{"id":330545,"date":"2026-03-05T16:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T16:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/330545\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T16:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T16:27:10","slug":"evan-ferguson-a-major-doubt-for-world-cup-play-off-as-he-is-sent-back-to-brighton-for-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/330545\/","title":{"rendered":"Evan Ferguson a major doubt for World Cup play-off as he is sent back to Brighton for assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Latest\u00a0|\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Evan Ferguson is a major doubt for the Cezech play-off\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/3261875.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)\">Evan Ferguson is a major doubt for the Cezech play-off<\/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)\">There is fresh concern over the fitness of Ireland striker Evan Ferguson ahead of the World Cup play-off later this month as it\u2019s been reported that he has returned to parent club Brighton for another medical assessment.<\/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)\">The Meath native has been absent from the Roma squad for their last six games, and he will definitely play no part in their trip to Genoa on Sunday. He was back at Roma\u2019s Trigoria training centre last week, having spent time with the medical staff there as they assess the seriousness of his ankle injury with a fear that he will need to undergo surgery, with Ferguson spotted using crutches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Latest\u00a0|\u00a0 Evan Ferguson is a major doubt for the Cezech play-off There is fresh concern over the fitness&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,898,112],"class_list":["post-330545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330545","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=330545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}