{"id":159303,"date":"2025-11-25T19:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T19:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/159303\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T19:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T19:07:10","slug":"world-cup-pots-revealed-big-guns-kept-apart-as-irelands-path-becomes-clearer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/159303\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup pots revealed: Big guns kept apart as Ireland\u2019s path becomes clearer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland will be in Port 4 if they qualify for the World Cup\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/502e1fe0-ea95-489a-8af9-886b2e56d46e.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)\">Ireland will be in Port 4 if they qualify for the World Cup<\/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)\">The potential opponents for the Republic of Ireland at the World Cup finals have become clearer after FIFA today unveiled the procedure for the draw next week.<\/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)\">And with confirmation that the six nations who come through the play-off process, with Ireland and Northern Ireland both hoping to secure one of the four slots open for European sides, there is scope for a nightmare draw against Brazil or Argentina (pot 1), Croatia or Uruguay (pot 2) and Egypt or Algeria (pot 3) or else a more palatable group including a Canada or a stuttering Portugal (pot 1), Austria or Australia (pot 2) and Saudi Arabia or debutants Uzbekistan (pot 3).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland will be in Port 4 if they qualify for the World Cup The potential opponents for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-159303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159303","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=159303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}