The loss within the penultimate fixture within the marketing campaign does nonetheless injury their hopes of constructing it to North America, nonetheless, as they may enter these play-offs within the lowest group of seeds.

Slovakia initially thought they’d taken the lead within the 56th minute when Lukas Haraslin’s free-kick flew previous Bailey Peacock-Farrell, however it was adjudged that Milan Skriniar had obstructed the view of the Northern Eire goalkeeper.

Simply eight minutes later, they’d 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 choices to rule out the earlier efforts performed into permitting the late winner.

“It was a transparent push on Daniel Ballard on the nook, two fingers in his again,” mentioned O’Neill.

“The opposite objectives that have been disallowed ought to have been disallowed. The primary one was offside, the traces present that clearly, and the second was handball.

“It’s important to have a look at every incident by itself benefit, you possibly can’t go cumulative and referee the final incident in another way to the way you refereed the opposite two incidents.”

Following the profitable purpose, Ballard was despatched off for a second yellow card offence and midfielder George Saville was booked with each gamers now dominated out of Monday evening’s sport with Luxembourg by way of suspension.

On Ballard’s second yellow, O’Neill mentioned: “The Slovakian dug-out that triggered that as a lot as something.”

“The [second] yellow card for Daniel is a joke,” he continued.

“In case you have a look at it again, it’s poor.”

“He’s a high referee, he has refereed the Champions League closing, he ought to have disallowed the purpose.”

The victory, which retains alive Slovakia’s hopes of qualifying routinely for subsequent summer time’s match, sparked large celebrations from the hosts with O’Neill describing their response as “disappointing”.

“Every little thing was on the road for Slovakia. You can inform that by the best way their technical space behaved in direction of the tip of the sport, which was disappointing.

“Disappointing for his or her coach to not shake my hand.

“Finally, we congratulate Slovakia as a result of they will go to Germany and attempt to win the group.”