{"id":671378,"date":"2026-11-01T02:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T02:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/671378\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T02:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T02:36:11","slug":"european-troy-parrott-starts-in-betis-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/671378\/","title":{"rendered":"European: Troy Parrott starts in Betis victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Troy Parrott made his first La Liga start since September in Real Betis&#8217; 2-1 win at home to Malaga.<\/p>\n<p>A week after Betis manager Manuel Pellegrini, in relation to Parrott&#8217;s game time, expressed a desire to &#8220;manage him carefully&#8221;, the 24-year-old Dubliner was in from the off against the league&#8217;s bottom side.<\/p>\n<p>First-half goals from Marc Bartra and Pablo Fornals set the Seville club on their way, with Adri\u00e1n Ni\u00f1o replying for Malaga with just over 20 minutes to go.<\/p>\n<p>Free-scoring Barcelona hit Alaves for six as they bounced back from defeat against Real Madrid in a stylish 6-1 win at the Nou Camp.<\/p>\n<p>There were two goals apiece for Raphinha and Lamine Yamal, as well as one from Fermin Lopez and a late topper from England&#8217;s Anthony Gordon coming off the bench. Mariano Diaz grabbed the late consolation for the Basque outfit.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Harry Kane missing from the spot against Borussia Dortmund - October 2026\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/00254322-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nHarry Kane missing from the spot<\/p>\n<p>Ballon d&#8217;Or winner Harry Kane could not add a team victory to personal glory as he missed a penalty before Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich were held by rivals Borussia Dortmund in a 2-2 draw at the Allianz Arena.<\/p>\n<p>The England captain &#8211; who received a guard of honour &#8211; showed off his trophy and wore a special pair of gold-plated boots for Der Klassiker in celebration of his win at Monday&#8217;s glitzy awards ceremony in London.<\/p>\n<p>Konrad Laimer gave Bayern a 38th-minute lead moments after Jobe Bellingham had a goal ruled out for Dortmund.<\/p>\n<p>Kane was handed a chance to cap an historic week on the hour mark when he won a spot-kick, but instead he missed it and Serhou Guirassy promptly levelled.<\/p>\n<p>Dayot Upamecano headed Bayern back in front in the 66th minute but Fabio Silva snatched a point with his equaliser in the final minute.<\/p>\n<p>The draw leaves the opponents level on 18 points at the top of the Bundesliga table, two points clear of third-placed Freiburg, who gained ground with a 2-1 win over Augsburg, and fourth-placed Leipzig beat Schalke 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>Diego Moreira scored and contributed two assists as AC Milan snapped Inter Milan&#8217;s nine-match unbeaten run this Serie A season in a 3-1 victory at San Siro.<\/p>\n<p>The Belgian first set up Christian Pulisic and Adrien Rabiot, then added a goal of his own on the other side of Alessandro Bastoni&#8217;s header to ensure Inter dropped to second behind Lazio in the Serie A table.<\/p>\n<p>Troyes beat Le Mans 2-0 in Saturday&#8217;s only Ligue 1 contest.<\/p>\n<p>Additional reporting: PA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Troy Parrott made his first La Liga start since September in Real Betis&#8217; 2-1 win at home to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-671378","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\/671378","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=671378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}