{"id":680,"date":"2025-09-05T11:32:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T11:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/680\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T11:32:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T11:32:16","slug":"nathan-collins-says-ireland-will-turn-pressure-into-good-energy-in-world-cup-crunch-against-hungary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/680\/","title":{"rendered":"Nathan Collins says Ireland will turn pressure \u2018into good energy\u2019 in World Cup crunch against Hungary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Heimir Hallgrimsson and Nathan Collins\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Sports3229222.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)\">Heimir Hallgrimsson and Nathan Collins<\/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)\">Nathan Collins says his Ireland team will use the weight of expectation as motivation in their bid to reach a first World Cup in 24 years ahead of tomorrow\u2019s opening qualifier against Hungary.<\/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)\">Heimir Hallgrimsson\u2019s side kick off their qualifying tilt with a sold-out Lansdowne Road clash against Hungary, their first step on the road to North America. Collins insists his side won\u2019t be burdened by the pressure of ending the nation\u2019s long wait for a World Cup finals and rather use it as fuel across their 10-week qualifying sprint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heimir Hallgrimsson and Nathan Collins Nathan Collins says his Ireland team will use the weight of expectation as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1113,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-fai","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","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=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}