{"id":618909,"date":"2026-09-09T03:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T03:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/618909\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T03:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T03:58:10","slug":"troy-parrott-scores-winner-on-champions-league-debut-as-real-betis-sink-lille-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/618909\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy Parrott scores winner on Champions League debut as Real Betis sink Lille \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Champions League: Lille 2 (Ueda 12, Alexsandro 36) Real Betis 3 (Bartra 33, 49, Parrott 53)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/republic-of-ireland-mnt\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/republic-of-ireland-mnt\/\">Republic of Ireland<\/a> international <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> was in goalscoring form again 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>, netting on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/champions-league\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/champions-league\/\">Champions League<\/a> debut as the Spanish club claimed a 3-2 win away to Lille.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ayasa Ueda put the hosts ahead early with his 12th-minute strike, but Marc Bartra scored his first equaliser of the evening on 33 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Alexsandro restored Lille\u2019s lead minutes later, but Bartra would again find the net on 49 minutes to pull Manuel Pellegrini\u2019s side back level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">On 53 minutes, Parrott, making his second start in his fourth appearance for his new club, capitalised on some poor defending by Nathan Ngoy to put Betis ahead.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddfa | GOAL: TROY PARROTT SEALS THE COMEBACK FOR REAL BETIS!<\/p>\n<p>WHAT A GOLAZO! WHAT AGAME! FANTASTIC!<\/p>\n<p>Lille 2-3 Real Betis.    <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fQQj4k08L1\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/fQQj4k08L1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TheGoalsZone (@TheGoalsZone) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheGoalsZone\/status\/2097418421004619933?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 8, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A red card for Ethan Mbapp\u00e9 soon added to the home side\u2019s woes and Parrott threatened again late on, hitting the woodwork with a long, curling effort in the last play of the game as Betis held on for the win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It comes after the Dubliner scored his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/sport\/soccer\/2026\/09\/04\/troy-parrott-goal-sends-real-betis-to-victory-against-real-madrid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/sport\/soccer\/2026\/09\/04\/troy-parrott-goal-sends-real-betis-to-victory-against-real-madrid\/\">first goal for his new side last time out<\/a>, netting what proved to be the winner in their La Liga meeting with Real Madrid on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cI\u2019m very happy for Parrott,\u201d Pellegrini said of the 24-year-old\u2019s effort against Madrid. \u201cHe made a mistake against Levante,\u201d he added, referencing their 5-2 defeat on Parrott\u2019s first start for Betis on August 29th, \u201cbut [on Friday] he had the instinct to score that goal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cIt\u2019s going to give him a lot of confidence. It was a goal of great effort and power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Next up for Betis in the Champions League is a home tie on October 14th against Portuguese side Porto, who suffered a 2-0 defeat to Manchester City on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Champions League: Lille 2 (Ueda 12, Alexsandro 36) Real Betis 3 (Bartra 33, 49, Parrott 53) Republic of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15013,42,6398,43,105153,40,38,41,39,44452],"class_list":["post-618909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-champions-league","tag-headlines","tag-match-report","tag-news","tag-real-betis","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-troy-parrott"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618909","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=618909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}