{"id":367908,"date":"2026-03-27T11:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T11:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/367908\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T11:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T11:12:09","slug":"keepers-homework-done-a-presidential-visit-and-bad-taste-joke-over-sammie-szmodics-injury-how-czech-media-saw-the-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/367908\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeper\u2019s homework done, a presidential visit, and bad taste joke over Sammie Szmodics injury \u2013 how Czech media saw the drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jan Kliment of Czechia scores the winning penalty in the penalty shootout during the World Cup qualifying play-off semi-final against Ireland at Fortuna Arena in Prague, Czechia. Photo: Seb Daly\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Sports3406298.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)\">Jan Kliment of Czechia scores the winning penalty in the penalty shootout during the World Cup qualifying play-off semi-final against Ireland at Fortuna Arena in Prague, Czechia. Photo: Seb Daly\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p>Aidan Fitzmaurice in Prague<\/p>\n<p>Today at 10:08<\/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)\">Just like their supporters, the Czech media can now look forward to a do\u2011or\u2011die date at home to Denmark, while Ireland face the unwanted consolation of a friendly against North Macedonia.<\/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)\">And the mood in the Czech media today was that praise was due to coach Miroslav Koubek for the homework he had done on Ireland and how he rescued a grim\u2011looking scenario with a half\u2011time change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan Kliment of Czechia scores the winning penalty in the penalty shootout during the World Cup qualifying play-off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2049,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-367908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-aidan-fitzmaurice","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367908","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=367908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}