BLACKBURN Rovers midfielder Corry Evans is aiming to transfer his fantastic club form on to the international stage tonight and help his country make history.

Evans, who is playing some of the best football of his Rovers career, is in line to start for Northern Ireland in their huge Euro 2016 qualifier against Greece.

Should Michael O’Neill’s table-topping side beat the rock-bottom Greeks they would secure the country’s first appearance at a major finals for 30 years – and a first ever appearance at a European Championships.

But even if giant-killing Northern Ireland, the fifth seeds in the six-team Group F, were to draw or lose, they would have a second and final chance to seal their place at next year’s finals in France away to Finland on Sunday.

An excited Evans, however, wants to finish the job tonight at Windsor Park.

The 25-year-old said: “It’s within our grasp now with two games left.

“But the Greece game is the one we’re fully focused on. Hopefully we’ll be able to put it to bed and it will not go down to the last game.

“The whole country is on a buzz. The fans support us ever so well; every home game and away game they come in their thousands.

“They are probably the loudest fans I’ve heard and seen and no doubt half the country will be there (in France) if and when we do qualify.

“Hopefully we can make them proud and get there on October 8.”

Northern Ireland last qualified for a major finals in 1986 when Billy Bingham’s squad, including then Rovers striker Jimmy Quinn, competed at the World Cup in Mexico.

And Evans, who was born four years later, said: “Growing up the expectations with Northern Ireland were not very high but it’s something we can change; we can go on and make a bit of history, as we’ve never actually qualified for the European Championships.

“And if we did finish top it would be an unbelievable achievement. I think no pot five team has actually qualified for the tournament, so if we do, we’ll be the first as well.

“We have been through bad patches; we held the record for the longest time without scoring, so to see how far we’ve come is fantastic.

“If we could qualify it would make it all the better for the players who have stuck around all these years, the like of Aaron Hughes and Gareth McAuley, Chris Brunt and Chris Baird. If we do make it they can look back on their international careers with great memories.

“And ourselves, we’ll be the next experienced generation, and we can make a statement that we can compete to get to major tournaments.”

Lee Williamson has become the seventh and final first-team Rovers player to go away on international duty.

The midfielder will fly out to meet up with his Jamaica team-mates today ahead of their friendly with South Korea in Seoul on Tuesday.

Rovers boss Gary Bowyer was out of the country himself earlier this week.

Alongside assistant manager Terry McPhillips, head of player recruitment Tommy Johnson, and his father Ian, who is one of Johnson’s scouts, Bowyer travelled across four European countries looking at potential targets.

On Tuesday the party returned to Brockhall where Rovers’ reduced squad will continue training today.