{"id":127499,"date":"2025-10-17T07:10:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T07:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/127499\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T07:10:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T07:10:21","slug":"gary-breen-heimir-hallgrimsson-is-clinging-on-to-a-plan-that-leaves-his-players-terrified-of-making-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/127499\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Breen: Heimir Hallgrimsson is clinging on to a plan that leaves his players terrified of making mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nPassive approach is coming from manager hanging on for dear life after losing belief\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Heimir Hallgrimsson and assistant coach Paddy McCarthy (left) during an Ireland training session. The latter's work at Crystal Palace shows the system they are employing can be very competitive if it\u2019s coached well. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/260caa53-9b43-421f-a3a9-11e0b5be0990.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Heimir Hallgrimsson and assistant coach Paddy McCarthy (left) during an Ireland training session. The latter&#8217;s work at Crystal Palace shows the system they are employing can be very competitive if it\u2019s coached well. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The realisation that this Ireland team just do not know how and when to press came early to me in Tuesday\u2019s slog against Armenia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I suspect that realisation came much quicker to Heimir Hallgrimsson. It\u2019s possible he suspected it before Yerevan but that would have confirmed it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Passive approach is coming from manager hanging on for dear life after losing belief Heimir Hallgrimsson and assistant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,17065,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-127499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-heimir-hallgrimsson","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}