The entire Santa Malaga team knows that Liag's physical fitness is a shortcoming. In the final stages of previous games, he almost became a standing center.
He consumed a lot of energy tonight. Who would have thought that he would still have the energy to participate in the offense?
Li Chuanqi did not transfer the ball to Liage's feet immediately, but drew the defense to his side by dribbling the ball.
"Pa!..."
After penetrating deep into the hinterland, Li Chuanqi made a diagonal pass because Liag's side was completely empty!
Liag began to squeeze the last bit of energy from his muscles, flew forward and controlled the football on the penalty area line!
The Malaga TV commentator loudly said: "Santa Malaga has another chance to score!
Is there any chance for Liag to extend the score?"
Liag moved the football to the front right, then raised his right foot and fired a powerful shot!
The football stuck to the turf like a sharp arrow, flew one meter in front of Munua's outstretched right hand, flew over the goal line in an instant, and penetrated into the net!
"Liag! Liag! Liag!"
The Malaga TV commentator shouted: "The ball has gone in! The ball has gone in! The ball has gone in!...
Four to zero! God! Four to zero!
Santa Malaga leads Levante 4-0!
This is incredible! This is a miracle!”
The Santa Málaga supporters went completely crazy and turned the Rose Garden into a sea of joy.
Levante fans stared at the stadium in stunned silence. God, are we hallucinating? We are playing against Barcelona at Camp Nou?
The Levante bench was suffocatingly quiet, and coach Ignacio Martinez's face was extremely gloomy. His team was four goals behind a D-level team!
And his team is playing with all the main players!
On the court, Liage shouted excitedly to the sky after scoring the goal.
After shouting, he pointed at Li Chuanqi, and then the two hugged each other tightly.
"I scored! I finally scored!"
Li Chuanqi smiled and said: "If you had better physical fitness, you would have scored a goal long ago."
Liage laughed "Hehe..." Who said it wasn't the case? If I had good physical fitness, I would have become a real professional player long ago. Scoring goals is not something that comes easily.
Levante players feel desperate. They still haven't figured out why they were scored four goals by the opponent?
The game restarted, Levante once again launched a fierce attack, and Santa Malaga resisted tenaciously.
The mentality of the Levante players changed. Center Baldo's long shot from outside the penalty area was about ten meters away from the goal. Farinos' stoppage went directly to the sideline...
"Beep! Beep! Beep!..."
After five minutes of stoppage time, the referee blew the whistle to end the game.
The Rose Garden stadium was filled with cheers and the Santa Malaga supporters were cheering!!
Someone yelled: "Four to zero! Four to zero! God, who would have thought?!"
"A miracle! This is a game full of miracles!"
"This is a great victory! A great victory for a D-level team!"
The Malaga TV commentator shouted: "The game is over!
Santa Malaga defeated Levante 4-0 with a hat-trick from youngster Li and Liag's icing on the cake, laying a solid foundation for promotion!
For the supporters of Santa Malaga, they are happy tonight, their team once again won, and it was a hearty victory!
With 4-0, Santa Malaga created their largest score in the King's Cup. This was also the first time they scored more than three goals in the King's Cup!
Tonight, Santa Malaga shocked the entire Spanish football world again, they pulled Levante off the altar!
Throughout the entire game, the two teams were evenly matched in the first half, with similar ball possession rates. However, in the second half, Santa Malaga changed their tactics and the ball possession rate plummeted.
What impressed us the most about Santa Malaga was their strong ability to create opportunities and their ability to seize opportunities.
But Levante was completely out of form tonight, missing many good scoring opportunities and even making many amateur mistakes.
What's even more terrible is that these mistakes were caught by Santa Malaga and converted into goals!
The most eye-catching performance of Santa Malaga tonight was of course the young player Li who scored a hat trick.
The second is their captain Pablo. The level shown by the two of them on the court is no worse than that of high-level league players!
This game is a great victory for Santa Malaga!
It is a victory that can be recorded in history!
They created a new history - the worst score difference between a D-level team and a La Liga team!
With this victory, their hopes of entering the next round have greatly increased, and they continue to refresh their own records!”
The game ended and Ignacio Martinez was surrounded by reporters.
"Tonight we missed at least five must-goals, and the opponent seized all opportunities, so we lost very ugly from the score, but this score cannot represent the course of the game!"
Ignacio Martinez knew he couldn't leave without saying something.
"The winter break has just ended and it's obvious that our condition has not recovered at all.
The players seemed to be on vacation and made many amateur mistakes, which would have been unthinkable in previous games.
This is a humiliating defeat for us, and I am willing to bear all the responsibility for the team's loss.
When we go back, we will sum up our experience and actively restore our condition. La Liga is coming soon, and that is our main battlefield."
Ignacio Martinez did not hide his disappointment in this game. His team was indeed very poor tonight, repeatedly missing opportunities to score on offense and making many low-level mistakes on defense.
"This is the worst game we've played this season!"
Ignacio Martinez finally made his evaluation of the game: "It was a disappointing night, my players were lost in the Rose Garden."
Ignacio Martinez left the group of reporters in an extremely depressed mood.
The reporters immediately moved their position to Santa Malaga.
They wanted to interview Li Chuanqi, who scored a hat trick, but they failed. Li Chuanqi was protected by his teammates.
