Troy Parrott was among the goals again as he returned to club action after his Republic of Ireland heroics, but he could not stop AZ Alkmaar from slipping to a 3-1 defeat at Heerenveen on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The country is still basking in the glow of Parrott’s remarkable hat-trick in Hungary that sent the Boys in Green into a World Cup play-off semi-final against Czech Republic in March.<\/p>\n
He’s been in sensational form this season, and would have hoped to ride that moment as third-placed AZ Alkmaar got back to action in the Eredivisie.<\/p>\n
However things did not go to plan at Abe Lenstra Stadion.<\/p>\n
Former Hibernian attacker Dylan Vente put ninth-placed Heerenveen ahead in the 38th minute, with Joris van Overeem doubling their lead two minutes later.<\/p>\n
Parrott gave AZ a lifeline 15 minutes from time with a lovely touch, turn and first-time finish that found the net via the inside of the post.<\/p>\n
Their hopes was crushed just four minutes later though, when Luuk Brouwers steered home a fine finish to kill the game.<\/p>\n
Parrott will square up to a familiar name in his next game: AZ welcome Shelbourne to AFAS Stadion in the Conference League this Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Troy Parrott was among the goals again as he returned to club action after his Republic of Ireland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-155499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}