BOSS ADMITS THAT MIRACLE IS NEEDED

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lose, you're always thinking about it. You always want to do better. Our focus is to do better. You always want to do better and that is now our focus, to do better. To restart. That's the only thing we can do as coaches.

Hallgrimsson is under contract until the end of the World Cup campaign - and if results don't somehow pick up there could be another long search for a new boss.

However, the head coach insisted: "I'm not concerned about me. When you have a performance like this, the coach's job is under question, that's just the name of the game.

"The campaign, definitely, we probably need a miracle to qualify from now. So, yeah, this is a short answer to your question."

Hallgrimsson said he was "a little lost for words" when asked for his initial assessment of Ireland's defeat.