Here is Gavin Cummiskey\u2019s match preview:<\/p>\n
\u201cTime is against the Republic of Ireland. Thirty-two days is not enough space to recover from the\u00a0humiliating defeat to Armenia<\/a>\u00a0and the unravelling of Heimir Hallgr\u00edmsson\u2019s promise to produce a side capable of qualifying for the 2026 World Cup.<\/p>\n \u201cPortugal in Lisbon, in the first home game since the tragic passing of\u00a0Diogo Jota<\/a>, comes too soon for an Ireland group that had their confidence shattered by losing to a country ranked 105th in the world.”<\/p>\n [\u00a0Portugal in Lisbon is a daunting task that comes too soon after humiliating Armenia lossOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n Hello and welcome to live coverage of Ireland<\/a>\u2019s game away to Portugal in Group F of Uefa qualifying for the 2022 World Cup<\/a> in North America. It\u2019s been a dispiriting start for Heimir Hallgr\u00edmsson\u2019s men after defeat to Armenia in their previous game. Realistically tonight is a shot to nothing against one of the best teams in world football, with a midfield and bench midfield with many times the quality of Ireland\u2019s. A surprise result would make up a long way for the disappointing start, but it may have to be a smash and grab. At least Troy Parrott and Evan Ferguson have overcome recent injury concerns. Here is the Ireland squad.<\/p>\n Goalkeepers: Caoimh\u00edn Kelleher (Brentford), Gavin Bazunu (Southampton), Mark Travers (Everton).<\/p>\n Defenders: S\u00e9amus Coleman (Everton), Jake O\u2019Brien (Everton), Nathan Collins (Brentford), Dara O\u2019Shea (Ipswich Town), Liam Scales (Celtic), John Egan (HullCity), Ryan Manning (Southampton), Will Ferry (Dundee United).<\/p>\n Midfielders: Josh Cullen (Burnley), Will Smallbone (Millwall), Jack Taylor (IpswichTown), Jayson Molumby (West Bromwich Albion), Finn Azaz (Southampton).<\/p>\n Attackers: Evan Ferguson (AS Roma), Troy Parrott (AZ Alkmaar), Adam Idah (Swansea City), Mikey Johnston (West Bromwich Albion), Chiedozie Ogbene (Sheffield United), Festy Ebosele (Istanbul Ba\u015fak\u015fehir), Kasey McAteer (Ipswich Town).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here is Gavin Cummiskey\u2019s match preview: \u201cTime is against the Republic of Ireland. Thirty-two days is not enough…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15561,61,60,43,2888,1842,4018],"class_list":["post-74163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cristiano-ronaldo","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-portugal","tag-republic-of-ireland-mnt","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74163","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=74163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}