{"id":138087,"date":"2025-11-13T19:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T19:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/138087\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T19:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T19:12:08","slug":"ireland-v-portugal-boys-in-greens-world-cup-hopes-in-last-chance-saloon-as-ronaldo-comes-to-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/138087\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland v Portugal: Boys in Green\u2019s World Cup hopes in last chance saloon as Ronaldo comes to town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s how Portugal line up under Roberto Martinez: <\/p>\n<p>We gave you the Ireland team earlier, now a look at the Portugal XI. They make three changes to the team that beat Ireland 1-0 in Lisbon, starts for Joao Felix, Joao Neves and Joao Cancelo, Portugal accounting for a suspension for Bruno Fernandes.<\/p>\n<p>In a sign of how petrodollars now fund the European game, two of the Portugal XI play for the Qatar-backed PSG while four (Ronaldo, Joao Felix, Joao Cancelo and Ruben Neves) play in the Saudi League.<\/p>\n<p>Goncalo Inacio (Sporting) and keeper Diogo Costa (Porto) are the only home-based players in their side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s how Portugal line up under Roberto Martinez: We gave you the Ireland team earlier, now a look&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1113,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-138087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-fai","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138087","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=138087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}