{"id":196089,"date":"2025-10-13T01:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T01:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/196089\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T01:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T01:59:11","slug":"northern-ireland-v-germany-julian-nagelsmann-did-not-mean-any-disrespect-to-ni-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/196089\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland v Germany: Julian Nagelsmann did not mean ‘any disrespect’ to NI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Germany manager Julian Nagelsmann says Northern Ireland have a “special way” of playing and he did not mean any offence with his comments after his side’s 3-1 win in Cologne last month.<\/p>\n

The four-time World Cup winners will take on Michael O’Neill’s side again at Windsor Park in World Cup qualifying on Monday evening.<\/p>\n

After the September meeting, Nagelsmann described Northern Ireland as “not brilliant to watch” and they “played a lot of long balls”.<\/p>\n

Speaking on BBC NI’s coverage of the game in Germany, former Northern Ireland defender Stephen Craigan felt the description “was a bit disrespectful” to his old side.<\/a><\/p>\n

Last week, O’Neill said that it was not his job <\/a>to set up the team to the benefit of opposing managers.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Nagelsmann said his characterisation of Northern Ireland’s style was intended “with a lot of respect”.<\/p>\n

“I said it may not be beautiful to watch but the more important topic, the key topic I mentioned, is they do it really well. They play long balls with an idea,” he added.<\/p>\n

“They have a special mood in the team and I also mentioned it’s very difficult to beat this team, they don’t concede many goals and create a lot of chances also by set-pieces by doing this way. <\/p>\n

“If anybody felt it was disrespectful, I will say sorry. I did not mean it as disrespectful, it was with a lot of respect for the team and they way they play.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany manager Julian Nagelsmann says Northern Ireland have a “special way” of playing and he did not mean…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-196089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196089","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=196089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}