Republic of Ireland defender James Abankwah’s first Serie A goal was a memorable one as it came at the famed San Siro, but his Udinese side still lost 5-3 to Inter Milan.<\/p>\n
The former St Pat’s player left Inter goalkeeper Josep Martinez rooted to the spot with a ninth-minute header, and it got even better for the away side when Jurgen Ekkelenkamp doubled their advantage seven minutes later.<\/p>\n
Inter were level by the break, Carlos Augusto and Nicolo Barella on target, and they made it five goals without reply through Marcus Thuram, Pio Esposito and Ange-Yoan Bonny before Idrissa Gueye struck a late consolation for Udinese.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Roma maintained their 100% winning start to the season with a 2-0 away win against Torino while Como defeated Parma 2-1 to move into third.<\/p>\n
Real Betis moved into third in the La Liga table after a 2-1 win away to Villareal, but Republic of Ireland striker Troy Parrott was an unused substitute in the victory.<\/p>\n
The Dubliner has enjoyed a brilliant start to life in Seville, scoring the winner against Real Madrid on his home league debut and also grabbing the crucial goal in their 3-2 Champions League success in Lille but Cucho Hern\u00e1ndez was chosen to lead the line here.<\/p>\n
Gerard Moreno put Villareal ahead in the first half but Hern\u00e1ndez and Natan secured a comeback win for Betis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Republic of Ireland defender James Abankwah’s first Serie A goal was a memorable one as it came at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-624917","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\/624917","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=624917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}