Real Betisvs
GetafeReal Betis didn't need to be brilliant on Thursday night. They just needed to be patient, and against a Getafe side that came to Seville with a clear plan to absorb and frustrate, patience was the whole game.
For 44 minutes, Getafe held the line. They sat deep, they fouled early and often — 24 fouls by the final whistle — and they made Betis work every inch of the pitch. Betis had the ball constantly, 75% of it, and kept knocking on the door without quite breaking through. Then Troy Parrott found Abde Ezzalzouli just before the break, and that was enough.
The finish came in the 45th minute and it settled the match before halftime had even arrived. Cabal, that was the moment the contest was decided — Getafe had no real answer going forward, and losing the lead they'd managed to protect all half deflated whatever shape they'd come with.
Yellow Cards and a Red
The match had its rough edges even before the goal. Ángel Ortiz picked up a yellow for Betis in the 24th minute, with Getafe's Davinchi following him into the book just a minute later. The foul count on both sides was rising, and the referee was busy.
After the break, with Getafe chasing the game and finding little joy — their eight shots produced just two on target, with the Betis goalkeeper making six saves across the full 90 — the frustration started to show in the bookings. Mario Martín went into the book in the 53rd minute. Nemanja Gudelj followed in the 70th, Sebastián Boselli in the 74th. Then Martín collected his second yellow in the 87th minute and walked, leaving Getafe to see out the final few minutes a man down.
By that point it was a formality. Betis had 22 shots, eight of them on target, and a passing accuracy of 90% across 672 attempted passes. Getafe managed 215. El dominio de Betis in this one wasn't close.
Our pre-match read made Real Betis the favorite at 63%, and the match played out exactly that way — no drama, no upset, just a controlled home win that matched the form going in.
Getafe, meanwhile, continue to drift. They came into the Villamarín having won none of their last five — two draws sandwiched by three losses — and nothing here will change that picture. The disciplinary record alone, four yellows and a red in a single match, suggests a team under pressure and running out of answers.
For Betis, this was their fifth win in their last five. They're not always going to score more than once, and they'll feel they left chances behind on a night when a second goal would have made everything more comfortable. But the clean sheet is there, the three points are there, and Abde Ezzalzouli and Troy Parrott combined at exactly the right moment. That's the kind of game you take and move on from.
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