O’Shea stated that the Irish, beneath new boss Heimir Hallgrimsson, cannot afford to turn into preoccupied with Rice given the array of expertise within the England squad.
“If you play a staff which have simply been in a Euros ultimate, you recognize they’ve plenty of threats, they’ve plenty of choices to choose from.
“The total focus from our perspective is what we will do to cease them and extra importantly, what we will do to trigger them issues.”
The connections between the squads is additional elevated by ex-Republic of Eire midfielder Lee Carsley now being in interim cost of the England facet.
Carsley has stepped up from the Underneath-21 facet following the departure of Gareth Southgate and has a possibility to stake a declare for the function full-time.
“It is nothing for us to fret about,” reiterated O’Shea.
“Our focus is on the beginning of the Nations League, the supervisor coming in, Heimir, and that we give him our full backing, our full help, and hopefully get off to a very good begin.”