{"id":238116,"date":"2026-01-10T16:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T16:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/238116\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T16:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T16:53:11","slug":"evan-ferguson-opens-up-on-confidence-struggles-i-sort-of-lost-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/238116\/","title":{"rendered":"Evan Ferguson opens up on confidence struggles \u2013 \u2018I sort of lost myself\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Evan Ferguson\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/LY-LEC-ROM (9).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)\">Evan Ferguson<\/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)\">Evan Ferguson admits he \u201csort of lost\u201d himself before he left Brighton for a loan spell at Roma as injury troubles dented his confidence, but admits he\u2019s now \u201cin a good place\u201d and feels settled in the Italian capital.<\/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 Meathman is halfway through his season-long loan at the Serie A club, and after a slow start to the campaign and some mixed messages from boss Gian Piero Gasperini, he has found form of late with two goals and an assist (as well as two Man of the Match awards) in his last three games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Evan Ferguson Evan Ferguson admits he \u201csort of lost\u201d himself before he left Brighton for a loan spell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7523,61,60,4876,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-238116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-evan-ferguson","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-sean-oconnor","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238116","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=238116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}