Nations League LIVE: Scotland and Northern Ireland prepare for decisive final and Phil McNulty Q&A

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Heimir Hallgrimsson said he was “lost for words” after the Republic of Ireland team “gave up” during the second-half collapse that saw England suffer a crushing 5-0 Nations League defeat at Wembley.

“Six minutes of kind of madness,” he said. “Yes, it was a shock to concede a penalty, concede a goal, lose a player. We probably lost our minds now, we scored the second and third goal. And you can see from there, yes, maybe we lost our minds, we gave up.”

The former Iceland boss, who replaced Stephen Kenny earlier this year, added: “We spoke and said before we had confidence issues and they clearly destroyed our confidence in the things we did really well in the first half.

“So yeah, you can’t explain things like that. It just happened, it was a slap in the face and it was hard to come back from that.”