O’Neill accepts pressure now on to bounce back against Serbia

With Serbia opening up a two-point gap at the top of Group D and Wales closing to within two in third place, Ireland are suddenly feeling the World Cup squeeze after a desperately poor performance away to Georgia.

After other key results on Saturday brought mainly ominous news for Ireland’s World Cup ambitions, and in the wake of his own side’s much-criticised performance in that 1-1 draw in Tbilisi, Martin O’Neill says he’ll consider making changes to his team for tomorrow night’s crunch game against Serbia at the Aviva.

“Well, we’ll take a look at it,” he said. “Yes, I’ve got one or two champing at the bit and that’s encouraging. There was definitely a sense of disappointment in the dressing-room on Saturday.