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25th June 2016
06:09pm BST

"I have spent my time here, in the last two odd years, sending out what I consider to be adventurous teams to win games," he bellied. "We played an adventurous game against Sweden but that wasn't allowed to happen against Belgium - that could happen. They are the number two team in the world, that'd give you an indication of where they're at. "The game against Italy, we needed extra energy as we have some players in their 30s and we had to get that energy into the side and not only did we get that but we played brilliantly in the game. "I don't think you want to go out of the competition meekly. You want to go out blazing and we feel we can do something."If you're going to go out, go out blazing. Go down fighting. With your shield. That confidence has filled the camp ever since Wednesday. Whereas the French are praising Ireland's mental toughness, their spirit, and their heart, there's a group of men here from a small island who are planning a big upset in front of 50,000 French supporters. And they don't particularly want to do it by hanging in there for as long as they can.
"Mental toughness has been very important," O'Neill agreed. "We spurned a great chance against Italy and the players would have been thinking that is it, then Robbie starts a move off and continues a run into the penalty area which was magnificent and he meets the ball with no fear - this lad who was crushed with Norwich. "But he showed no fear and that goal epitomised the spirit in the team. "We keep talking about spirit but we have players who can play. They can play which you have to be as you couldn't play that well against Sweden and Italy and get four points if you didn't have players who can play."
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