{"id":458785,"date":"2023-09-11T01:11:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T21:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=458785"},"modified":"2023-09-11T01:11:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T21:11:47","slug":"the-netherlands-come-from-behind-to-defeat-republic-of-ireland","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/the-netherlands-come-from-behind-to-defeat-republic-of-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"The Netherlands come from behind to defeat Republic of Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Netherlands defeated the Republic of Ireland in a hard-fought game 2-1 away from home to keep their chances of qualifying for the 2024 Euros alive on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts knew it was all or nothing game for them and they threw everything at their opponent.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">THREE POINTS IN DUBLIN! \ud83d\udcaa<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NothingLikeOranje?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#NothingLikeOranje<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IRLNED?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#IRLNED<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KDVBRQYo2O\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/KDVBRQYo2O<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; OnsOranje (@OnsOranje) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OnsOranje\/status\/1700973027033489743?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It worked, as Stephen Kenny&#8217;s men found themselves in front after only 4 minutes through Adam Idah, who barely slotted home an awarded penalty for Virgil van Dijk&#8217;s handball.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Dutch were quick to respond and soon levelled the score in the 19th minute with a penalty of their own. Cody Gakpo stepped in and the Liverpool man held his nerve to bring his team back on level terms.<\/p>\n<p>But the Dutch were severely undeperforming and Koeman made a double change at half-time, which resulted in Wout Weghorst giving the away side a vital second goal, which proved decisive.<\/p>\n<p>The now sit 2nd in the group, tied on points with Greece, trailing to France, who have collected all of the 15 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Netherlands defeated the Republic of Ireland in a hard-fought game 2-1 away from home to keep their chances of qualifying for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":458786,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16885,16984,18476,18494],"news_category":[14236,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[21340,18423,21284,21339],"acf":{"announce":"Cody Gakpo and Wout Weghorst the heroes for Ronald Koeman's team","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458787,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458785\/revisions\/458787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458785"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=458785"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=458785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}