{"id":205465,"date":"2026-03-27T01:54:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T01:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/world-cup-2026-qualifying-play-offs-live-updates-italy-beats-northern-ireland-czech-republic-and-bosnia-advance-on-penalties-the-new-york-times\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T01:54:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T01:54:28","slug":"world-cup-2026-qualifying-play-offs-live-updates-italy-beats-northern-ireland-czech-republic-and-bosnia-advance-on-penalties-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/world-cup-2026-qualifying-play-offs-live-updates-italy-beats-northern-ireland-czech-republic-and-bosnia-advance-on-penalties-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026 qualifying play-offs live updates: Italy beats Northern Ireland, Czech Republic and Bosnia advance on penalties – The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What a start to the penalty shootout for Wales!
Karl Darlow looked incredibly locked in as he ran to his goal for the first penalty and he leapt to his left to keep out Ermedin Demirovic's spot kick.
No mistake from Harry Wilson to give Wales a crucial 1-0 lead after a penalty each.
It's going to be penalties in Cardiff, where Wales and Bosnia has finished 1-1 after extra-time.
Wales have been here before, not that they need reminding \u2014 they lost 5-4 on penalties to Poland in a Euro 2024 play-off two years ago to the day.
It has finished 2-2 after 120 minutes in Prague. We go to penalties.
Irish forward Szmodics has been taken off on a stretcher after lengthy treatment. Harvey Vale comes on in his place to make his debut with just minutes to go until a shootout …<\/p>\n

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World CupWorld CupCountdownLIVE liveUpdated 2h agoItaly have set up a World Cup play-off final against Bosnia and Herzegovina after beating Northern Ireland at home.Sandro Tonali and Moise Kean got the second-half goals for Gennaro Gattuso's side as they avoided an upset in Bergamo.Elsewhere, seven other teams booked safe passage to the final play-off round on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":205466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-205465","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}