{"id":179902,"date":"2025-12-07T20:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T20:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/179902\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T20:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T20:44:08","slug":"parrott-nets-again-in-az-alkmaar-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/179902\/","title":{"rendered":"Parrott nets again in AZ Alkmaar draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Troy Parrott headed home his 20th goal of the season for club and country in AZ Alkmaar&#8217;s 2-2 draw against Go Ahead Eagles in the Eredivisie on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Republic of Ireland forward had a moment to forget last weekend when he fluffed an attempted &#8216;panenka&#8217; penalty deep into stoppage time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/soccer\/2025\/1130\/1546618-parrott-misses-99th-minute-penalty-as-az-are-beaten\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">with AZ 1-0 down at FC Twente<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He redeemed himself today by glancing home a 34th-minute equaliser after Melle Meulensteen put the visitors ahead early on.<\/p>\n<p>An own goal by Mats Deijl had AZ Alkmaar ahead at half-time, however Meulensteen struck again ten minutes from time to ensure it ended all square.<\/p>\n<p>In Serie A, Evan Ferguson was a second-half substitute for Roma as they went down 1-0 to Calgiari away from home.<\/p>\n<p>Roma were up against it after Mehmet Celik was shown a red card for a rash challenge on Michael Folorunsho just outside the box on 52 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson was introduced to the action 10 minutes later but Roma struggled to get any meaningly service to him with the Roman frontline looking isolated.<\/p>\n<p>Eight minutes from time Cagliari found the break through when Gianluca Gaetano smartly chested down a corner and fired a half-volley into the net from a tight angle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Troy Parrott headed home his 20th goal of the season for club and country in AZ Alkmaar&#8217;s 2-2&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-179902","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\/179902","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=179902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}