{"id":223838,"date":"2025-06-29T11:13:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T11:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/223838\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T11:13:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T11:13:31","slug":"denmark-2-1-northern-ireland-we-showed-a-lot-of-character-in-defeat-michael-oneill-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/223838\/","title":{"rendered":"Denmark 2-1 Northern Ireland: We showed a lot of character in defeat &#8211; Michael O&#8217;Neill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The friendly in Copenhagen, and Iceland&#8217;s visit to Windsor Park on Tuesday are the final two qualifiers before Northern Ireland begin their World Cup qualifying campaign in September. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They start their bid in Luxembourg and Germany, and also face Slovakia in Group A. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">O&#8217;Neill said his side &#8220;got off to a good start&#8221; in Denmark and defended well, but struggled to keep hold of possession and that pressure only intensified in the second half as Denmark dominated the ball. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a very young team against an experienced team,&#8221; O&#8217;Neill added, as his 26-strong squad only contained one player over the age of 30 in the form of substitute George Saville.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Physically it was tough at times for us but overall we got what we wanted out of the game. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The most important thing, as I said before this, is the players come away realising we&#8217;re going to have to play games of this nature in Slovakia, Luxembourg and Germany as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The friendly in Copenhagen, and Iceland&#8217;s visit to Windsor Park on Tuesday are the final two qualifiers before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-223838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114766361816444308","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}