{"id":327453,"date":"2026-03-03T23:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T23:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/327453\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T23:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T23:30:09","slug":"ireland-v-france-world-cup-qualifier-%c2%b7-the-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/327453\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland v France, World Cup qualifier \u00b7 The 42"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                1 hr ago            <\/p>\n<p>                                    9:30PM\n        <\/p>\n<p>Ireland will be gutted not to come out of that game with anything, but can take encouragement from their performance against one of the world\u2019s best sides.<\/p>\n<p>For long spells, they frustrated France with their well-organised backline.<\/p>\n<p>While Carla Ward deserves credit for how she set the team up, so does her opposite number, Laurent Bonad\u00e9i.<\/p>\n<p>His substitutions made the difference, specifically the magnificent Man United attacker Melvine Malard, who scored twice within 10 minutes of being introduced.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts will feel aggrieved not to be awarded a penalty for what looked like a handball in the dying moments, and more drama ensued, as\u00a0Katoto brilliantly cleared O\u2019Sullivan\u2019s effort off the line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1 hr ago 9:30PM Ireland will be gutted not to come out of that game with anything, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18999,1814,42,4710,4707,4708,43,3405,40,38,41,39,151456],"class_list":["post-327453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-carla-ward","tag-france","tag-headlines","tag-ireland-republic","tag-liveblog","tag-minute-by-minute","tag-news","tag-soccer","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-world-cup-qualifier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327453","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=327453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}