The Republic of Ireland recorded a routine 4-0 victory in the second leg of their 2027 Women’s World Cup play-off semi-final against Kazakhstan at Pairc Ui Chaoimh as they rubber-stamped their place in the play-off final against Poland.<\/p>\n
Already leading 8-0 from the first leg in Astana, Jessie Stapleton made the breakthrough five minutes before the break in Cork.<\/p>\n
Three more goals followed in the second half, with captain Katie McCabe and Lucy Quinn firing home fine strikes and Cork’s own Denise O’Sullivan scoring a fourth.<\/p>\n
They will now face Poland, who they beat twice in their qualifying group, in the final over two legs after they saw off Belgium on penalties.<\/p>\n
Republic of Ireland will have home advantage for the second leg, which will be played at the Aviva Stadium on Saturday, 5 December, as they look to book their place in back-to-back World Cups.<\/p>\n
The Irish went close to opening the scoring on the night on seven minutes when Abbie Larkin’s deft effort from a tight angle was hooked off the line by Bibigul Nurusheva.<\/p>\n
McCabe and Stapleton then blasted over before Larkin had a low shot saved by Angelina Portnova, who also thwarted Emily Murphy.<\/p>\n
The deadlock was eventually broken on 40 minutes as Stapleton drifted into the box to head home from Anna Patten’s inviting cross.<\/p>\n
Shanade Hopcroft then hit the base of the post with a header before McCabe drilled home a second just three minutes into the second half.<\/p>\n
Substitute Marissa Sheva rattled the woodwork before Quinn curled home a third into the far corner on 70 minutes and O’Sullivan rounded off the scoring with the fourth from close range.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Republic of Ireland recorded a routine 4-0 victory in the second leg of their 2027 Women’s World…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":927110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-927109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/927110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}