{"id":79160,"date":"2025-10-14T04:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T04:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/79160\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T04:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T04:40:08","slug":"ireland-v-armenia-preview-reputations-on-the-line-as-boys-in-green-face-last-chance-to-inject-life-into-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/79160\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland v Armenia preview: Reputations on the line as Boys in Green face last chance to inject life into campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson speaks to his players during a training session at the FAI National Training Centre in Abbotstown. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/b71e73ed-f224-46b0-baa7-0c18236e4d3e.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 head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson speaks to his players during a training session at the FAI National Training Centre in Abbotstown. 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)\">The longer-term legacy of Ireland\u2019s humbling in Yerevan will become clear in November but there has been one shorter-term upside.<\/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 combination of that unedifying collapse and the stirring response in Lisbon on Saturday has created the situation where Armenia at home now feels like a proper big match. An unexpected surge in ticket sales over the weekend has supported that argument.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson speaks to his players during a training session at the FAI National Training&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3264,4700,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-79160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-daniel-mcdonnell","tag-heimir-hallgrimsson","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79160","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=79160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}