{"id":115419,"date":"2025-11-01T05:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T05:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/115419\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T05:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T05:37:11","slug":"big-match-preview-undercooked-ireland-could-be-in-for-a-tough-return-to-soldier-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/115419\/","title":{"rendered":"Big match preview: Undercooked Ireland could be in for a tough return to Soldier Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland skipper Dan Sheehan during the captain's run at Soldier Field in Chicago, USA. Photo by Ramsey Cardy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0b7aaa06-bfa3-49a2-902c-75e3593380c5.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)\">Ireland skipper Dan Sheehan during the captain&#8217;s run at Soldier Field in Chicago, USA. Photo by Ramsey Cardy\/Sportsfile<\/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)\">No matter what way you view tonight\u2019s opening November clash at Soldier Field, it keeps coming down to minutes and game rhythm.<\/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)\">We live in an era where the best international teams are evenly matched and, while France and South Africa appear to be ahead of the curve with 2027 in mind, neither is unbeatable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland skipper Dan Sheehan during the captain&#8217;s run at Soldier Field in Chicago, USA. Photo by Ramsey Cardy\/Sportsfile&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25747,61,60,43,16766],"class_list":["post-115419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-andy-farrell","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-ruaidhri-oconnor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115419","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=115419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}