{"id":577898,"date":"2025-11-18T08:21:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T08:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/577898\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T08:21:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T08:21:17","slug":"michael-oneills-squad-options-were-laid-bare-against-luxembourg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/577898\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s squad options were laid bare against Luxembourg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Northern Ireland boss Michael O'Neill will hope Isaac Price can shine during the World Cup Play-Offs\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/30feedb5-7d96-423f-b068-ac94a289dea8.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)\">Northern Ireland boss Michael O&#8217;Neill will hope Isaac Price can shine during the World Cup Play-Offs<\/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 certain, if inevitable, academic air may have swept over Monday night\u2019s final World Cup qualifying Group A meeting between Northern Ireland and 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)\">Crucially, though, the 1-0 win at Windsor Park for the men in green at least proved a necessary, if not exactly revelatory, exercise for Michael O\u2019Neill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland boss Michael O&#8217;Neill will hope Isaac Price can shine during the World Cup Play-Offs A certain,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[31133,8543,1144,8538,16,15,1514],"class_list":{"0":"post-577898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-michael-oneill","9":"tag-national-stadium-at-windsor-park","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-northern-ireland-football-team","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-world-cup"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115569734359486665","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577898","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=577898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}