Colin Bell's heroines confident of making history against Norway

After producing a couple of magic moments for Irish women’s football in their World Cup qualification campaign to date, Áine O’Gorman wants the team to deliver a meteoric one in the Norwegian coastal city of Stavanger this evening.

The Colin Bell era, thus far characterised by defensive nous, will need a spark at the other end as only victory against top seeds Norway will avoid their hopes of a play-off disappearing with the concluding qualifier against Northern Ireland in late August still to play.

O’Gorman, the Peamount United player, will earn her 100th cap and it will need something similar to John O’Shea’s last-gasp equaliser in Gelsenkirchen almost four years on his century appearance for Ireland’s plight to be rescued.