{"id":846307,"date":"2026-03-24T03:47:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T03:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/846307\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T03:47:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T03:47:20","slug":"northern-ireland-manager-oneill-itll-be-a-low-scoring-match-against-italy-we-have-to-believe-in-ourselves-weve-got-everything-to-gain-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/846307\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland manager O\u2019Neill: \u201cIt\u2019ll be a low-scoring match against Italy. We have to believe in ourselves; we\u2019ve got everything to gain.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><strong>&#8220;We have to believe in ourselves, because if we don\u2019t believe in ourselves, no one else will either<\/strong><\/b>. We\u2019ve faced many challenges and come through them well. We\u2019re a young, developing team, and <b><strong>we have more to gain than to lose.<\/strong><\/b> We know it will be very difficult to win, but <b><strong>we\u2019re proud to still be in the running<\/strong><\/b>. <b><strong>I don\u2019t expect a high-scoring match; <\/strong><\/b>we\u2019ll have to be flawless in defence and make the most of our chances.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;We have to believe in ourselves, because if we don\u2019t believe in ourselves, no one else will either.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":845891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[2199,241793,1144,16,15,30157],"class_list":{"0":"post-846307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-italy","9":"tag-italy-vs-northern-ireland","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-world-cup-qualification-uefa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116282107581597856","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846307","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=846307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/845891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}