One Parrott goal, and Real Madrid leave the Benito Villamarín with nothing

Real Betis beat Real Madrid 1-0 at the Benito Villamarín. Parrott scored the only goal.

That is the match, and in a sense that is all a 1-0 against Real Madrid ever is: one moment that goes in, and eighty-odd minutes of a home crowd counting down. Parrott supplied the moment.

What makes it stranger is where it sits in the sequence. Betis's last five read W 1-0 Real Sociedad, W 1-0 Valencia CF, L 2-5 Levante UD, W 1-0 Real Madrid, W 3-2 LOSC. A side that shipped five goals to Levante UD then kept a clean sheet against Real Madrid. Three of those five wins arrived by exactly 1-0, which is either a defensive identity or a very consistent margin of luck, and Betis will not much mind which.

What has not emerged is the detail. No minute for Parrott's goal. No lineups, no substitutions, no indication of who else was on the pitch when the game turned. Not even the LaLiga jornada is specified. For a result of this size, the record is close to bare: the score, the scorer, the ground.

It is enough. A home win over Real Madrid does not require annotation to be understood, and Parrott now has the kind of goal that follows a forward around for the rest of his career.

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