{"id":485202,"date":"2026-06-05T22:15:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T22:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/485202\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T22:15:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T22:15:39","slug":"ireland-guaranteed-third-spot-as-france-dispatch-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/485202\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland guaranteed third spot as France dispatch Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republic of Ireland are guaranteed at least third spot in their qualifying group and a seeded playoff spot after table toppers France beat Poland 2-0 in Gdansk.<\/p>\n

Goals from Melvine Malard and Sandy Baltimore condemned the Poles to bottom place in the group, their only point coming in their opening draw at home to Netherlands.<\/p>\n

Carla Ward’s side currently host the Dutch<\/a> in P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chaoimh, needing a victory to usurp their opponents, who won the corresponding fixture 2-1 in Utrecht in March.<\/p>\n

France, currently in top spot in the group, host Republic of Ireland in Grenoble on Tuesday, with the table toppers advancing directly to the World Cup in Brazil next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Republic of Ireland are guaranteed at least third spot in their qualifying group and a seeded playoff spot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-485202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485202","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=485202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}