The loss within the penultimate fixture within the marketing campaign does nonetheless harm their hopes of creating it to North America, nonetheless, as they’ll enter these play-offs within the lowest group of seeds.
Slovakia initially thought that they had taken the lead within the 56th minute when Lukas Haraslin’s free-kick flew previous Bailey Peacock-Farrell, but it surely was adjudged that Milan Skriniar had obstructed the view of the Northern Eire goalkeeper.
Simply eight minutes later, that they had one other strike disallowed by VAR after David Strelec was penalised for dealing with the ball when ending from one other Haraslin set-piece.
O’Neill felt that the selections to rule out the earlier efforts performed into permitting the late winner.
“It was a transparent push on Daniel Ballard on the nook, two palms in his again,” stated O’Neill.
“The opposite objectives that had been disallowed ought to have been disallowed. The primary one was offside, the strains present that clearly, and the second was handball.
“You must have a look at every incident by itself benefit, you’ll be able to’t go cumulative and referee the final incident in another way to the way you refereed the opposite two incidents.”
Following the profitable aim, Ballard was despatched off for a second yellow card offence and midfielder George Saville was booked with each gamers now dominated out of Monday night time’s sport with Luxembourg via suspension.
On Ballard’s second yellow, O’Neill stated: “The Slovakian dug-out that brought on that as a lot as something.”
“The [second] yellow card for Daniel is a joke,” he continued.
“If you happen to have a look at it again, it’s poor.”
“He’s a high referee, he has refereed the Champions League last, he ought to have disallowed the aim.”
The victory, which retains alive Slovakia’s hopes of qualifying robotically for subsequent summer season’s match, sparked big celebrations from the hosts with O’Neill describing their response as “disappointing”.
“Every part was on the road for Slovakia. You can inform that by the way in which their technical space behaved in the direction of the top of the sport, which was disappointing.
“Disappointing for his or her coach to not shake my hand.
“In the end, we congratulate Slovakia as a result of they’ll go to Germany and attempt to win the group.”
