{"id":268364,"date":"2026-01-28T13:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T13:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/268364\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T13:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T13:22:09","slug":"ferguson-left-out-of-roma-squad-for-europa-league-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/268364\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferguson left out of Roma squad for Europa League clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evan Ferguson has been left out of the AS Roma squad to face Panathinaikos for the final match of the league phase of the Europa League.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian side will finish inside the top eight if they can produce a victory in Greece after five wins so far in this campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The Republic of Ireland striker was an unused sub as Roma drew 1-1 with second-placed AC Milan at the Stadio Olimpico last Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson did <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/soccer\/2026\/0122\/1554607-sancho-earns-villa-automatic-qualifying-spot-in-europa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">feature for all 90 minutes of last week&#8217;s 2-0 win over Stuttgart<\/a> after overcoming a short-term ankle injury.<\/p>\n<p>Gian Piero Gasperini selected new signing Donyell Malen along with Pablo Dybala for the Milan fixture.<\/p>\n<p>The game itself saw Koni De Winter open the scoring for Milan in the 62nd minute but a 74th-minute penalty from Lorenzo Pellegrini ensured a share of the spoils.<\/p>\n<p>Italian media are reporting that Ferguson trained alone today due to the ankle problem resurfacing and has been left out due to the injury concern.<\/p>\n<p>Gasperini is likely to give more information of Ferguson&#8217;s injury outlook at his pre-match press conference today.<\/p>\n<p>Watch Liverpool v Qarabag in the Champions League on Wednesday from 7pm on RT\u00c92 and RT\u00c9 Player. Follow a live blog on the RT\u00c9 News App and on rte.ie\/sport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Evan Ferguson has been left out of the AS Roma squad to face Panathinaikos for the final match&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-268364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268364","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=268364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}