Real Madrid crashed to their first defeat of the season as they lost 1-0 to Real Betis at La Cartuja in Seville on Friday night, with Troy Parrott becoming the fourth Irishman to score in La Liga and the first to score against Real Madrid in the competition.<\/p>\n
6 – Of the last 8 meetings where Real Madrid have dropped points against Betis<\/p>\n
Betis have become something of a bogey team for Real Madrid in recent years, only winning two of their last eight fixtures against the Verdiblancos from Seville. Over the last 10 seasons, Betis have been the team with the most matches in which it earned points against Real Madrid with 12, level with Atl\u00e9tico Madrid, the team with the most clean sheets against Real Madrid, eight, and the second-highest-scoring team against Real Madrid in terms of points with 22.<\/p>\n
12 – Years since Real Madrid last lost a game on Matchday 4 or earlier<\/p>\n
Defeat on matchday four is Real Madrid\u2019s earliest league defeat since 2014, when there was a 4-2 away defeat to Real Sociedad on matchday two. But\u2026 the last time they lost their first game on matchday four was 1-0 vs Levante in 2011. That was the year Los Blancos went on to win La Liga under Jos\u00e9 Mourinho with 100 points. Less positively, a 1-0 defeat to Real Betis was also the score in Real Madrid\u2019s first defeat of the campaign in 2017\/18, when they finished third in La Liga, coming on matchday five.<\/p>\n
3.16 – xG, the highest Real Madrid xG without scoring on record<\/p>\n
With xG stats available dating back to the start of the 2020\/21 season, Real Madrid have never failed to score after recording 3.16 expected goals in a single game. That is 0.98 higher than any other xG recorded without scoring over the last six seasons. Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 led the way with 1.78 xG on Friday night despite failing to score, taking his tally for the season to 5.99 xG, almost two goals expected more than his actual goal return of four.<\/p>\n
5 – Yellow cards to Jos\u00e9 Mourinho as Real Madrid coach<\/p>\n
For the first time in 13 years, Jos\u00e9 Mourinho was shown a card in the Real Madrid dugout. This was his fourth in La Liga, his first since February 7th, 2013, as he was shown a yellow card by referee Alejandro Hern\u00e1ndez Hern\u00e1ndez for dissent. It was one of five yellow cards to Real Madrid players on the night, including Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior for his protests after the final whistle.<\/p>\n
7 – Chances created by Arda G\u00fcler<\/p>\n
One of Real Madrid\u2019s brightest sparks was coming from Turkish sensation Arda G\u00fcler. He created seven chances in total, worth 0.68 expected assists, three more and 0.19 more than his next most creative team-mate, Jude Bellingham. Even so, he was hooked on 64 minutes for Yan Diomande, with Mourinho pointing to \u201c\u201ca risk situation\u201d with his yellow card.<\/p>\n
5 – Players to miss a decisive penalty in injury-time for Real Madrid<\/p>\n
Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 enters the record books as the first player ever to miss an injury-time penalty for Real Madrid when it could have given the team an equaliser. There have been four others to miss decisive penalties when the scoreline was level, including Alfredo Di St\u00e9fano twice, Paul Breitner, Ra\u00fal and Ronaldo Nazario, the last man to do so in a draw with Valencia in 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Real Madrid crashed to their first defeat of the season as they lost 1-0 to Real Betis at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[82,621],"class_list":["post-80941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-madrid","tag-madrid","tag-real-madrid-cf-la-liga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}