SOUNDBITE (English) Martin O'Neill, Republic of Ireland manager

"It's going to be very, very tough indeed. But a couple of weeks ago before we played Germany at home and Poland away I suppose if you'd asked me if we would be in this position to be in the draw - I probably would have taken that. So we are here. We were going to get somebody. If you were to ask all the coaches here, if there was any advantage to be taken then it is to have the second game at home. So from that viewpoint, we take some type of consolation from that. We just give it everything we have got."

SOUNDBITE (English) Martin O'Neill, Republic of Ireland manager

On Edin Dzeko

"He is a top class player. Absolutely top class player and Bosnia (and Herzegovina) have a few of those in their side. It won't be easy but we will give it everything."

Q. What do you make of Dzeko as a player? What do you think his qualities are?

"I think they are there for all to see. He has proven himself at Manchester City. I think with a surplus of extraordinary talent. And he thought he perhaps wasn't going to be playing every week and this (moving to Roma) is what he wanted to do. But he is a top class player."