{"id":305650,"date":"2026-02-19T06:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T06:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/305650\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T06:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T06:55:13","slug":"evan-ferguson-suffers-another-injury-blow-as-irelands-world-cup-playoff-approaches-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/305650\/","title":{"rendered":"Evan Ferguson suffers another injury blow as Ireland\u2019s World Cup playoff approaches \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The latest injury update on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/evan-ferguson\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/evan-ferguson\/\">Evan Ferguson<\/a> has the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/republic-of-ireland-mnt\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/republic-of-ireland-mnt\/\">Republic of Ireland<\/a> striker ruled out of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/as-roma\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/as-roma\/\">Roma<\/a>\u2019s Serie A game against Cremonese on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ferguson has missed six matches since mid-January due to sprain to his left ankle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He has suffered four separate set backs, to both ankles, since arriving on a season-long loan from Brighton last July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The 21-year-old also missed most of last season following ankle surgery, having previously returned from a serious knee issue. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ireland manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/heimir-hallgrimsson\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/heimir-hallgrimsson\/\">Heimir Hallgr\u00edmsson<\/a> had expected Ferguson to return to action this weekend, enhancing his chances of featuring in the World Cup playoff against the Czech Republic next month. The Meath man missed the qualifiers against Portugal and Hungary last November having scored three goals in Ireland\u2019s four previous group games. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ferguson has netted five times for Roma in 22 appearances this season, but a recovery timeline is currently unknown following his latest injury relapse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cWe\u2019re working to get him back on his feet, but every time he changes direction, the ankle seems to sprain,\u201d said Roma manager Gian Piero Gasperini earlier this month. \u201cIt\u2019s one [ankle] or the other, but the one he had an operation on is the most problematic, which hasn\u2019t completely solved the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest injury update on Evan Ferguson has the Republic of Ireland striker ruled out of Roma\u2019s Serie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[93807,7523,61,60,1842,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-305650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-as-roma","9":"tag-evan-ferguson","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-republic-of-ireland-mnt","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305650","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=305650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}