{"id":132025,"date":"2025-11-10T11:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T11:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/132025\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T11:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T11:22:09","slug":"ferguson-ruled-out-for-portugal-kenny-called-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/132025\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferguson ruled out for Portugal, Kenny called up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Evan Ferguson has been ruled out of Republic of Ireland’s home fixture with Portugal, with Celtic striker Johnny Kenny called up in his absence.<\/p>\n

Ferguson, who has scored three of Ireland’s four goals in the campaign so far, had been included in Heimir Hallgrimsson’s 26-man squad named last week<\/a>, with the manager expressing his confidence that the Roma centre-forward would be fit.<\/p>\n

However, it was confirmed this morning that Ferguson would be remaining at Roma to continue his rehab in the hope of being fit for the away trip to Hungary. The 21-year old suffered an ankle injury in Roma’s 2-1 Serie A victory over Parma on 29 October.<\/p>\n

\"GLASGOW,
\nJohnny Kenny celebrates opening the scoring against Kilmarnock<\/p>\n

Celtic’s Kenny, a surprise omission from the initial squad, has been called up in his absence. The Sligo-born striker has made a strong start to life under Martin O’Neill, scoring twice in a 4-0 league win over Falkirk and heading the opener in the Cup victory over Rangers at Hampden Park. At the weekend, he scored the first goal in Celtic’s 4-0 home win over Kilmarnock.<\/p>\n

Bristol City midfielder Mark Sykes has also been ruled out with injury, Hibernian’s Jamie McGrath replacing him in the squad.<\/p>\n

McGrath last appeared for Ireland as a second half substitute in the 2-1 away win against Finland in Helsinki in October 2024.<\/p>\n

Updated Ireland squad for World Cup qualifier against Portugal<\/p>\n

Goalkeepers: Caoimhin Kelleher, Gavin Bazunu, Mark Travers<\/p>\n

Defenders: Seamus Coleman, Nathan Collins, Dara O’Shea, Jake O’Brien, Jimmy Dunne, Liam Scales, John Egan, Ryan Manning*, Kevin O’Toole<\/p>\n

Midfielders: Josh Cullen, Jayson Molumby*, Finn Azaz, Conor Coventry, Jack Taylor, Andrew Moran, Jamie McGrath<\/p>\n

Attackers: Troy Parrott, Adam Idah, Johnny Kenny, Mikey Johnston, Chiedozie Ogbene, Festy Ebosele<\/p>\n

*Suspended for the first match against Portugal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Evan Ferguson has been ruled out of Republic of Ireland’s home fixture with Portugal, with Celtic striker Johnny…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-132025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132025","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=132025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}