{"id":398476,"date":"2026-04-14T20:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T20:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/398476\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T20:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T20:01:12","slug":"ireland-survive-pitch-battle-against-poland-to-advance-world-cup-qualification-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/398476\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland survive pitch battle against Poland to advance World Cup qualification claim"},"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\">Poland 2 Ireland 3\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland captain Katie McCabe shoots to score her side's second goal during the 2027 Women\u2019s World Cup qualifier win over Poland at Polsat Plus Arena in Gdansk, Poland. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/e137e48f-89f1-443d-90fd-2829d4315786.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)\">Ireland captain Katie McCabe shoots to score her side&#8217;s second goal during the 2027 Women\u2019s World Cup qualifier win over Poland at Polsat Plus Arena in Gdansk, Poland. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile<\/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)\">Ireland\u2019s rocky road to a potential second successive World Cup surmounted a rutted Gdansk pitch and persistently rugged hosts.<\/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)\">A qualification win that should have been secured by the half-hour remained in doubt until the end, Ireland twice tossing away two-goal advantages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Poland 2 Ireland 3 Ireland captain Katie McCabe shoots to score her side&#8217;s second goal during the 2027&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8495,61,60,19002,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-398476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-david-kelly","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-katie-mccabe","12":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398476","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=398476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}