{"id":398149,"date":"2026-04-14T15:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/398149\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T15:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:47:08","slug":"poland-v-ireland-world-cup-qualifier-%c2%b7-the-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/398149\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland v Ireland, World Cup qualifier \u00b7 The 42"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                30 mins ago            <\/p>\n<p>                                    4:16PM\n        <\/p>\n<p>Hello, and welcome to our liveblog.<\/p>\n<p>This evening\u2019s game is arguably Ireland\u2019s most important World Cup qualifier so far.<\/p>\n<p>Carla Ward\u2019s side suffered opening 2-1 defeats to France and the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>Poland, though, are ostensibly the most beatable rival in the group, as they are the lowest-ranked opponent \u2013\u00a0Nina Patalon\u2019s side are currently 24th, three places above the Girls in Green.<\/p>\n<p>Only the group winners will qualify automatically, and Ireland are unlikely to achieve that feat on the back of two opening losses. However, even the difference between finishing third and fourth is significant, as the former provides a conceivably easier path towards 2027 World Cup qualification in the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland will also be determined to avoid Nations League relegation to League B, and to avoid that fate, they will surely need to pick at least one victory in their next two back-to-back fixtures against the Poles \u2014 the sides meet again at the Aviva Stadium on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Kick-off for today\u2019s game is at 5pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"30 mins ago 4:16PM Hello, and welcome to our liveblog. This evening\u2019s game is arguably Ireland\u2019s most important&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,4710,4707,4708,43,2850],"class_list":{"0":"post-398149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-ireland-republic","11":"tag-liveblog","12":"tag-minute-by-minute","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-poland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398149","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=398149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}