{"id":2650,"date":"2025-12-01T19:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T19:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=2650"},"modified":"2025-12-01T19:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T19:24:07","slug":"celtic-martin-oneill-confirms-wilfried-nancy-will-be-appointed-manager-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=2650","title":{"rendered":"Celtic: Martin O’Neill confirms Wilfried Nancy will be appointed manager this week"},"content":{"rendered":"


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If Celtic beat Dundee and Hearts see off Kilmarnock on Wednesday, Nancy could take his new club top of the Premiership with a win in his first match in charge.<\/p>\n

“It’s a nice one for him [against Hearts], a nice introduction,” O’Neill said. “It will be a difficult game of course and naturally I wish him well. At least he’s getting a side with a bit of confidence.”<\/p>\n

That confidence stems from O’Neill’s success on the field in the past five weeks, when he has lost only once – 3-1 at Midtjylland in the Europa League.<\/p>\n

However, the former Republic of Ireland manager and his players were then able to bounce back and claim their first away win in Europe since 2021 as they beat Feyenoord 3-1 last week.<\/p>\n

Celtic are 21st in the 36-team table with three matches left to play, against Roma, Bologna and Utrecht.<\/p>\n

“We lost to Midtjylland,” O’Neill said. “That was a tough game – a couple of weeks earlier they mauled Nottingham Forest, so that was difficult. To go to Feyenoord and win away from home was terrific. <\/p>\n

“We’ve given ourselves a chance, there are three games left to try to qualify, but that [Feyenoord game] was a restoration of confidence.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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If Celtic beat Dundee and Hearts see off Kilmarnock on Wednesday, Nancy could take his new club top of the Premiership with a win in his first match in charge. “It’s a nice one for him [against Hearts], a nice introduction,” O’Neill said. “It will be a difficult game of course and naturally I wish<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}