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- Updated: October 7, 2016
San Marino are hopeful Northern Ireland’s unfamiliar role as favourites for Saturday’s World Cup qualifier can play into their hands, according to manager Pierangelo Manzaroli.
Having never won a competitive game in their history, the microstate have arrived in Belfast as a clear underdog against a country who earlier this year pieced together a record 12-match unbeaten sequence.
The gulf between the two nations would not have been considered so great not so long ago, but Michael O’Neill has elevated his current squad, ensuring that anything other than …