{"id":238344,"date":"2026-01-10T20:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T20:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/238344\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T20:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T20:02:07","slug":"ferguson-forced-out-of-roma-match-with-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/238344\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferguson forced out of Roma match with injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republic of Ireland&#8217;s Evan Ferguson was forced off with injury just 39 minutes into Roma\u2019s Serie A game with Sassuolo.<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson appeared to pick up a back injury and was replaced by Stephan El Shaarawy with the score at 0-0 with the side eventually winning 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s another concern for Ireland manager Heimir Hallgrimsson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/soccer\/2026\/0101\/1551138-idah-facing-significant-time-on-the-sidelines\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">with Adam Idah recently ruled out for a &#8220;significant&#8221; spell<\/a> after picking up an injury in Swansea training just before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Evan Ferguson \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0023b8d6-614.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/soccer\/2025\/1231\/1550983-blow-for-ireland-as-cullen-set-for-prolonged-absence\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Cullen is also another long-term injury victim <\/a>with the midfielder suffering a knee injury while on Premier League duty with Burnley against Everton last month.<\/p>\n<p>The Republic of Ireland will play Czech Republic in the World Cup play-off semi-final in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Republic of Ireland&#8217;s Evan Ferguson was forced off with injury just 39 minutes into Roma\u2019s Serie A game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-238344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238344","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=238344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}