{"id":603325,"date":"2026-08-24T17:40:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T17:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/603325\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T17:40:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T17:40:21","slug":"ireland-sent-to-13th-place-world-cup-playoff-after-defeat-to-usa-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/603325\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland sent to 13th-place World Cup playoff after defeat to USA \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ireland lost their third successive World Cup game in Belgium on Monday, with a 3-1 defeat against the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The loss means they will face South Africa in the 13th-place playoff on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Needing a win to top their classification pool, Ireland took the lead through Niamh Carey in the first quarter when she deflected home Aisling Utri\u2019s reverse in to the circle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">But the US fought back with goals in each of the last three quarters, Lucy Adams, Mia Schoenbeck and Abigail Tamer the providers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ireland now journey to Amstelveen in the Netherlands, co-hosting the tournament alongside Belgium, where South Africa await.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"> who are ranked four places below Ireland, <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Whatever the result, it will be Ireland\u2019s second lowest placing in seven World Cup appearances, behind only their 15th-place finish in 2002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland lost their third successive World Cup game in Belgium on Monday, with a 3-1 defeat against the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-603325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603325","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=603325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}