{"id":245495,"date":"2026-01-15T05:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T05:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/245495\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T05:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T05:17:09","slug":"troy-parrott-hits-hat-trick-in-front-of-heimir-hallgrimsson-as-az-alkmaar-thrash-ajax-in-dutch-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/245495\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy Parrott hits hat-trick in front of Heimir Hallgrimsson as AZ Alkmaar thrash Ajax in Dutch Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Troy Parrott celebrates with teammates after scoring his third, and AZ's fifth goal, during the Dutch Cup win over Ajax at AFAS Stadion\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/tyImages_2255697836.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Troy Parrott celebrates with teammates after scoring his third, and AZ&#8217;s fifth goal, during the Dutch Cup win over Ajax at AFAS Stadion<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ireland striker Troy Parrott scored his first hat-trick for AZ Alkmaar in their 6\u20130 thrashing of Ajax in the Dutch Cup round of 16 tonight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ireland head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson was in attendance at the AFAS Stadion as Parrott brought his AZ goals tally to 19 in all competitions so far this season with two first\u2011half strikes and an 80th\u2011minute finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Troy Parrott celebrates with teammates after scoring his third, and AZ&#8217;s fifth goal, during the Dutch Cup win&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4700,61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-245495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-heimir-hallgrimsson","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245495","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=245495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}