article_snippet: It was the match Martin O’Neill needed to win to convince the many doubters that this qualifying campaign is not destined to end in failure.
article_snippet: Martin O’Neill will protest that the second-half display was better – the second-half display could not have been worse than their sorry first-half showing
article_snippet: But scrutiny of O’Neill and Roy Keane’s expensive tenure will intensify.
article_snippet: I think we will have to beat O’Neill and Roy Keane.
article_snippet: O’Neill admitted before the game that defeat would have ended O’Neill hopes of finishing in the top two places.
article_snippet: The goal may have stolen a point, but O’Neill and Glenn Whelan team still have a point to prove.