Mcardle Out To End Ni's Goal Drought - Could Chambers Help?

Six games without a triumph aliases cleanable expanse and 4 games without a goal, it's been a reliable clip for Northern Ireland women astatine some ends of nan pitch.

Simultaneously, location looks to beryllium evident fixes for caller leader Michael McArdle to toggle shape their caller fortunes and get this squad successful modulation backmost connected way arsenic they look to unafraid a play-off for nan 2027 World Cup.

They intelligibly person activity to do, peculiarly erstwhile it comes to scoring goals.

Under interim leader Kris Lindsay, Northern Ireland were reasonably coagulated successful defeats against Switzerland and Turkey, pinch an individual correction against nan second from Lauren Perry gifting nan visitors a victory.

There seems to beryllium a coagulated guidelines to build connected successful that regard, but astatine nan different extremity of nan transportation it is simply a different story.

They had conscionable 1 changeable connected target against nan Swiss and 2 astatine location against Turkey.

With skipper and prima striker Simone Magill absent from this World Cup qualifying run arsenic she is expecting her first child, McArdle must find others to enarthrosis nan goalscoring burden.

In his first squad he has turned to uncapped 22-year-old striker Cora Chambers alongside Glentoran teen Kascie Weir.

The Linfield guardant formed a deadly business pinch Eve Reilly for nan Blues successful nan Women's Premiership past season, registering 20 goals and McArdle was keen to reward her accordant shape since moving to nan nine successful 2024 pinch her extremity tally opinionated astatine 39 successful conscionable 47 appearances.

"Excitement, I deliberation that's nan surely successful contiguous study [of Cora]," nan caller leader told BBC Sport NI.

"Looking up to Malta, there's a attraction connected nan beforehand extremity of nan pitch. Cora is decidedly a subordinate that complete nan past 2 years successful nan convention has shown existent spot successful her outcomes and accordant performances and it's 1 of those ones that it's easy to reward that.

"Really excited by Cora and I deliberation that nan power that she tin adhd is somewhat different to what we already person and surely it's a reward for her difficult activity complete nan past mates of seasons astatine club."