Northern Ireland coach Michael O'Neill has expressed his disappointment at his side's defeat to Israel in their World Cup qualifier on Tuesday.

Late goals from Lior Refaelov and Eden Ben Basat saw O'Neill's team lose the Group F encounter 2-0 at Windsor Park in Belfast.

"It's hugely disappointing, hugely frustrating," Sky Sports News quotes O'Neill as saying. "I felt we controlled large portions of the game again, certainly in the first half I thought some of our play was excellent, we created some good chances which we didn't take and we were punished twice on the counter-attack towards the end.

"Again we make life difficult for ourselves to be honest. It's just a case of when we've been in a strong position in games, when we've dominated possession, we've never capitalised on that.

"We've missed chances at important parts of the game and ultimately we've been punished when we've given the other team a bit of initiative. We have to start winning games, we have to get a winning mentality into this group of players."

Northern Ireland are now fourth in the group with three points from five matches.