{"id":77034,"date":"2025-10-13T04:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T04:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/77034\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T04:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T04:50:09","slug":"frustrated-seamus-coleman-keen-to-make-a-point-to-doubters-as-ireland-cling-to-world-cup-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/77034\/","title":{"rendered":"Frustrated S\u00e9amus Coleman keen to make a point to doubters as Ireland cling to World Cup hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Experienced defender says national side must be on the front foot against Armenia\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland's S\u00e9amus Coleman in action against Portugal's Bernardo Silva in Lisbon on Saturday night. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3327563a-01f6-4d7d-9630-6e4e4c7c015b.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)\">Ireland&#8217;s S\u00e9amus Coleman in action against Portugal&#8217;s Bernardo Silva in Lisbon on Saturday night. Photo: 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)\">A \u201cfrustrated\u201d S\u00e9amus Coleman says he had a point to prove to those who doubted his ability at international level when he made his return to the fold in Saturday\u2019s World Cup qualifier in Portugal.<\/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)\">And the Everton veteran has called on his teammates to deliver the same levels of effort in tomorrow\u2019s must-win qualifier at home to Armenia, where dropped points for the Ireland would end even faint hopes of World Cup qualification via a play-off and put further scrutiny on manager Heimir Hallgrimsson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Experienced defender says national side must be on the front foot against Armenia Ireland&#8217;s S\u00e9amus Coleman in action&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2049,4700,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-77034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-aidan-fitzmaurice","tag-heimir-hallgrimsson","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77034","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=77034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}