Indeed, the visitors barely emerged from the first half unscathed. Jayson Molumby produced a superb goalline clearance to deny Muriqi before the Fenerbahce frontmen drew a flying save from Caoimhin Kelleher.<\/p>\n
There was nothing Kelleher could do to stop Muriqi in the closing stages, however, as he headed home to spark joyous celebrations at Fadil Vokrri Stadium.<\/p>\n
In contrast, the Republic of Ireland offered little going forward with Troy Parrott, whose goals powered Hallgrimsson’s side to the World Cup play-offs, a peripheral figure outside of his back-post header early in the second half which was easily saved.<\/p>\n
That was after Ogbene – who scored the equaliser in a friendly draw with World Cup co-hosts Canada in June – spurned a great chance in the opening half. <\/p>\n
Left to reflect on another Nations League defeat, the Republic of Ireland now switch focus to Sunday’s game with Israel in Hungary (19:45 BST), the preparations for which include a squad meeting on Friday to discuss how they will approach the contentious fixture.<\/p>\n
“I couldn’t say now, it’s difficult to measure that one,” Hallgrimsson said when asked if the intense focus on the Israel games had contributed to a poor performance in Pristina. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indeed, the visitors barely emerged from the first half unscathed. Jayson Molumby produced a superb goalline clearance to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-859419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859419","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=859419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}