{"id":603313,"date":"2026-08-24T17:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T17:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/603313\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T17:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T17:28:10","slug":"troy-parrott-could-make-la-liga-debut-on-tuesday-as-pellegrini-says-he-is-ready-to-play-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/603313\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy Parrott could make La Liga debut on Tuesday as Pellegrini says he is \u2018ready to play\u2019 \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">New signing <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> is set to make his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/la-liga\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/la-liga\/\">La Liga<\/a> debut for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/real-betis\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/real-betis\/\">Real Betis<\/a> after he was named in the squad to play Valencia on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Manager Manuel Pellegrini said that the Irish striker, who signed for \u20ac20 million from AZ Alkmaar last week, is \u201cready to play\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cTroy has not been working with us for a long time,\u201d Pellegrini said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cHe joined us only a day before the last game. But he has been working hard and he is on the list because he is ready to play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cHe is a player who has an important challenge in front of him, to make a leap in his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cHe has many attributes to do it. He is not only a number nine. I hope he is an important reinforcement because there are many games to play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cHe has to adapt to the different ways we have offensively but I think that, in football, his is the position that has the least tactical influence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cHe\u2019s a good goalscorer, he knows how to find space and is a good player. He has that instinct for the ball and I think he\u2019s going to do well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Real Betis won their opening game of the season 1-0 against Real Sociedad, where Cucho Hern\u00e1ndez started up front. Winger Rodrigo Riquelme got the winner as Betis made a winning start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New signing Troy Parrott is set to make his La Liga debut for Real Betis after he was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,27562,105153,112,44452],"class_list":["post-603313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-la-liga","tag-real-betis","tag-sports","tag-troy-parrott"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603313","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=603313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}