The game ended and Rayo was fourth in the standings, the Champions League place for the championship revelation, a team that returns to the First Division after finishing sixth the previous season in the silver category. He has already won five of the nine games he has played and is close to 50% of the points he will need to guarantee permanence. But not only Rayo wins, which he enjoys and makes people enjoy, signing a style between vibrant and fun. Seeing Rayo play brightens the eye because he wants the ball, but does not knead it in inconsequential passes while waiting for the rival to disarm. Everything that Andoni Iraola’s team does with the ball has an immediate intention. Everything flows fast. At full speed in Vallecas a comeback was celebrated against Elche that warns that this Ray does not stop.
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Dimitrievski, Saveljich (Maras, min. 82), Fran Garcia, Catena, Mario Hernández (Kévin Rodrigues, min. 72), Isi, Óscar Valentín, Álvaro García, Comesaña (Pathé Ciss, min. 83), Sergi Guardiola (Nteka, min. 61) and Trejo (Unai López, min. 73)
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Casilla, Gonzalo Verdú, Helibelton Palacios, Josema (Mojica, min. 77), Bigas, Fidel (Guido Carrillo, min. 78), Gumbau (Josan, min. 64), Omar Mascarell, Piatti (Lucas Pérez, min. 64) , Lucas Boyé and Benedetto (Raúl Guti, min. 64)
Goals 0-1 min. 13: Lucas Boyé. 1-1 min. 25: Mario Hernández. 2-1 min. 64: Nteka.
Referee Santiago Jaime Latre
Yellow cards Gumbau (min. 27), Unai López (min. 80), Álvaro García (min. 90) and Casilla (min. 92)
It was the fourth victory in four appearances for the Vallecano team at their stadium, where they have scored twelve goals and only conceded two goals. One of them was marked this Sunday by Elche, a hammer blow to strike at the start of the match that was punishing him, but which turned suddenly with a maneuver by Lucas Boyé on the balcony of the area, from where a shot was taken that broke the hands of goal Dimitrievski.
The goal had signaled a rookie, right-back Mario Hernández, who replaced the sanctioned and indisputable Balliu. At the edge of the quarter of an hour, he risked a pass to central positions that he was looking for Isi, but found Elche’s bilge, a robbery and a transition that Boyé resolved. But the Lightning did not ruffle it. Neither did Mario Hernández, bold and daring to gallop down his flank, happy to find his revenge in a center in Comesaña which the entire rear from Elche entered from behind to connect a header to the net and leave the game as it had started.
A pleasant half hour of soccer had passed, a hustle from area to area because Elche was not designed to slow down either. As soon as he could, he shot towards his attacking duo, where Boyé added much more than an unnoticed Benedetto. Lucas Pérez waited for his turn on the bench to play the last half hour and was able to score in the final minute. Carrillo also played when the plan was even more direct. Elche had attacking options, but the one who really generated them was Rayo, prolific in attacking production, always with the ability to explore the baseline and with unleashed talent, such as Trejo or Isi Palazón. Comesaña, in the first half, and Guardiola in the second, were able to score in one of those plays that stripped the hard-line back of Elche. But it was Nteka who finished undressing her, exuberant as always, concrete for nothing else to go out on the field to control Casilla’s goal with her back, turn, progress and uncork a shot, placed next to the strain of the post, which came in like a rush to the network.
Elche had half an hour to make amends. He accumulated auctioneers, but he lacked clarity and he was in a hurry. Rayo allowed him almost nothing, who not only plays football very well, but also maintains his worker DNA and did not need the luster of Falcao, just arrived from a journey with his team. El Tigre warmed up for a few minutes in the band, but did not get to enter the game.
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