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'No doubting' teenager Smith's talent - Oxtoby

Northern Ireland manager Tanya OxtobyInpho

Tanya Oxtoby's Northern Ireland side have won two and drawn one of their four matches in Nations League Group B1

Richard Petrie
BBC Sport NI Journalist

Northern Ireland manager Tanya Oxtoby says she is "really excited" by the inclusion of 16-year-old goalkeeper Abbie Smith in her squad for the forthcoming Nations League games against Poland and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Smith has been named in the senior squad for the first time after ing Manchester City on a two-year scholarship from Crusaders Strikers in March.

The teenager was brought in to train with the squad last month but is now officially part of the after impressing the NI boss.

Northern Ireland sit second in Group B1, four points behind the table-topping Poles before the final pair of fixtures.

They will play the unbeaten group leaders at Seaview in Belfast on Friday, 30 May and then travel to Zenica to face third-placed Bosnia-Herzegovina on Tuesday, 3 June.

"Abbie came in and she was seamless in relation to training intensity, being in and around the group and the maturity that she showed," said Oxtoby.

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