Copa del Rey: Soldier catapults Granada to the semifinals of penalty in minute 92 | Copa del Rey 2019

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Tuesday,
4
February
2020

23:20

A penalty goal by Jaume Costa decides a matched match and drives Valencia out of the competition. The Andalusian team had not come so far in the Cup for 51 years.

Soldier and Vadillo celebrate the first goal of Granada.
MIGUEL NGEL MOLINA EFE

Half a century without shining in the Copa del Rey he had passed Pomegranate that last night, pushed by Los Crmenes and commanded by Soldier became the first semifinalist of the competition. A penalty by Jaume Costa at the exit of a crner in the last breath of the regulatory time they gave Diego Martnez's team the fair prize he had sought with ahnco.

The ball had just been put into play and Granada had already taken the first step forward. Two minutes of scoring were enough for Soldier will lead a counter, face Paulista and beat Jaume even though he got to touch the ball. A surge as the first blow of effect that drives Los Crmenes crazy.

The Valencia tried to shake off the sticky pressure generated by the environment to try to find Ferran, the most decisive weapon available to Celades. The canterano exploded the hole in his fight with Neva and his centers to Maxi Y Rodrigo complicated the Nazar defense. However, the Andalusian team does not fall apart and, in the exchange of blows, Jaume had to cut a Vadillo shot that would have extended the score. The Valencian answer was un so much of Rodrigo in offside.

The exchange of blows does not cease throughout the first part. The VAR had avoided the draw, but far from having fear in the body, Foulquier and Yangel Herrera crashed two right-handers in the post while Maxi could not push the centers that Wass and Ferran serve him to the bottom of the network.

So open was the duel that he went to rest tied. Rodrigo, on his return to the title, takes revenge of the annulled goal taking advantage of a Coquelin pass to the heart of the area.

One of the incentives that has this cup format is that nobody can breathe. They neither did Granada nor Valencia, which run from one area to another. Mand Soldier again a ball to the stick. Maxi answered with a center-shot that passes in front of Aaron without finding a finisher.

Busc Diego Martnez exploit the weaknesses of Jaume Costa and Diakhaby giving entry to Mach, which had two clear chances to unbalance the score.

Celades sought the talent of Guedes, that he returns to compete after four months, and the Portuguese was about to return through the big door if his left-footed shot had not gone astray.

With the passing of the minutes, the extension that so many cheers have given Granada in this competition became more present, until in the last crush that Domenech forced to divert a Soldier auction, the VAR detected Costa's hand and took Granada to the semifinal.

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