{"id":290965,"date":"2025-11-14T10:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T10:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/290965\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T10:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T10:52:11","slug":"ronaldos-first-straight-red-haaland-helps-norway-saka-inspires-england-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/290965\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronaldo’s first straight red; Haaland helps Norway; Saka inspires England – reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republic of Ireland beat Portugal as Ronaldo sees redpublished at 10:50 GMT<\/p>\n

10:50 GMT<\/p>\n

Republic of Ireland 2-0 Portugal<\/p>\n

\"\"Matt Gault
BBC Sport NI senior journalist at Aviva Stadium<\/p>\n

\"RonaldoImage source, Getty Images<\/p>\n

Cristiano Ronaldo was sent off for the first time in international football as Portugal missed the chance to secure World Cup qualification with a surprise 2-0 defeat by the Republic of Ireland at Aviva Stadium.<\/p>\n

After Troy Parrott’s first-half double for the home side, Ronaldo was initially shown a yellow card for swinging his elbow into Irish defender Dara O’Shea’s back on the hour mark.<\/p>\n

However, the Portugal captain’s card was upgraded after the video assistant referee (VAR) advised referee Glenn Nyberg to review the incident on the pitchside monitor.<\/p>\n

An ignominious end to the five-time Ballon d’Or’s night, it was Ronaldo’s first red for Portugal in his 226th appearance.<\/p>\n

Victory would have sealed Portugal’s place at next year’s finals with a game to spare, but Parrott’s brace was enough to deny Roberto Martinez’s side and keep alive the Republic of Ireland’s qualifying hopes.<\/p>\n

While Portugal are still in pole position to top the group, they will be without Ronaldo for Sunday’s home match against Armenia (14:00 GMT), with the length of his suspension to be decided by a disciplinary committee.<\/p>\n

The Republic of Ireland, meanwhile, would secure a play-off spot with victory over Hungary in Budapest on Sunday (14:00).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Republic of Ireland beat Portugal as Ronaldo sees redpublished at 10:50 GMT 10:50 GMT Republic of Ireland 2-0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-290965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}