{"id":116397,"date":"2025-10-11T23:40:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T23:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/116397\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T23:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T23:40:11","slug":"ireland-player-ratings-caoimhin-kelleher-and-seamus-coleman-shine-but-performance-not-enough-to-avoid-portugal-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/116397\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland player ratings: Caoimh\u00edn Kelleher and S\u00e9amus Coleman shine but performance not enough to avoid Portugal defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland's S\u00e9amus Coleman after the FIFA World Cup 2026 qualifying defeat to Portugal Ireland at Est\u00e1dio Jos\u00e9 Alvalade in Lisbon. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/e53b556a-f844-4372-85be-cb6d20fb6abd.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 S\u00e9amus Coleman after the FIFA World Cup 2026 qualifying defeat to Portugal Ireland at Est\u00e1dio Jos\u00e9 Alvalade in Lisbon. 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)\">An accomplished display. The Brentford \u2019keeper made superb stops to deny Goncalo Inacio and Ruben Neves but his pivotal stop for Cristiano Ronaldo\u2019s penalty was overshadowed by Neves\u2019 late winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland&#8217;s S\u00e9amus Coleman after the FIFA World Cup 2026 qualifying defeat to Portugal Ireland at Est\u00e1dio Jos\u00e9 Alvalade&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,2723,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-116397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-sean-oconnor","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}