In Seville on a Friday night, the unbeaten record Jose Mourinho had carefully rebuilt at Real Madrid met its first undoing — not through domination by the opponent, but through the quiet cruelty of missed moments. Real Betis held firm, struck once through Troy Parrott in the 81st minute, and survived everything Madrid could summon, including a late Mbappe penalty saved by Alvaro Valles. It is a familiar lesson in football and in life: control without conversion is not yet victory, and the scoreboard remembers only what was finished.