{"id":101294,"date":"2025-10-24T10:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T10:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/101294\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T10:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T10:53:08","slug":"roma-boss-takes-aim-at-evan-ferguson-he-is-perhaps-paying-the-price-for-his-long-inactivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/101294\/","title":{"rendered":"Roma boss takes aim at Evan Ferguson: \u2018He is perhaps paying the price for his long inactivity\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Roma's Evan Ferguson reacts against Viktoria Plzen\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages_2242524551.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Roma&#8217;s Evan Ferguson reacts against Viktoria Plzen<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Roma manager Gian Piero Gasperini has taken a swipe at his strikers, including Ireland international Evan Ferguson, over their poor return in front of goal after another slip-up by the Italian side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Roma\u2019s tough season took another downturn on Thursday night with a shock 2-1 defeat at home to Czech side Viktoria Plzen in the Europa League, a third straight home loss. Ferguson has been in and out of the starting XI as Gasperini tinkers with his team depending on the competition and came on after 75 minutes against Plzen. He still awaits his debut goal after eight appearances, though he did score for Ireland in the last two international windows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roma&#8217;s Evan Ferguson reacts against Viktoria Plzen Roma manager Gian Piero Gasperini has taken a swipe at his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,898,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-101294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}