{"id":168049,"date":"2025-11-30T19:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T19:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/168049\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T19:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T19:25:07","slug":"parrott-misses-99th-minute-penalty-as-az-are-beaten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/168049\/","title":{"rendered":"Parrott misses 99th minute penalty as AZ are beaten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Troy Parrott missed a 99th minute penalty as AZ Alkmaar were beaten 1-0 by FC Twente in the Eredivisie this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The in-form Republic of Ireland striker was given the chance to level the game and attempted a &#8216;panenka&#8217;, but saw the ball go high and right in the final act of the match.<\/p>\n<p>He had earlier been booked in the match with Twente dominating proceedings and chances at a premium.<\/p>\n<p>Parrott has now missed three consecutive penalties in the Eredivisie, albeit he did score from the spot for Ireland in the World Cup qualifying clash with Hungary earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ENSCHEDE, NETHERLANDS - NOVEMBER 30: Troy Parrott of AZ Alkmaar missing the penalty during the Dutch Eredivisie match between FC Twente v AZ Alkmaar at the De Grolsch Veste on November 30, 2025 in Enschede Netherlands (Photo by Jeroen van den Berg\/Soccrates\/Getty Images)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/00238e61-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nTroy Parrott tried to dink the ball over the goalkeeper but it went wrong<\/p>\n<p>AZ defeated Shelbourne 2-0 in the UEFA Conference League last Thursday with Parrott not among the scorers.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s results leaves them in fourth place as they attempt to qualify for next season&#8217;s Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Evan Ferguson is in the Roma squad for the fixture with Napoli in Serie A this evening.<\/p>\n<p>He is hoping to build on last week&#8217;s goal against Cremonese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Troy Parrott missed a 99th minute penalty as AZ Alkmaar were beaten 1-0 by FC Twente in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-168049","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\/168049","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=168049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}