AZ Alkmaar delivered a dominant performance \u200cto win the Dutch Cup final on Sunday, hammering NEC Nijmegen \u200c5-1 at the Feyenoord Stadium in Rotterdam.<\/p>\n
AZ took a deserved lead after \u200b32 minutes as left back Mees de Wit netted from close range after a mazy run to the byline from left \u200bwing Ro-Zangelo Daal.<\/p>\n
They added two more after the break from Sven \u2060Mijnans in the 67th minute and Peer Koopmeiners six \u200cminutes \u200cafter \u200bthat.<\/p>\n
NEC pulled one back in the 78th minute through Japanese striker Koki Ogawa.<\/p>\n
Mijnans \u2060had the ball \u200bin the net again five \u200bminutes from time but it was ruled out for \u200coffside in the build-up, but \u200bat the start of stoppage time, newly capped Dutch \u2060international Kees Smit \u2060chipped NEC \u200bgoalkeeper Jasper Cillessen to make it 4-1.<\/p>\n
There was still time for one more from Ireland international Troy Parrott five minutes into stoppage time, with his close-range shot taking a wicked deflection.<\/p>\n
It was AZ\u2019s fifth Dutch Cup final victory but first \u200cin 13 years, \u2060while NEC have now lost all six finals they have appeared in.<\/p>\n
Cup success means AZ qualify \u200cfor the league phase of next season\u2019s Europa League. They \u200bwere eliminated last Thursday in the Conference \u200bLeague quarter-final by Ukraine\u2019s Shakhtar Donetsk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AZ Alkmaar delivered a dominant performance \u200cto win the Dutch Cup final on Sunday, hammering NEC Nijmegen \u200c5-1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-407671","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\/407671","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=407671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}