{"id":319573,"date":"2026-02-27T05:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T05:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/319573\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T05:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T05:48:12","slug":"i-dont-think-anyone-gave-us-a-chance-robbie-keane-leads-ferencvaros-into-europa-league-last-16-after-dramatic-turnaround","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/319573\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I don&#8217;t think anyone gave us a chance\u2019 \u2013 Robbie Keane leads Ferencvaros into Europa League last-16 after dramatic turnaround"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ferencvaros coach Robbie Keane. Photo: Reuters\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/A-FTC-LUD (33).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)\">Ferencvaros coach Robbie Keane. Photo: Reuters<\/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)\">Robbie Keane says he was calm under pressure after he guided Hungarian side Ferencvaros to the next stage of the Europa League, the most progress the club have made in Europe in 50 years.<\/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)\">Ferencvaros were 2-1 down after the away leg of their tie with Bulgarian outfit Ludogorets but two goals in a 15-minute spell in the first half at home had them ahead on aggregate and they held on to win 2-0 on the night, 3-2 on aggregate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ferencvaros coach Robbie Keane. Photo: Reuters Robbie Keane says he was calm under pressure after he guided Hungarian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2049,61,60,47632,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-319573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-aidan-fitzmaurice","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-robbie-keane","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319573","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=319573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}