{"id":123131,"date":"2025-09-08T15:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T15:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/123131\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T15:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T15:44:10","slug":"internationals-marshall-features-in-northern-ireland-tie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/123131\/","title":{"rendered":"Internationals | Marshall features in Northern Ireland tie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Callum Marshall\u00a0was introduced as a second-half substitute in Northern Ireland\u2019s 3-1 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying Group A defeat in Germany on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The West Ham United striker replaced Ethan Galbraith with 14 minutes to play at the RheinEnergieSTADION in Cologne with his side trailing 3-1.<\/p>\n<p>West Bromwich Albion\u2019s Isaac Price had given Northern Ireland hope of pulling off a shock result when he equalised an opening Germany goal scored by Bayern Munich\u2019s Serge Gnabry before half-time.<\/p>\n<p>However, the home side restored order through goals from Mainz midfielder Nadiem Amiri and Liverpool new boy Florian Wirtz in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Marshall was then sent on by manager Michael O\u2019Neill for his 12th senior cap, but the 20-year-old could not spark an unlikely late comeback.<\/p>\n<p>After winning 3-1 away in Luxembourg on matchday one of six, Northern Ireland now sit second in Group A behind surprise leaders Slovakia, who followed up their 2-0 home win over Germany last Thursday with a dramatic late 1-0 away victory in Luxembourg on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Germany are third, level with Northern Ireland on goal difference but below them on goals scored, four to three.<\/p>\n<p>Northern Ireland have two home games in the next international window, against Slovakia on Friday 10 October and Germany on Monday 13 October, before finishing Group A with a trip to Slovakia and home game with Luxembourg in November.<\/p>\n<p>The group winners qualify automatically for next summer\u2019s tournament in North America, while the runners-up go into play-offs.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1920x1080-1_1.jpg\" alt=\"Spurs ticket promo\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Callum Marshall\u00a0was introduced as a second-half substitute in Northern Ireland\u2019s 3-1 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying Group A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-123131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}