BLACKBURN Rovers midfielder Corry Evans insists Northern Ireland will take the game to reigning world champions Germany at the Parc des Princes today (5pm).

Michael O’Neill’s side’s historic 2-0 win over Ukraine on Thursday means they stand a chance of qualifying from Group C no matter the outcome in Paris this afternoon.

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But they will certainly seal their place in the round of 16 with victory over the 2014 World Cup winners.

And Evans, who starred in the success over Ukraine, said: “You've got to try and get a result regardless because you don’t want to be relying on other teams and waiting for their results.

“We’ve got to take the game to the Germans like we did Thursday against Ukraine.”

The win over Ukraine was Northern Ireland’s first at a European Championship and left them third in the standings, on three points, behind Germany and Poland, who each have four.

Evans and his older sibling, West Brom centre-back Jonny Evans, also created history of their own as they became the first brothers to play for Northern Ireland at a major tournament.

Corry said: “It was unbelievable. Personally, for myself, it was great to be playing and be involved in a game of that magnitude, but to share it with my brother was something special.

“We had our family and friends – plenty of them – in the crowd so to have them there as well and even just to get the win, the whole night was brilliant.”

Corry admitted the emotion got to his big brother Jonny afterwards: “He (Jonny) started crying and hugging me.

“I was saying, ‘what are you crying for, we’ve just beaten Ukraine’, and he just couldn’t speak. He was just in tears.

“He’s obviously the emotional one in the family. I’m a bit colder. But what a night. It’s one I’ll never forget.”

But, asked whether we will shed a tear of his own if Northern Ireland beat Germany, Corry said: “Maybe, we’ll see!

“It would be something special to beat the world champions and maybe potentially top the group and get through.”

Germany have not lost a match at a major tournament since going down to Italy in the semi-finals of Euro 2012 and boast players of the calibre of Mesut Ozil, Toni Kroos and Thomas Muller.

But Corry, while admitting Northern Ireland will have to nullify the threat of the key trio, said: “When you're on the pitch it doesn’t matter.

“The build-up to the games, the media, builds these players up but when you actually get on a pitch and in and around them it's just another game to me personally.

“Obviously you respect your opponent but you’ve got to earn respect from them, play your own game, just try and do what we do best and get in and around these players and make it difficult for them.”

Northern Ireland will be roared on by the Green and White Army in the French capital today and Corry admits the noise they made in the victory over Ukraine and the defeat to Poland was ‘something else’, louder even that ‘Blackburn v Burnley’.

The rest of his Rovers team-mates start life under Owen Coyle on Monday when they start pre-season training.

Corry will not return to Brockhall until next month but he has confirmed he has spoken to the new Ewood Park chief.

He said: “Owen Coyle gave me a call last week just introducing himself over the phone.

“He said he’ll have a chat with me in due course, depending on how far we go in the tournament to decide when we’ll go back in.”