{"id":138177,"date":"2025-11-13T20:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T20:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/138177\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T20:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T20:18:08","slug":"hungary-dig-out-win-in-armenia-to-hurt-irish-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/138177\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungary dig out win in Armenia to hurt Irish hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hungary had to hang tough, but they ultimately dug out a hard-fought 1-0 win against Armenia in Yerevan to dent the Republic of Ireland&#8217;s World Cup play-off hopes on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The Boys in Green were hoping Armenia could do them a favour by at least taking a point against Hungary, who host Ireland in Budapest on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Barnabas Varga&#8217;s 33rd-minute header proved enough to give the visitors a massive three points.<\/p>\n<p>That means Ireland require at least a draw against Portugal at the Aviva Stadium tonight and a win in Hungary on Sunday to earn a spot in the play-offs.<\/p>\n<p>If Ireland draw tonight, they would need a win by two clear goals in Budapest. If Heimir Hallgrimsson&#8217;s men lose, the World Cup dream is officially over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hungary had to hang tough, but they ultimately dug out a hard-fought 1-0 win against Armenia in Yerevan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-138177","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\/138177","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=138177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}