{"id":908171,"date":"2026-09-24T18:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T18:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/908171\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T18:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T18:36:11","slug":"uefa-nations-league-live-kosovo-vs-republic-of-ireland-live-text-commentary-score-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/908171\/","title":{"rendered":"UEFA Nations League LIVE: Kosovo vs Republic of Ireland – live text commentary & score updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Team news – Abankwah makes first competitive startpublished at 19:14 BST<\/p>\n

19:14 BST<\/p>\n

Kosovo v Republic of Ireland (19:45 BST)<\/p>\n

\"\"Republic of Ireland<\/p>\n

It is a much-changed Republic of Ireland side from their 1-1 friendly draw against Canada in June.<\/p>\n

Heimir Hallgrimsson hands a first competitive start to Udinese’s James Abankwah while Dara O’Shea captains the side in the absence of Nathan Collins.<\/p>\n

John Egan earns a first Irish start in three years after his impressive start to the season with Hull City.<\/p>\n

Jake O’Brien, Chiedozie Ogbene and in-form Troy Parrott all retain their places.<\/p>\n

With Amir Rrahmanhi retiring from international football, experienced Vedat Muriqi will captain Kosovo, with Bayern Munich teenager Erblin Osmani ready for a debut off the bench.<\/p>\n

Kosovo: Muric, Dellova, I Krasniqi, Hajdari, Gallapeni, Vojvoda, Hodza, Zhegrova, Avdullahu, Zabergja, Muriqi (c).<\/p>\n

Subs: Bekaj, Saipi, Raci, Avdyli, Osmani, Rashica, Matoshi, Rhrahmani, Asllani, Krasniqi, Kacuri, Jashari.<\/p>\n

Republic of Ireland: Kelleher, Scales, Abankwah, O’Shea (c), Egan, O’Brien, Molumby, Knight, Azaz, Ogbene, Parrott.<\/p>\n

Subs: Bazunu, O’Leary, Cannon, Idah, Kitching, Bagan, Coventry, Moylan, Manning, Elding, Vata, Phillips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team news – Abankwah makes first competitive startpublished at 19:14 BST 19:14 BST Kosovo v Republic of Ireland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":908172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-908171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/908172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}