{"id":117706,"date":"2025-11-02T13:30:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T13:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/117706\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T13:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T13:30:13","slug":"ireland-vs-new-zealand-why-tired-finish-in-chicago-loss-to-new-zealand-should-spark-real-cause-for-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/117706\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland vs New Zealand: Why tired finish in Chicago loss to New Zealand should spark real cause for concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Craig Casey of Ireland shows his disappointment after the defeat to New Zealand at Soldier Field in Chicago, USA. Photo by Ramsey Cardy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Sports3275580.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)\">Craig Casey of Ireland shows his disappointment after the defeat to New Zealand 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)\">All rather flat, really; the second visit for these teams to Chicago never reaching the heights of nine years ago in what was a thoroughly scrappy encounter from which the All Blacks merely picked off their weary-looking opponents.<\/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)\">That the clash remained in the balance until the hour mark was more of a reflection on two teams not functioning at the level they ought to, with one just having that greater ability to finish the last 20 minutes with some accuracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Craig Casey of Ireland shows his disappointment after the defeat to New Zealand at Soldier Field in Chicago,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25747,61,19086,60,70587,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-117706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-andy-farrell","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-international-rugby","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-michael-sadlier","13":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117706","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=117706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}