{"id":279476,"date":"2026-02-04T01:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T01:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/279476\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T01:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T01:34:07","slug":"parrotts-extra-time-winner-seals-cup-semi-final-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/279476\/","title":{"rendered":"Parrott&#8217;s extra-time winner seals cup semi-final spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republic of Ireland striker Troy Parrot&#8217;s extra-time goal sent AZ Alkmaar into the semi-finals of the KNVB Cup in dramatic fashion.<\/p>\n<p>The Dubliner claimed an assist and plundered his 17th goal this season for the club to seal a 2-1 win over FC Twente and ensure a place in the last four of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Parrott was involved in the opening goal of the game, a delicate header back inside the area to set-up Matej Sin in the ninth minute. Kristian Hlynsson levelled for the visitors just after the hour mark before the game moved into extra time.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/soccer\/2026\/0114\/1553164-parrott-scores-a-hat-trick-as-alkmaar-hammer-ajax\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who scored a hat-trick in the previous round against Ajax<\/a> and continues his fine form ahead of the upcoming World Cup play-offs in March, proved to be the match-winner in extra time.<\/p>\n<p>Parrott was quick to react in the 97th minute when a shot from outside the area was blocked by a team-mate. The ball broke kindly for the red-hot striker, who dug it out of his feet with the first touch before lashing home with an emphatic left-footed strike.<\/p>\n<p>It takes Parrott\u2019s tally to 22 goals this season for club and country as Alkmaar bid for a first Dutch Cup since 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Republic of Ireland striker Troy Parrot&#8217;s extra-time goal sent AZ Alkmaar into the semi-finals of the KNVB Cup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-279476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279476","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=279476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}