{"id":793590,"date":"2026-10-06T09:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T09:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/793590\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T09:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T09:54:09","slug":"northern-ireland-jamie-donley-keen-to-add-goals-after-encouraging-ni-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/793590\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland: Jamie Donley keen to add goals after encouraging NI run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After a four-game window with plenty of positives for Northern Ireland, there was perhaps just one lingering concern &#8211; their ability to score goals consistently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tottenham Hotspur&#8217;s Jamie Donley started as a lone striker throughout the quartet of Nations League fixtures, even though the 21-year-old has stated he feels his more natural position is number 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite impressing with his ability to push Northern Ireland up the field, drop into space, frustrate the opposition and, as a result, win plenty of free-kicks, he failed to add to his two international goals across the window where his side won twice but were frustrated in a pair of goalless home draws.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Spearheading the attack for a young side who have already proven they are hard to break down at the other end, Donley&#8217;s failure to score despite playing 294 minutes across the four games will be cause for concern.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve enjoyed it, playing all four games,&#8221; said the player on loan at Luton Town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m obviously a little bit disappointed not to score. I think that&#8217;s my aim role as a striker, but I think Michael [O&#8217;Neill] likes me to link the ball up and help with the build-up plays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Hopefully, I can add some goals to my game.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a four-game window with plenty of positives for Northern Ireland, there was perhaps just one lingering concern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-793590","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\/793590","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=793590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}