{"id":312753,"date":"2025-08-02T20:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T20:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/312753\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T20:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T20:09:11","slug":"wales-men-beat-ireland-in-eurohockey-ii-final-shootout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/312753\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales men beat Ireland in EuroHockey II final shootout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Wales men won a shootout in their EuroHockey Championship II final against Ireland in Portugal.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jeremy Duncan gave Ireland the lead but Jack Pritchard levelled and the game ended 1-1 at full-time with Wales winning the shootout 3-1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales&#8217; men had already secured their place in the World Cup qualifiers and Europe&#8217;s 2027 top flight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales women finished in second place at the Eurohockey II championships in Poland despite a 2-1 defeat to Italy in their final game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Maria Agustina Fiorelli put Italy ahead before a sliding deflection from Isabelle Howell brought Wales level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But a penalty corner from Italy&#8217;s Frederica Carter proved to be the winner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales were already assured of their place in the World Cup qualifiers in 2026 and the European A division in 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wales men won a shootout in their EuroHockey Championship II final against Ireland in Portugal. Jeremy Duncan gave&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-312753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}