{"id":60196,"date":"2025-10-04T01:19:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T01:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/60196\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T01:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T01:19:11","slug":"portugal-name-25-man-squad-to-face-the-republic-of-ireland-and-hungary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/60196\/","title":{"rendered":"Portugal name 25-man squad to face the Republic of Ireland and Hungary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Portugal manager Roberto Martinez has named his 25-man squad for their home double header against the Republic of Ireland and Hungary.<\/p>\n<p>Portugal host Ireland on Saturday 11 October before they take on Hungary three days later with both matches being played at Sporting Lisbon&#8217;s Est\u00e1dio Jos\u00e9 Alvalade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Jo\u00e3o Cancelo misses out through injury but N\u00e9lson Semedo, Matheus Nunes and Rafael Le\u00e3o are back in the mix as Portugal aim to make it four wins out of four, to all but seal top spot in the group and with it automatic qualification for the 2026 World Cup in the USA, Canada and Mexico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu caption\">Portugal squad for Ireland and Hungary World Cup qualifiers<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n            Goalkeepers: Diogo Costa (FC Porto), Jos\u00e9 S\u00e1 (Wolverhampton Wanderers), Rui Silva (Sporting CP).<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n            Defenders: Diogo Dalot ( Manchester United), N\u00e9lson Semedo (Fenerbah\u00e7e), Nuno Mendes (PSG), R\u00faben Dias (Manchester City), Gon\u00e7alo In\u00e1cio (Sporting CP), Ant\u00f3nio Silva (SL Benfica), Renato Veiga (Villarreal).<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n            Midfielders: Jo\u00e3o Palhinha (Tottenham Hotspur), R\u00faben Neves (Al Hilal), Jo\u00e3o Neves (PSG), Matheus Nunes (Manchester City), Vitinha (PSG), Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United), Pedro Gon\u00e7alves (Sporting CP), Bernardo Silva (Manchester City).<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n            Forwards: Jo\u00e3o F\u00e9lix (Al Nassr), Francisco Trinc\u00e3o (Sporting CP), Francisco Concei\u00e7\u00e3o (Juventus), Pedro Neto (Chelsea FC), Rafael Le\u00e3o (AC Milan) Gon\u00e7alo Ramos (PSG), Cristiano Ronaldo (Al Nassr).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Portugal manager Roberto Martinez has named his 25-man squad for their home double header against the Republic of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1113,61,60,2539,5782,43,5783],"class_list":{"0":"post-60196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-fai","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-league-of-ireland","12":"tag-local-soccer","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-premiership"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60196","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=60196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}