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].

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.
Republic of Ireland

Jackson Martinez has arrived in Spain following his £25million move to Atletico Madrid from Porto. The Colombia striker touched down in the Spanish capital on Tuesday to join up with his new team-mates, and was mobbed by reporters and fans desperate for a glimpse of their new star man. Martinez is following in the footsteps of now-Chelsea loanee Radamel Falcao, who swapped Porto for Atletico to much success in 2011. His countryman scored 52 league goals in 68 games at the club, but Martinez was quick to distance himself from comparisons when he arrived at the airport at around 3pm on Tuesday.Jackson Martinez has left Porto to join Atletico Madrid for £25millionThe Colombia striker touched down in the Spanish capital on TuesdayNow-Chelsea loanee Radamel Falcao made the same move in 2011Martinez has distanced himself from comparisons between him and Falcao 
 Question:'_ is Falcao and Jackson is Jackson, like you are a journalist and there are others.
Radamel Falcao

(CNN) -- The daughter of Cuba's president supports the re-election bid of U.S. President Barack Obama, but believes he could do more were it not for the pressures he is facing, she said in an interview broadcast Monday on "CNNi's Amanpour." "As a citizen of the world, I would like him to win," said Mariela Castro Espin, daughter of Raul Castro, in the exclusive interview, which was conducted Friday in New York. "Given the choices, I prefer Obama." The 49-year-old gay rights advocate said that Obama has been constrained in his ability to effect change. "He wants to do much more than what he's been able to do," she said. "That's the way I interpret it personally. I don't know if I'm being objective.""I would like him to win," Mariela Castro says of Obama's election bid"Obama needs another opportunity," she addsCastro says Alan Gross and the "Cuban 5" should be released 
 Question:Asked if Obama would lift the half-century-old trade embargo on Cuba if he could, Castro said, "I believe that _ is a fair man.

Barack Obama