{"id":618161,"date":"2026-09-16T20:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T20:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/618161\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T20:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T20:00:10","slug":"running-on-empty-alex-neil-issues-honest-fitness-update-on-depleted-millwall-ahead-of-west-ham-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/618161\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Running on empty!&#8217; \u2013 Alex Neil issues honest fitness update on depleted Millwall ahead of West Ham clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking post-match, Neil hailed his players for battling through a severe injury crisis that has left 11 first-team regulars sidelined. He admitted that demanding travel schedules and back-to-back midweek fixtures have pushed his squad to their physical limits.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the late equaliser, the Scottish manager refused to fault his team&#8217;s commitment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can\u2019t fault the effort,&#8221; Neil stated. &#8220;We\u2019ve done four back-to-back Tuesdays now in a row. We\u2019ve got West Ham at the weekend, and we\u2019ve got a lot of lads running on empty just now. I\u2019m really pleased with the effort that they\u2019ve put in.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking post-match, Neil hailed his players for battling through a severe injury crisis that has left 11 first-team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[279549,36038,85,46,279536,279538,105,57728],"class_list":["post-618161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-a-neil","tag-championship","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-millwall","tag-millwall-vs-west-ham-united","tag-sports","tag-west-ham-united"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}