{"id":1590,"date":"2025-09-05T19:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T19:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/1590\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T19:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T19:49:08","slug":"looking-at-second-place-the-fight-is-between-us-and-ireland-hungary-boss-marco-rossi-draws-battle-line-for-irish-tie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/1590\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Looking at second place, the fight is between us and Ireland\u2019 \u2013 Hungary boss Marco Rossi draws battle line for Irish tie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Head coach Marco Rossi during a pitch walk ahead of a Hungary media conference at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Photo by Ben McShane\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bba8b1b5-98ed-4951-b1e7-7ac90b5dec36.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)\">Head coach Marco Rossi during a pitch walk ahead of a Hungary media conference at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Photo by Ben McShane\/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)\">Hungary boss Marco Rossi has admitted that the World Cup qualifying campaign, which starts for his nation in Dublin on Saturday night, is a straight fight between the Hungarians and the Republic of Ireland for second place and a playoff spot.<\/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)\">While Ireland are aiming to reach the World Cup finals for the first time since 2002, Hungary have waited four decades to reach that stage, and while confidence is relatively high in their camp after three successive appearances at the European Championship finals, Hungary also need to turn around some poor recent form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Head coach Marco Rossi during a pitch walk ahead of a Hungary media conference at the Aviva Stadium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2049,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-1590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-aidan-fitzmaurice","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590","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=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}