tin spell to Luxembourg and get a win, past we've still sewage 3 much location games to go, truthful I deliberation it's exciting."

It is simply a difficult commencement for Northern Ireland successful World Cup qualifying, wherever they will beryllium expected to hit Luxembourg but beryllium immense underdogs distant to Germany successful their 2nd fixture.

Northern Ireland past faced Luxembourg successful November, erstwhile they threw distant a two-goal lead successful a melodramatic draw, which was still capable to decorativeness apical of their Nations League group.

Southampton midfielder Charles says it will beryllium a "tough game" successful Luxembourg but O'Neill's youthful broadside person learnt their lessons from November.

"The main point we tin study is we had chances to benignant of termination nan crippled off, evidently we didn't do that.

"And, besides connected nan flip side, conscionable to beryllium capable to enactment coagulated astatine nan back, which usually we are, isolated from nan overseas occasion.

"It was a spot disappointing to not triumph that game, truthful that's thing we learned that day, to spot our games.

"I cognize it's going to beryllium a reliable game, truthful we will conscionable spell location and effort and triumph nan crippled and that tin springiness america nan assurance to spell into nan adjacent game."

Northern Ireland person a number of wounded concerns heading into nan World Cup double header, including goalkeeper Pierce Charles and nan protect trio of Daniel Ballard, Brodie Spencer and Ciaron Brown.

Charles said he has "not sewage immoderate worries" astir players who will travel successful for those sidelined, but admitted he was "gutted" for his younger brother, who had established himself arsenic O'Neill's number one.

Bailey Peacock-Farrell, who Charles displaced, is an knowledgeable action and could get nan motion to commencement successful Luxembourg and Germany, while O'Neill besides has Luke Southwood and Stephen McMullan astatine his disposal.

"He was doing truthful good astatine Sheffield Wednesday and he was playing good for us, truthful it's a spot of a rustle for him, and for america really.

"But we've sewage nan players to travel successful and do a bully occupation successful that position."