{"id":355465,"date":"2026-03-20T03:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T03:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/355465\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T03:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T03:36:07","slug":"troy-parrott-on-the-scoresheet-for-az-alkmaar-in-prague-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/355465\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy Parrott on the scoresheet for AZ Alkmaar in Prague \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><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> continued his fine run of form as AZ Alkmaar advanced to the Uefa Conference League quarter-final with a dominant 4-0 away win over Sparta Prague, completing a 6-1 aggregate win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In what <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\/\">Ireland<\/a> fans will be hoping is a good omen in the Czech capital, Parrott scored AZ\u2019s second goal with a tidy left-footed finish, and then unselfishly laid on his side\u2019s fourth, scored by Ro-Zangelo Daal, before being substituted shortly after.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Troy Parrott scores against Czech opposition ahead of next week&#8217;s massive game \ud83e\udd9c<\/p>\n<p>The Irishman strikes from close range to put AZ Alkmaar 4-1 up on aggregate \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddea <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j2cBeyKEjz\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/j2cBeyKEjz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Premier Sports Ireland (@PremSportsIRL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PremSportsIRL\/status\/2034742324639444994?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 19, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">AZ will now play Shakhtar Donetsk in the next round. Parrott will be back in the Czech Republic next Thursday for Ireland\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/world-cup\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/world-cup\">World Cup <\/a>playoff game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Crystal Palace\u2019s European adventure continues after Ismaila Sarr\u2019s extra-time winner at nine-man AEK Larnaca booked a Conference League quarter-final against Fiorentina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sarr fired Palace, who had drawn the first leg 0-0, into a 13th-minute lead in Cyprus, but defender Enric Saborit levelled in the 63rd minute, only to be sent off 10 minutes later after being shown a second yellow card.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sarr put the Eagles 2-1 ahead nine minutes into extra time before twice going close to a hat-trick, clipping the crossbar on both occasions, the second time after Larnaca had been reduced to nine men following Petros Ioannou\u2019s dismissal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A moment of brilliance from Emiliano Martinez helped Aston Villa reach a third successive European quarter-final as they saw off Lille in the Europa League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Argentina goalkeeper, whose long-term future at Villa remains in doubt, played a big part in John McGinn\u2019s second-half opener 15 seconds after making an important save.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Leon Bailey\u2019s late second goal completed a 2-0 win on the night, 3-0 on aggregate, setting up a quarter-final meeting with either Bologna or Roma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Progress keeps Villa\u2019s dream of a trophy alive and, after falling short in the Conference League and Champions League in the last two seasons, Europa League specialist Unai Emery must be smelling the scent of a fifth title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Nottingham Forest fought back \u200cfrom a first leg deficit to reach the Europa League quarter-finals with \u200ca 3-0 penalty shootout win over Midtjylland after the teams finished 2-2 on \u200baggregate following extra time on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">After Midtjylland secured a \u20601-0 first-leg victory at a rain-soaked City Ground through \u200cCho \u200cGue-sung\u2019s \u200blate header, Forest made sure their campaign would not end in the round of 16 \u2060as goals from \u200bNicolas Dominguez and Ryan Yates \u200bsealed them a 2-1 win on Thursday to take the \u200cmatch into penalties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In the shootout, while Midtjylland missed all three of their spot-kicks, \u200bMorgan Gibbs-White, Ibrahim Sangare and Neco Williams \u200ball fired into the net to lead Forest into the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Troy Parrott continued his fine run of form as AZ Alkmaar advanced to the Uefa Conference League quarter-final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[41190,15011,61,60,1842,112,44452,4018],"class_list":["post-355465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-europa-conference-league","tag-europa-league","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-republic-of-ireland-mnt","tag-sports","tag-troy-parrott","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355465","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=355465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}