{"id":1927,"date":"2025-11-13T22:30:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T22:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=1927"},"modified":"2025-11-13T22:30:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T22:30:52","slug":"cristiano-ronaldo-sent-off-after-elbowing-ireland-defender-in-world-cup-qualifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=1927","title":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo Sent Off After Elbowing Ireland Defender in World Cup Qualifying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            POPULAR SEARCHES\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            BROWSE BY\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-b1ca39d9>Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo was sent off for elbowing Ireland defender Dara O\u2019Shea in the second half of their World Cup qualifying game on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-b1ca39d9>Ronaldo risks a two-game ban which would see him missing the first match of the World Cup tournament, if Portugal qualifies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-b1ca39d9>Ronaldo swung his right elbow into O\u2019Shea\u2019s back around the hour mark at Aviva Stadium with Ireland holding a surprise 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-b1ca39d9>The referee issued a yellow card but upgraded it to red after a video review minutes later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-b1ca39d9>Troy Parrott scored twice in the first half to revive Irish hopes of qualification.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-b1ca39d9><i>Reporting by The Associated Press.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-b1ca39d9><i>Want great stories delivered right to your inbox?\u00a0<\/i><i><u>Create or log in to your FOX Sports account<\/u><\/i><i> and follow leagues, teams and players to receive a personalized newsletter daily!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POPULAR SEARCHES BROWSE BY Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo was sent off for elbowing Ireland defender Dara O\u2019Shea in the second half of their World Cup qualifying game on Thursday. Ronaldo risks a two-game ban which would see him missing the first match of the World Cup tournament, if Portugal qualifies. Ronaldo swung his right elbow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}