{"id":619631,"date":"2025-12-08T08:01:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T08:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/619631\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T08:01:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T08:01:29","slug":"northern-ireland-football-italys-gennaro-gattuso-admits-there-is-huge-responsibility-on-his-side-to-avoid-missing-out-on-world-cup-yet-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/619631\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland football: Italy&#8217;s Gennaro Gattuso admits there is &#8216;huge responsibility&#8217; on his side to avoid missing out on World Cup yet again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gennaro Gattuso admits Italy are under severe pressure going into the World Cup Play-Offs\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tyImages-2247144382.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)\">Gennaro Gattuso admits Italy are under severe pressure going into 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)\">Italy boss Gennaro Gattuso has admitted his side are already feeling the pressure ahead of the high-stakes World Cup Play-Off showdown with Northern Ireland.<\/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)\">The Azzurri will need to sweep aside Michael O\u2019Neill\u2019s men to retain hopes of returning to the world\u2019s biggest football tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gennaro Gattuso admits Italy are under severe pressure going into the World Cup Play-Offs Italy boss Gennaro Gattuso&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[8544,1144,8538,16,15,1514],"class_list":{"0":"post-619631","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\/115682901825261499","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619631","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=619631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}