{"id":19579,"date":"2025-08-24T04:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T04:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/19579\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T04:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T04:07:11","slug":"irish-in-action-cullen-azaz-johnston-and-kenny-on-target-as-hallgrimsson-prepares-to-name-ireland-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/19579\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish in action: Cullen, Azaz, Johnston and Kenny on target as Hallgrimsson prepares to name Ireland squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Middlesbrough's Finn Azaz celebrates after scoring his side's first goal during the Sky Bet Championship win over Norwich at Carrow Road\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/SOCCER No (31).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)\">Middlesbrough&#8217;s Finn Azaz celebrates after scoring his side&#8217;s first goal during the Sky Bet Championship win over Norwich at Carrow Road<\/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 Hallgrimsson enjoyed a good news day ahead of his squad announcement for the opening World Cup qualifiers with Josh Cullen, Finn Azaz and Mikey Johnston all on the scoresheet on Saturday.<\/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)\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.ie\/sport\/soccer\/premier-league\/josh-cullen-on-target-as-burnley-get-up-and-running-with-win-over-fellow-new-boys-sunderland\/a111241387.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cullen scored one<\/a> and created another in Burnley&#8217;s Premier League win over fellow newly promoted side Sunderland, a happy start to life back in the top flight for the Londoner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Middlesbrough&#8217;s Finn Azaz celebrates after scoring his side&#8217;s first goal during the Sky Bet Championship win over Norwich&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[2726,1187,2721,18,17065,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-19579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-brentford-fc","9":"tag-celtic-fc","10":"tag-daniel-mcdonnell","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-heimir-hallgrimsson","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19579","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=19579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}