Northern Ireland’s sense of injustice can fuel fightback, says Jonny Evans

• ‘We’ve got a big chance to turn it round,’ says defender of World Cup play-off
• Team go to Switzerland trailing 1-0 after ‘staggering’ penalty decision

Northern Ireland head to Switzerland with a raw sense of injustice that Jonny Evans believes can fuel the improvement required to salvage their World Cup aspirations.

Michael O’Neill said his team felt “a little bit of a victim” after the appalling penalty decision that handed Switzerland a 1-0 win in the play-off first leg at Windsor Park. Although understandably incensed by the Romanian referee Ovidiu Hategan’s performance, O’Neill and his players accept they cannot afford to dwell on Thursday’s incident as they seek to overturn the deficit in Basel on Sunday.

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