{"id":80860,"date":"2025-10-14T22:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T22:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/80860\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T22:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T22:45:08","slug":"heimir-hallgrimsson-says-ireland-can-qualify-for-world-cup-we-showed-to-ourselves-we-can-play-against-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/80860\/","title":{"rendered":"Heimir Hallgrimsson says Ireland can qualify for World Cup: \u2018We showed to ourselves we can play against Portugal\u2019"},"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\">Confident Irish boss convinced World Cup chance still on despite laboured struggle to see off a ten-man Armenia ranked 103rd in rankings\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson, left, and Seamus Coleman after their side's victory\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Sports3260693.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, left, and Seamus Coleman after their side&#8217;s victory<\/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)\">Heimir Hallgrimsson remains convinced that Ireland can somehow still negotiate a passage towards the next World Cup despite another evening which seemed to indicate such optimism remains hopelessly mis-placed.<\/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)\">While his side laboured to a thoroughly unconvincing win against 103rd ranked Armenia \u2013 who were reduced to ten men in the 51st minute after their captain lost his head by throwing it at Finn Azaz \u2013 Hungary produced a remarkable late salvo to nick a 2-2 draw in Lisbon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Confident Irish boss convinced World Cup chance still on despite laboured struggle to see off a ten-man Armenia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-80860","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\/80860","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=80860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}