{"id":81598,"date":"2025-10-15T06:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/81598\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T06:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:33:10","slug":"ferguson-header-sees-ireland-to-victory-but-world-cup-qualification-remains-long-way-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/81598\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferguson header sees Ireland to victory &#8211; but World Cup qualification remains long way off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lmfm.ie\/news\/sport\/\" class=\"c-btn c-btn--small c-btn--secondary-fill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        All Sport<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/68ef3dacbdc08.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            At long last, a win for the home fans to savour &#8211; but it was harder than it should have been\n        <\/p>\n<p>Evan Ferguson&#8217;s eighth International goal saw Ireland to a 1-0 win over ten man Armenia in the 4th of their World Cup qualifier matches at Lansdowne Road on Tuesday night &#8211; a first win of the campaign<\/p>\n<p>It was a real hard slog though, and the dynamic of the game only really changed after the dismissal of the Armenian captain in the second half, following a head butting incident involving Finn Azaz.<\/p>\n<p>The visitors&#8217; goalkeeper made some outstanding saves before Ferguson&#8217;s header finally ended up going in &#8211; but the failure to score more than once when on top, failed to improve Ireland&#8217;s goal difference<\/p>\n<p>In the other group game..<br \/>Hungary&#8217;s late 2-all draw away to Portugal was far from the ideal result from an Ireland perspective &#8211; it means they&#8217;re going to have to deny Portugal victory in Dublin next month, and win away to Hungary in their final game &#8211; a highly unlikely prospect.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, England safely wrapped-up qualification for next year&#8217;s finals, following a 5-0 victory away to Latvia<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/onic-player\/id6747436925?ppid=62f5d1bc-976b-45a1-a0cb-ee4acf856ae1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/68da98f645855.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All Sport At long last, a win for the home fans to savour &#8211; but it was harder&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4263,4262,61,60,3323,4259,4258,4265,4266,4264,4260,4261,43],"class_list":["post-81598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-drogheda-radio","tag-dundalk-radio","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-job-search","tag-lm-fm","tag-lmfm","tag-lmfm-breakfast-show","tag-lmfm-late-lunch","tag-lmfm-podcast","tag-louth-radio","tag-meath-radio","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81598","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=81598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}