{"id":80208,"date":"2025-10-14T16:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T16:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/80208\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T16:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T16:08:08","slug":"world-cup-qualifier-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/80208\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup qualifier \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph free b-it-article-body__text--left\">Hello and welcome to live coverage of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/republic-of-ireland-mnt\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/republic-of-ireland-mnt\/\">Republic of Ireland<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/world-cup\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/world-cup\/\">World Cup<\/a> Group F qualifier against Armenia, from the Aviva Stadium. Kick-off is at 7.45pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free b-it-article-body__text--left\">This is a must-win game for Ireland if they have any designs on staying in with a shout of qualification for the World Cup in North America last summer. Armenia\u2019s 2-1 win over Ireland in Yerevan though showed this is not an easy task, but Irish eyes will be set on revenge. Josh Cullen misses the game through suspension.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free b-it-article-body__text--left\">Here is the squad available for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/heimir-hallgrimsson\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/heimir-hallgrimsson\/\">Heimir Hallgr\u00edmsson<\/a> tonight. The starting team will follow when it is available, <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Republic of Ireland squad \u2013 Portugal &amp; Armenia<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free b-it-article-body__text--left\">Goalkeepers: Caoimh\u00edn Kelleher (Brentford), Gavin Bazunu (Southampton), Mark Travers (Everton).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free b-it-article-body__text--left\">Defenders: S\u00e9amus Coleman (Everton), Jake O\u2019Brien (Everton), Nathan Collins (Brentford), Dara O\u2019Shea (Ipswich Town), Jimmy Dunne (QPR), John Egan (Hull City), Ryan Manning (Southampton), Will Ferry (Dundee United).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free b-it-article-body__text--left\">Midfielders: Conor Coventry (Charlton Athletic), Will Smallbone (Millwall), Jack Taylor (Ipswich Town), Jayson Molumby (West Bromwich Albion), Finn Azaz (Southampton).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free b-it-article-body__text--left\">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":"Hello and welcome to live coverage of the Republic of Ireland\u2019s World Cup Group F qualifier against Armenia,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4700,61,60,43,1842,4018],"class_list":["post-80208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-heimir-hallgrimsson","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-republic-of-ireland-mnt","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80208","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=80208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}