{"id":926580,"date":"2026-10-09T13:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T13:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/926580\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T13:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T13:42:10","slug":"womens-world-cup-play-offs-republic-of-ireland-put-eight-past-kazakhstan-in-first-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/926580\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s World Cup play-offs: Republic of Ireland put eight past Kazakhstan in first leg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Republic of Ireland all but secured their place in the Women&#8217;s World Cup play-off final with a dominant victory over Kazakhstan in Friday&#8217;s first leg in Astana. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kyra Carusa (2), Chloe Mustaki, Emily Murphy and Abbie Larkin all scored to put Carla Ward&#8217;s side in control before the break. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hosts were reduced to 10 players when captain Yulia Myasnikova was sent off in the 33rd minute following a video assistant referee (VAR) check for her foul on Irish forward Larkin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jamie Finn added a sixth and Shanade Hopcroft marked her debut with a goal, before Jessie Stapleton completed the rout in the 90th minute. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The second leg takes place at Pairc Ui Chaoimh in Cork on Tuesday (19:30 BST), with the Republic of Ireland well on course to face Belgium or Poland in the play-off final as they chase a second successive appearance at the tournament. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In the second half there were a few spaces we could have exploited a little bit more, but that&#8217;s me being picky,&#8221; Ward told RTE. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The girls deserve an awful lot of credit because we spoke all week about no complacency, making sure we do the job professionally and having the same approach as if we were playing some of the best in the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They did that tonight and I thought they were outstanding.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Republic of Ireland all but secured their place in the Women&#8217;s World Cup play-off final with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":926581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-926580","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\/926580","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=926580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/926581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}