{"id":75620,"date":"2025-10-12T10:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T10:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/75620\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T10:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T10:42:08","slug":"ireland-were-a-wounded-team-portugal-boss-roberto-martinez-identifies-improvement-in-heimir-hallgrimssons-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/75620\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Ireland were a wounded team\u2019 \u2013 Portugal boss Roberto Martinez identifies improvement in Heimir Hallgrimsson&#8217;s team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Republic of Ireland head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson, right, and Portugal head coach Roberto Mart\u00ednez. Photo by Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Sports3257377.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)\">Republic of Ireland head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson, right, and Portugal head coach Roberto Mart\u00ednez. Photo by Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile<\/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)\">Roberto Martinez believes that his Portugal side deserved their win at home to Ireland despite needing a late, late show from Ruben Neves to secure the points that leaves Portugal in position to seal World Cup qualification on Tuesday.<\/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)\">But the former Everton boss also had words of praise for Ireland who, he claimed, were a vastly improved side from the team that took one point from a possible six in the September window.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Republic of Ireland head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson, right, and Portugal head coach Roberto Mart\u00ednez. Photo by Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-75620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75620","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=75620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}