First and foremost, this is Andorra. I honestly don't see them posing any problems whatsoever, and all the talk about them being poor opposition is absolutely true. You will always get people to say that there are no weak teams in international football anymore, but I'm sorry, Andorra are a weak team.

Those couple of team changes were more or less expected for this game from the win over Cyprus on Saturday but it is hardly going to make a whole lot of difference either way as to which team Mick McCarthy fields. It's always good to freshen up the team a little bit and give one or two more a starting place, but he was never going to take away the nucleus of the team.

So I fully expect a comfortable win. The only thing affecting the comfort and margin of the victory will be how quickly they can score. Anytime you are playing against a side that are vastly inferior like this then it's the timing of the first goal that is all important. If they can score early, it's more likely that they can go on and win by four or five to nil.

But if it starts taking a while to score, then the confidence of the opposition will start building up a little. What the Irish have to do is dictate the tempo from the start, and raise it to such a level that Andorra will struggle to play any sort of football.

So being such strong favourites, the only aim here will be to secure the points as quickly as possible. If, like Saturday, they are two goals up after 40 minutes then great, and it's mission more or less accomplished.

Performance is just as secondary as it was against Cyprus. Bearing in mind the make-up of the group, this is a game that was always going to produce three points. It's not even a case of any players having to prove themselves. International fixtures in March, and especially for players in Britain, are always the most difficult because it's that stage of the season where they are always starting to flag. And so you can get some tired performances.

Some people wanted to pick holes in the performance in Cyprus but I'm of the opposite view. The only task was to beat them and on Monday morning the result was still 4-0. That was the most important thing there and it's the same thing here with Andorra. It may well be that one of the players scores a hat-trick tonight and we know that Robbie Keane wants to score, but because this is Andorra, everything, and including that, is secondary to the result.

I wasn't surprised that McCarthy decided to give Damien Duff a starting place. Against these kind of teams you have to play with width because if they are stretched and streamed out then the holes tend to appear earlier, and they are definitely bigger by the end of the match.

And McCarthy won't need to say a whole lot before kick-off. Again, it's just a case of doing the job sooner rather than later and then we can all relax. He won't want any sort of hairy moments and certainly no shocks, but with routine concentration and application, then it will be another comfortable win.

I expect that Roy Keane - who had such an immense display on Saturday - will come out again just as hard. He'll see this game more as a nuisance - in the nicest sense of the word - and will want to get them out of the way as soon as possible. In fact, as far as the whole team and management are concerned, it's fast forward through these two next matches - Andorra away and then home - and then bring on the big one, Portugal at home.

One eye tonight will definitely be cast across to Lisbon where Portugal are playing the Dutch. I still believe that Portugal will be the team to beat at Lansdowne next June if Ireland have any real hope of finishing top of the group. They are without doubt the best team in the group.

The decision on these fixtures has also proved very wise. We had the two crunch games with Portugal and Holland out of the way straight away, and even though the Irish could have been beaten, they haven't been. It's been a very well planned campaign so far.

(In an interview with Ian O'Riordan)