Conor Bradley has belief in Northern Ireland's World Cup hopes

Conor Bradley believes Northern Ireland should go into next year's World Cup qualifiers confident they can qualify after earning promotion to the second tier of the Nations League.

Monday’s final Group 3 fixture ended in some disappointment after a 2-0 lead turned into a 2-2 draw away to Luxembourg, but Northern Ireland still emerged as group winners to secure a return to League B.

Promotion caps a very positive year for a young side, who have won five of their 10 games and lost only two, one of those a friendly against Spain just a few weeks before they were crowned European champions.

Attention now turns to the draw for next year’s World Cup qualifiers, and Liverpool’s Bradley believes Northern Ireland have every reason to believe they can be in contention.

"Definitely," the 21-year-old said. "I don’t see why not. We are a young team that has to learn on the job in a way but I feel we are getting better with every game and we can go into the World Cup with hope. I’m really looking forward to it."

Bradley got his fourth international goal in Luxembourg, doubling Northern Ireland’s lead after Isaac Price’s first-half strike. Luxembourg hit back with two in three minutes late on through Seid Korac and Gerson Rodrigues – but bar a few mad minutes this was another impressive Northern Ireland display.

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"I thought it was probably one of our best performances in the whole group," Bradley added. "We played some fantastic football throughout and then there was a five or 10-minute spell when