State of the Nation: What Ireland need to do to qualify

Group D’s qualification permutations became a lot clearer following Monday night’s results ahead of two final rounds of fixtures in October.

The top-two ranked sides qualify for next summer’s tournament with whoever finishes in third-place entering a two-legged playoff (the highest ranked third-place finisher qualifies automatically).

Republic of Ireland Ireland will be guaranteed a top-three finish provided they take a point from their upcoming jousts with Germany (home) and Poland (away) as well as Scotland failing to win one of their remaining fixtures against Gibraltar or the Poles.