O'Sullivan: 'Our focus is to get as many wins as we can to be ranked highest'

Another six points will seal top spot with next month’s double-header against Hungary and Northern Ireland to spare.

QUALIFYING FOR EUROS: Denise O'Sullivan and interim head coach Eileen Gleeson during a Republic of Ireland women press conference at Tallaght Stadium in Dublin. Pic: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

However humbling the growing prospect is of Albania overtaking Ireland in the men’s seeding, their female equivalent have no such worries ahead of facing the minnows tonight.

The team under caretaker manager Eileen Gleeson are justifying their top seed status by sauntering towards top spot in the group and nothing the Albanians conjure, either in Dublin or Shkodër on Tuesday, will brush them off-course.