{"id":361095,"date":"2026-03-23T16:15:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T16:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/361095\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T16:15:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T16:15:30","slug":"czechia-v-ireland-jury-the-danger-of-optimism-midfield-decisions-and-getting-the-best-from-troy-parrott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/361095\/","title":{"rendered":"Czechia v Ireland jury: The danger of optimism, midfield decisions and getting the best from Troy Parrott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Our writers answer the key questions ahead of this week&#8217;s crucial World Cup play-off\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jack Taylor, left, and Bosun Lawal are both options as Heimir Hallgrimsson looks to find the perfect midfield combination this week. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/3229636.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)\">Jack Taylor, left, and Bosun Lawal are both options as Heimir Hallgrimsson looks to find the perfect midfield combination this week. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p>Daniel McDonnell, Aidan Fitzmaurice, David Kelly, Se\u00e1n O&#8217;Connor, Kevin Palmer, Tony Considine<\/p>\n<p>Today at 06:30<\/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)\">1 \u2013 Are you optimistic about Ireland\u2019s prospects?<\/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)\">Daniel McDonnell: The biggest question is the trickiest one to answer. It feels like any scepticism is borne out of the sheer scale of what Heimir Hallgrimsson\u2019s side are trying to achieve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our writers answer the key questions ahead of this week&#8217;s crucial World Cup play-off Jack Taylor, left, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112,102024],"class_list":["post-361095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports","tag-world-cup-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361095","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=361095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}