{"id":155683,"date":"2025-11-23T16:52:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T16:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/155683\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T16:52:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T16:52:06","slug":"ferguson-breaks-13-month-goal-drought-to-send-roma-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/155683\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferguson breaks 13-month goal drought to send Roma top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evan Ferguson came off the bench to end his almost 13-month goal drought at club level and send Roma top of the Serie A standings with a 3-1 win at Cremonese.<\/p>\n<p>In an action-packed first half, which included a Roma goal ruled out for offside and a Cremonese penalty overturned, the visitors took the lead through Matias Soule&#8217;s shot from the edge of the area in the 17th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Republic of Ireland striker Ferguson was introduced on the hour mark, and four minutes later the 21-year-old netted his first goal for Roma in what was his 11th appearance for the club.<\/p>\n<p>Wesley Franca wrapped up the win five minutes later, with Francesco Folino heading in a stoppage-time consolation goal for the hosts.<\/p>\n<p>Roma are now on 27 points, two ahead of holders Napoli, who beat Atalanta 3-1 on Saturday, with Inter Milan third on 24 points ahead of their clash with AC Milan later this evening. Cremonese are 12th in the standings on 14 points.<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson&#8217;s red-hot international team-mate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/soccer\/2025\/1123\/1545422-parrott-scores-again-but-az-alkmaar-slip-to-defeat\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Troy Parrott had earlier goaled<\/a> for his club, AZ Alkmaar, in their 3-1 defeat at Heerenveen in the Dutch Eredivisie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Evan Ferguson came off the bench to end his almost 13-month goal drought at club level and send&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-155683","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\/155683","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=155683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}