{"id":80626,"date":"2025-10-14T20:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T20:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/80626\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T20:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T20:22:09","slug":"ireland-v-armenia-evan-ferguson-puts-ireland-ahead-in-crucial-world-cup-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/80626\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland v Armenia: Evan Ferguson puts Ireland ahead in crucial World Cup qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Half-time debriefWell, there&#8217;s not much to say really. In such a must-win game, that was a dreadful first half by Ireland who have yet to have a shot on target. Armenia dominated the ball for long periods, and should have taken the lead through Eduard Spertsyan just after the half-hour mark. Ireland are sitting so deep, inviting the pressure on and when they do get the ball back, can&#8217;t play long because there are no bodies to target. A huge response is needed for the second half, because Ireland are 45 minutes away from their World Cup dreams going up in smoke.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Half-time debriefWell, there&#8217;s not much to say really. In such a must-win game, that was a dreadful first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,898,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-80626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-latest-news-ticker","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80626","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=80626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}