{"id":568977,"date":"2025-11-14T03:22:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T03:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/568977\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T03:22:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T03:22:18","slug":"northern-ireland-overcome-latvia-in-u21-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/568977\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland overcome Latvia in U21 qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Northern Ireland beat Latvia 1-0 in their Euro Under-21 Championship qualifying match at the Oval.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sam Glenfield&#8217;s free-kick in the 60th minute proved enough to seal the crucial three points for the home side.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The result means that Northern Ireland leapfrog Germany and Georgia and move up to second position in Group F.<\/p>\n<p>Tommy Wright&#8217;s side now face group leaders Greece in Livadia on Tuesday, 18 November.<\/p>\n<p>During a first half of few chances, Nikita Parfjonovs made a good save to stop Tom Atcheson&#8217;s header before Stephen McMullan denied Valerijs Lizunovs&#8217; shot at the other end.<\/p>\n<p>Before the break, Tommy Fogarty nodded Glenfield&#8217;s delivery into the box narrowly wide.<\/p>\n<p>Northern Ireland took the lead on the hour mark after Eoin Kenny was fouled just outside the box and Glenfield fired the resulting free-kick into the top corner.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Russell and Kirk both came close to doubling Northern Ireland&#8217;s advantage shortly after but couldn&#8217;t keep their efforts on target.<\/p>\n<p>In the closing stages of the game, another good save from stopper McMullan denied Lativia a goal with the away side&#8217;s wait for their first win of the campaign continuing.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763090538_552_\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland beat Latvia 1-0 in their Euro Under-21 Championship qualifying match at the Oval. Sam Glenfield&#8217;s free-kick&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1824,180617,1144,180618,180616,164964,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-568977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-germany","9":"tag-glenfield","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-stephen-mcmullan","12":"tag-tom-atcheson","13":"tag-tommy-wright","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115545909127899793","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568977","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=568977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}