{"id":449151,"date":"2026-02-27T21:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T21:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/449151\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T21:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T21:35:08","slug":"martin-oneill-responds-to-danny-rohls-celtic-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/449151\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin O&#8217;Neill responds to Danny Rohl&#8217;s Celtic remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The debate follows Viljami Sinisalo\u2019s strong display in Celtic\u2019s 1-0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/topics\/europa-league\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Europa League<\/a> win away to Stuttgart, where he replaced Kasper Schmeichel after the Dane conceded two soft goals in the 4-1 first-leg defeat.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  O\u2019Neill was informed of Rohl\u2019s comments during his pre-match press conference shortly after returning to Glasgow. \u201cSo he\u2019s picking our team? Well done, old Danny, well done,\u201d O\u2019Neill said with a laugh. \u201cHe\u2019s only been here less than a year. He\u2019ll soon learn what it\u2019s like over the next four or five years.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cMaybe I should sit down and see if he wants to offer me a choice of some of his players, and I could put my oar in about what he\u2019s doing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cHonestly, I have to laugh. He\u2019s commenting on our team selection? Extraordinary. Absolutely extraordinary. He hasn\u2019t been in Glasgow long.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  On Celtic&#8217;s title credentials, O&#8217;Neill continued, &#8220;We\u2019re running out of games. We\u2019ve been trying to catch up for quite some considerable time. We\u2019re still trying to do that at the moment.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cLosing to Hibs was a setback, but it wasn\u2019t mortal. We\u2019re still there. I think we\u2019ve taken 31 from 36 points (in two spells under O\u2019Neill).\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s only meeting with Rangers this season ended in a 3-1 victory for his side, which occurred at Hampden in the Premier Sports Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The debate follows Viljami Sinisalo\u2019s strong display in Celtic\u2019s 1-0 Europa League win away to Stuttgart, where he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-449151","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\/449151","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=449151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}