{"id":245285,"date":"2026-01-15T02:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T02:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/245285\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T02:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T02:17:09","slug":"troy-parrott-nets-hat-trick-in-az-alkmaar-demolition-of-ajax-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/245285\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy Parrott nets hat-trick in AZ Alkmaar demolition of Ajax \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/republic-of-ireland-mnt\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/republic-of-ireland-mnt\/\">Republic of Ireland<\/a> international <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/troy-parrott\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/troy-parrott\/\">Troy Parrott<\/a> was back in hat-trick heaven on Wednesday night, this time for his club AZ Alkmaar in their 6-0 win at home to Ajax in the Dutch Cup last 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Dubliner opened the scoring at the AFAS Stadion in the third minute before finding the target again in the 33rd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The 23-year-old\u2019s team-mate Peer Koopmeiners then struck on the brink of the break to give the home side a 3-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">And there was little reprieve for Ajax on the resumption, Kees Smit pushing his side four to the good in the 47th minute before things imploded for the visitors with a red card for Owen Wijndal, reducing them to 10 with over 20 minutes remaining.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Parrott was first to capitalise on AZ\u2019s numerical advantage, completing his hat-trick on 80 minutes, before Ibrahim Sadiq netted their sixth on 88 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Republic of Ireland manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/heimir-hallgrimsson\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/heimir-hallgrimsson\/\">Heimir Hallgr\u00edmsson<\/a> is understood to have been at the game in the Netherlands as he ramps up preparations for Ireland\u2019s World Cup playoff against the Czech Republic in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Republic of Ireland international Troy Parrott was back in hat-trick heaven on Wednesday night, this time for his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112,44452],"class_list":{"0":"post-245285","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-sports","11":"tag-troy-parrott"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245285","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=245285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}