Republic of Ireland striker Troy Parrott came off the bench to score the winner as Real Betis beat Real Madrid – with Kylian Mbappe missing an injury-time penalty.<\/p>\n
The Dubliner, 24, came on in the 68th minute and pounced to score from close range after Thibaut Courtois parried Nelson Deossa’s header.<\/p>\n
This was his third appearance and his first goal for Manuel Pellegrini’s Betis since his \u00a317.1m move from AZ Alkmaar.<\/p>\n
Carlos Espi thought he had rescued a point for the visitors with an acrobatic volley from Vinicius Jr’s cross but it was ruled out for offside by the video assistant referee.<\/p>\n
And even later than that, Madrid were awarded a penalty for a foul on Vinicius but Mbappe’s injury-time effort was saved by Alvaro Valles.<\/p>\n
The result ended Jose Mourinho’s three-game winning start to his second spell as Real Madrid manager.<\/p>\n
Mourinho knows Parrott well, having given him his only two Premier League appearances with Tottenham in 2019-20.<\/p>\n
The striker went out on loan to several EFL clubs in Millwall, Ipswich, MK Dons and Preston but failed to impress enough to break through at Spurs.<\/p>\n
A more successful loan spell at Dutch side Excelsior followed and that earned him a \u00a36.7m move to league rivals AZ.<\/p>\n
He scored 51 goals in 97 games in Alkmaar before moving to La Liga side Real Betis this summer – having also been chased by West Ham.<\/p>\n
On the international scene he made his name in November when five goals in the space of four days against Portugal and Hungary took the Irish into the World Cup play-offs, which they lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Republic of Ireland striker Troy Parrott came off the bench to score the winner as Real Betis beat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-81101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-madrid","tag-madrid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81101","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=81101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}