{"id":80984,"date":"2025-10-14T23:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T23:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/80984\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T23:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T23:57:09","slug":"when-theyre-with-us-you-really-feel-you-cant-be-beaten-nathan-collins-plea-to-ireland-fans-for-portugal-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/80984\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018When they\u2019re with us, you really feel you can\u2019t be beaten\u2019 \u2013 Nathan Collins\u2019 plea to Ireland fans for Portugal visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland's Nathan Collins tussles with Styopa Mkrtchyan of Armenia during the World Cup qualifier. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Sports3260647.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 Nathan Collins tussles with Styopa Mkrtchyan of Armenia during the World Cup qualifier. 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)\">Ireland captain Nathan Collins has called on supporters to make Lansdowne Road a cauldron for the visit of Portugal next month, with the Boys in Green needing at least a draw in the penultimate World Cup qualifier to keep their slim hopes alive.<\/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 Halgrimsson\u2019s men defeated 10-man Armenia 1-0 to pick up their first win of the campaign, but Hungary\u2019s injury-time leveller in Portugal has made Ireland\u2019s task next month more difficult as they look to defy the odds and pip Hungary to second-place and a play-off for next summer\u2019s finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland&#8217;s Nathan Collins tussles with Styopa Mkrtchyan of Armenia during the World Cup qualifier. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile Ireland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4700,61,60,43,4876],"class_list":["post-80984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-heimir-hallgrimsson","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-sean-oconnor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80984","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=80984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}