{"id":576054,"date":"2025-11-17T11:40:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T11:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/576054\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T11:40:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T11:40:28","slug":"northern-ireland-football-michael-oneill-needs-world-cup-play-off-heroes-to-step-up-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/576054\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland football: Michael O&#8217;Neill needs World Cup Play-Off heroes to step up now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Callum Marshall could be given the nod up top for Northern Ireland against Luxembourg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/006cc55a-7230-4262-9dd6-c7406483d782.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Callum Marshall could be given the nod up top for Northern Ireland against Luxembourg<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Michael O\u2019Neill\u2019s world hasn\u2019t fallen apart yet, but he has issues to address ahead of March. After Tomas Bobcek\u2019s stoppage-time winner on Friday, the Luxembourg clash at Windsor Park on Monday night is not the thrilling climax in Group A we craved but it\u2019s clear that the Northern Ireland manager has three major headaches to banish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A failure to address them will see the men in green remain as also rans in the fight to qualify for a major tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Callum Marshall could be given the nod up top for Northern Ireland against Luxembourg Michael O\u2019Neill\u2019s world hasn\u2019t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[8544,1144,8538,16,15,1514],"class_list":{"0":"post-576054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-graham-luney","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-northern-ireland-football-team","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-world-cup"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115564854189847932","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576054","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=576054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}