Louise Quinn confident Ireland have tools to pull off shock win againt Sweden

Louise Quinn has full confidence the Republic of Ireland can live with the best teams in the world as they look to shock Sweden at the Aviva Stadium on Friday night.

The Girls in Green are in an incredibly difficult Euro 2024 qualification group that also includes France and England, who beat Eileen Gleeson's side 1-0 and 2-0 respectively in the April window.

All three of Ireland's opponents are ranked inside the world's top six, but veteran centre-half Quinn has detected reasons to be optimistic as they chase a Swedish scalp.

"I think we put in more of a performance in the second halves of the games (against France and England) so it's just trying to monitor the little bits we can improve on," she said.

"We're stepping up to a new level of intensity.

"As soon as you're finished one game you're like, 'right we've just played France and now we have England and then next is Sweden'. You have to quickly reflect and try figure out what to change.

"We have gone from League B teams (in last autumn's UEFA Nations League) that are ranked lower than us and now we've made this massive jump to play some of the best teams in the world.

"That's a big, big jump in terms of getting up to that pace. We've shown it for one half of a game, that's there, we can do it. It's not out of our grasp at all but it's something we're going to have to start working on now."

"We're going to have our hands full for sure but we've had some decent results against them."

Sweden will be without their trio of Arsenal stars in Stina Blackstenius, Amanda Ilestedt and Lina Hurtig for the trip to Dublin and subsequent rematch in Stockholm the following Tuesday.

They are, on paper, the big gun in the group most vulnerable to slipping up against Ireland, who drew 1-1 in