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Troy Parrott chips his late penalty over the bar in AZ Alkmaar’s loss to Twente. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n
Ireland hero Troy Parrott accepted full responsibility for his failed attempt at a \u2018Panenka\u2019 from the penalty spot, which cost his AZ Alkmaar side a valuable point in the top flight in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n
Already on the back of a two-game losing streak in the domestic league, AZ were 1-0 down away to FC Twente when they were awarded a penalty deep into injury time. The club\u2019s top scorer Parrott stepped up but he tried to chip the goalkeeper, Panenka-style, instead of going for power and blazed the kick over the bar.<\/p>\n
It was the Dubliner’s third consecutive penalty miss in the Eredivisie this season. <\/p>\n
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“It was poor finishing,” AZ coach Maarten Martens said of Parrott after the game.<\/p>\n
“If he chipped it there and scored, he’d be doing well. Troy took responsibility; he gave it his all today, but didn’t finish well. He’s already taken responsibility for that with the rest of the team.<\/p>\n
“He took responsibility for the loss of points, and rightly so. He can do much better than this, he realises that himself. It wasn’t good enough today. He’s still a striker, and he is creative. We’ll definitely talk about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Teammate Peer Koopmeiners, who starred for AZ alongside Parrott in their midweek Conference League win at home to Shelbourne, added that Parrott admitted his error in front of the group.<\/p>\n
Koopmeiners said: ” Ultimately, he apologised, and now it’s up to us to take some responsibility for it.”<\/p>\n
A third straight league defeat sees AZ drop to fourth in the table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Troy Parrott chips his late penalty over the bar in AZ Alkmaar’s loss to Twente. Photo: Getty Ireland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,898,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-168170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168170","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=168170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}