José Juan returns to disguise himself as a Cup hero

A brilliant new Copa night at El Collao, another nightmare for Levante’s tough season. With one minus after the expulsion of Ángel López, six goals in the match and one extra time, the match was decided in the penalty shoot-out and there José Juan was once again the hero of the Cup to claim the head of another First in the Cup del Rey, stopping the decisive penalty to Bardhi with his heart. The one that Alcoyano put him to strike another elite team.

The granotas are still in full decline and are eliminated by a team from the First RFEF, which at no time accused the difference in level between templates and took a victory spurred by the public of El Collao, which again looked like on the big nights in his fetish competition. Only Morales scored in the penalty shootout, as a sign of the crisis of confidence that the team is going through. Aitor, who stopped the first, could not avoid the disaster despite keeping his team alive under sticks during the minutes of play.

Alessio Lisci already warned about the dangers of Alcoyano and in the first five minutes those of Vicente Parras endorsed his words. Intense and strong in the aerial game, with a field that always tightens, that is how the Italian defined them and that is how the first two goals came with Mourad as the protagonist, making blood where Levante suffers the most: from set pieces.

With Dani Vega as the engine and Mourad licking his lips in the area, the locals imposed their law in the first minutes spurred on by the heat of their audience. However, another Dani, in this case Gómez, refused to give up on a granota key.

With trade and clear ideas, the Blue and Whites kept the loot obtained in the first minutes and Carlos Blanco made a gap with the goal of the night, a foul that slipped through Aitor’s squad. Until Lisci moved the bench and took out all his artillery, with Morales, Bardhi and Melero to lead the revolution.

Alessio threw the rest and ten minutes were enough to tie the contest and open a new stage in El Collao, more after the expulsion of Ángel López. Soldado launched the team on the comeback after a pass from Pepelu and Morales found Dani Gómez to equalize the game. Even Melero, already in injury time, could decide the tie, but we would have to wait for extra time.

Already in added time, Raúl was able to decide the tie in the first half, but Aitor Fernández had a new saving appearance for Levante. The granotas, for their part, turned the field upside down without being able to clearly reach the rival goal. It was time to decide everything in the penalty shootout and José Juan disguised himself as a hero again to perform a new feat on Copa nights in Alcoy.