{"id":485586,"date":"2026-06-06T03:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T03:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/485586\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T03:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T03:46:09","slug":"canada-draw-ireland-in-final-pre-world-cup-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/485586\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada draw Ireland in final pre-World Cup friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Les Rouges open Group B play at the World Cup against Bosnia and Herzegovina on June 12 at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/toronto-fc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto FC<\/a>&#8216;s BMO Field.<\/p>\n<p>Canada turned their heavy early possession into the opening goal in the 24th minute when a corner kick from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/los-angeles-football-club\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LAFC<\/a> midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/stephen-eustaquio\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Eust\u00e1quio<\/a> deflected in off Ireland defender Jake O&#8217;Brien.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ireland leveled on the hour mark, with Chiedozie Ogbene firing in the rebound of Troy Parrott&#8217;s saved penalty kick by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/orlando-city\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orlando City<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/maxime-crepeau\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maxime Cr\u00e9peau<\/a>. The Boys in Green were awarded the PK after a high boot by Cyle Larin in the box.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cr\u00e9peau reinforced his recently announced starting spot with a stunning save to deny a wide-open Mason Melia from point-blank range in the 83rd minute, keeping the match level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Les Rouges open Group B play at the World Cup against Bosnia and Herzegovina on June 12 at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[289,208817,61,60,208815,43,208816],"class_list":["post-485586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-canada","tag-canvsirl-06-05-2026","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-match-reaction","tag-news","tag-sendtonews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485586","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=485586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}