{"id":147221,"date":"2025-11-18T23:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T23:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/147221\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T23:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T23:07:09","slug":"austria-1-1-bosnia-herzegovina-austria-qualify-for-world-cup-for-first-time-since-1998","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/147221\/","title":{"rendered":"Austria 1-1 Bosnia-Herzegovina: Austria qualify for World Cup for first time since 1998"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ralf Rangnick&#8217;s Austria fought back from a goal down to draw with Bosnia-Herzegovina to qualify for the World Cup finals for the first time since 1998.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bosnia-Herzegovina needed a victory if they were to qualify themselves and they took a 12th-minute lead through Haris Tabakovic in Vienna.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Michael Gregoritsch equalised in the 77th minute when he reacted first to finish the rebound after Austria had hit the crossbar to make it 1-1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bosnia-Herzegovina were one goal away from qualifying, but instead will now have to enter the play-offs where they will need to win two single-leg ties to join Austria in next summer&#8217;s finals in Canada, Mexico and the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Austria came third in the World Cup in 1954 and fourth in 1934 but missed the past six tournaments after they went out in the group phase, failing to win a game, in 1998.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rangnick managed Manchester United for six months on an interim basis in 2021-22, before taking charge of the Austria team in May 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He guided them to Euro 2024, when they beat Poland and the Netherlands to make it into the last 16, before losing 2-1 to Turkey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In eight Group H matches, Austria won six, drew one and lost one to end on 19 points, two more than Bosnia-Herzegovina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ralf Rangnick&#8217;s Austria fought back from a goal down to draw with Bosnia-Herzegovina to qualify for the World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-147221","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\/147221","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=147221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}