In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].

[EX Q]: It is the game which, ultimately, could define the success or otherwise of Martin O’Neill and Roy Keane’s expensive Republic of Ireland tenure. Installed amid much fanfare 18 months ago, £1million-per-year O’Neill and his assistant Keane – with a £600,000 salary - were given a remit of qualification for Euro 2016, a task made easier by the expansion to a 24-team format. Defeat against Poland at the Aviva Stadium on Sunday, however, would all but render redundant any hope of automatic progression to next summer’s finals in France. It would be they and Scotland left to do battle for the play-off berth.Ireland play Poland in a Euro 2016 qualifier at the Aviva Stadium on SundayMartin O'Neill's side are three points behind group leaders PolandThe Ireland manager has been criticised for failing to make an impactO'Neill acknowledges significance of the game in relation to qualification 
 Question:The _ players are out through their paces in preparation for the Euro 2016 clash.
[EX A]: Republic of Ireland

[EX Q]: (CNN) -- The Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas lies just 200 miles from the Mexican border. On Sunday it will host the first U.S. Grand Prix since 2007 -- and thousands of Formula One fans are expected to cross the Rio Grande to cheer on a driver they know as "Checo." Sergio Perez has become one of the darlings of Mexico, a country that in recent times has become more synonymous for the drugs war waged by Felipe Calderon during his tenure as president. The sporting focus this weekend will be on America, but the problems of its neighbor will come into sharp focus in the Mexican town of Nuevo Laredo -- the closest crossing point for those hoping to see Perez at what is, in effect, his home race.Formula One driver Sergio Perez looking forward to his "home" race in Texas on SundayThe Mexican is expected to have thousands of fans crossing the border to support himHe has been one of F1's surprise success stories in only his second season on the gridPerez has earned a big-money move to McLaren after three podium placings in 2012 
 Question:It's the best country in the world and I'm so proud to be _," adds Perez, as his bright smile breaks out for the first time in conversation.
[EX A]: Mexican

[EX Q]: (CNN) Tiger Woods can add President-elect Donald Trump to his power list of golf partners. Former world number one Woods played 18 holes with the current White House incumbent Barack Obama back in 2013 and repeated the exercise with Trump in Florida Friday. Few details of the latest round have been released, but pictures emerged on social media of Woods, sporting a goatee beard, and Trump on the course owned by the tycoon in Palm Beach. Stephanie Grisham, a press spokesperson for Trump's transition team, confirmed that Woods and Trump played in a foursome before he went to the West Palm Beach Hilton for meetings with "high-level staffers" -- news agency AFP reported.Trump and Tiger Woods play round of golfPictures of round emerge on social mediaTrump owns several prestigious courses 
 Question:It received the backing of the Scottish government, but _ fell out with its administration over plans to build an offshore wind farm within sight of the new course.
[EX A]:
Donald Trump

