{"id":12590,"date":"2025-03-31T14:24:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T14:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/man-citys-nico-oreilly-who-is-he-what-position-does-he-play\/"},"modified":"2025-03-31T14:24:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T14:24:29","slug":"man-citys-nico-oreilly-who-is-he-what-position-does-he-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/man-citys-nico-oreilly-who-is-he-what-position-does-he-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City’s Nico O’Reilly: Who is he? What position does he play?"},"content":{"rendered":"


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O’Reilly joined City as an eight-year-old, having also been scouted by Manchester United, Liverpool and Everton.<\/p>\n

He signed his first professional contract in July 2022, alongside 10 other players, including Rico Lewis.<\/p>\n

In 2022-23 O’Reilly made headlines with two remarkable goals in the Under-18 Premier League – a stoppage-time scorpion kick winner against Middlesbrough and 40-yard strike against Manchester United – and ended the season as an unused sub for the first team against Brighton.<\/p>\n

Last season his development was hindered by injury but he still scored from near the halfway line for City’s under-23 team against Nottingham Forest.<\/p>\n

In the summer he impressed Guardiola on City’s pre-season tour of the United States – and started the Community Shield win over Manchester United.<\/p>\n

O’Reilly has played in the Premier League and Champions League from the bench this season and started in the Carabao Cup – but his headline acts have been in the FA Cup.<\/p>\n

With three goals and two assists in four games, only Exeter’s Josh Magennis has been involved in more FA Cup proper goals this season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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O’Reilly joined City as an eight-year-old, having also been scouted by Manchester United, Liverpool and Everton. He signed his first professional contract in July 2022, alongside 10 other players, including Rico Lewis. In 2022-23 O’Reilly made headlines with two remarkable goals in the Under-18 Premier League – a stoppage-time scorpion kick winner against Middlesbrough and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12592,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12590\/revisions\/12592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}