In Liage's words, "Li is now our secret weapon, and we must protect him well."
Privately, Liage told Li Chuanqi: "You'd better get in touch with the media now. The water there is very deep. Reporters often quote things out of context, and it's easy for you to fall into the whirlpool of public opinion."
The reporters had no choice but to shift their focus to coach Antonio.
"This was a great night. This result was something we didn't expect at all. The players gave us a great game. We once again created a miracle and wrote our own legend!"
Antonio was very excited: “The audience is very powerful, and their shouts give us infinite strength, otherwise we would not be able to play such a wonderful game!
Li's performance once again refreshed my impression of him. He is now making great strides and improving almost every day!"
After praising Li Chuanqi, he praised other players: "Captain Pablo's performance in the midfield is still stable. Liag surprised me tonight. In the end, he still had the physical fitness to participate in the attack and also scored a goal!"
When talking about tonight's tactics, he said: "Anyway, we have set a new record, so we want to play the game we want, so we played an offensive battle with Levante in the first half.
After leading by one goal, we saw hope of winning the game.
In the second half, we started to shrink our formation, which gave us more space to counterattack."
When talking about Levante's performance, he said: "Levante is a very strong team, but it is obvious that they were not at their best tonight."
When talking about the promotion prospects, he said cautiously: "Although we achieved a four-goal lead in the first round, no one can say for sure that Santa Malaga has advanced.
The second round is an away game, Levante's performance will definitely be better than tonight, so promotion is still unknown.
All we can do is try our best, and let God decide what the outcome will be!"
At the end of the game, the Levante fans left the Rose Garden with great disappointment, while the Santa Malaga supporters left with satisfaction, especially those diehards, who called their friends to the hotel to have a drunken night.
Four to zero, beating Levante, ranked fourth in La Liga, to the ground. God, has there ever been a precedent like this in the more than 100 years of Copa del Rey history?
Santa Malaga is unique!
They have a sense of excitement about participating in the creation of history.
It is said that all the hotels in Malaga were brightly lit that night, reporters were busy writing reports, and professional scouts were busy writing reports.
The scout's report highlighted three people, one was Li Chuanqi who scored a hat trick, one was captain Pablo, and the other was Liag.
They all spoke very highly of Li Chuanqi and believed that he had extremely high training value. Some even said directly: "Li can join the first team now, can play in games, and can make a difference!"
They also spoke highly of Pablo, who has a balanced offense and defense, a strong outlook on the overall situation, and plenty of physical fitness.
As for Liag, they specifically mentioned that the center came from the Real Madrid youth training camp and has outstanding awareness and shooting ability.
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The Spanish fan forum was abuzz that night. The hot topic of discussion among fans was not Real Madrid's 3-2 victory over Malaga at the Bernabeu, nor Barcelona's 4-0 home victory over Osasuna, but Santa Malaga's 4-0 victory over Lewandowski.
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"A miracle on earth! Santa Malaga defeated fourth-ranked Levante 4-0!"
"Levante was beaten by the D-division team Santa Malaga!"
"Levante lost to a D-level team not 0-1, nor 0-2, nor 0-3, but 0-4!"
"The century-old Copa del Rey welcomes the biggest dark horse in history - Santa Malaga! They defeated Levante, which is flourishing in La Liga, 4-0 at home!"
"Nah, hat trick, it's not Ronaldo who penetrated Levante's goal three times, nor Messi who penetrated Levante's goal three times, but a 17-year-old D-League player!"
"This is no longer a miracle, it's a miracle! Levante, who played with all their main players, was defeated by a D-level team with four goals!"
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The next day, the major media in Spain placed the report of Santa Malaga's 4-0 victory over Levante in a prominent position.
Malaga Evening News commented: “Malaga visited the Bernabeu last night and after 90 minutes of fierce battle, they were defeated by Real Madrid with a score of 2 to 3.
Getting two away goals was a great honor for Malaga even though they lost.
As long as they can win by one goal in the next round, they can eliminate Real Madrid and advance to the next round!
What surprised us was another Malaga team - Santa Malaga!
In an earlier game, they defeated Levante, ranked fourth in La Liga, 4-0 at the Rose Garden Stadium!
Among them, young player Li completed a hat trick in the second half, and center Liage added the icing on the cake in stoppage time.
The level shown by Santa Malaga in this game is not like a D-level team at all, and is even more professional than the professional team Levante.
Before this game, Santa Malaga has given us too many surprises. Who would have thought that they could give us an even bigger surprise last night. This confirms the saying - nothing is impossible, only you can't think of it.
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Marca commented: “Before the game, it was generally believed that although Santa Malaga were at home, it would be impossible for them to defeat Levante, and even a draw would be difficult.
However, God seemed to have played a joke on everyone. Levante lost, and the loss was ugly - zero to four!
Levante wasted opportunities throughout the game and made various mistakes, which ultimately killed themselves.
On the other hand, the D-level team Santa Malaga performed more professionally and seized all the opportunities they could. What's more terrible is that they converted almost all opportunities into goals.
After the game, Ignacio Martinez attributed the failure to the fact that the winter break had just ended and the players were not in shape.
Although there are reasons for this, Santa Malaga cannot be denied.
Santa Malaga defeated Levante's arrogance with efficiency!"
