With… pleasure, she stayed for another year historic Deportivo La Coruña! The Galician team, which as of 2020 has been relegated to the 3rd division of Spanish football, was ready – and optimistic – that this year it would return to La Liga 2 and slowly to the “living rooms”, however, without the incredible Castellon of its Greek-Canadian owner, Bob Bulgarian!
La Coruña had a “cellar” in their semi-final Primera Federacion the 1-0 of the first match in “Riathor”, with its fans, we remind you, creating incredible atmosphere in the stadiummaking one unique course towards it, by the thousands, before the first match. Tonight, however, they were to live another dramapreceded by a real thriller.
Castellon, at packed “Nou Estadi Castalia” of Valencia, led the 2000 Spanish champions 2-0 with goals in the 23rd and 31st minutes. La Coruña reacted, reducing in the 39′, with our familiar from his passage from PAOK, Lucas Perez, to equalize with a penalty in the 59th minute. The finale was, indeed, unimaginable. In the 90th minute, Castellon won overtime score, with India “writing” the 3-2! A few minutes later, the goalkeeper of La Coruña, Makai, he was sent off for punching(!) an opponent after a corner kick, with the referee showing the white penalty spot! Hernandez, however, who took over the execution in the 8th minute of stoppage time, missed the penalty (sent it out) and the two teams were eventually sent to the extra half hour. There, we had new destruction.
La Coruña, despite playing with one man less, equalized in the 98th minute through Salazar, causing frenzy in Galicia. The hosts, however, had not said their last word. In the 108th minute, the legendary captain of Castellon, Coubias, did it 4-3 in a frenzy, a score which did not change until the final of the semi-final, as a result of which his team went to the final, where Alcorcon is already waiting for them.
If it seems strange now that the game didn’t go to penalties, it is because… that’s the Spanish format in the 3rd category. If the score is still tied after extra time, i.e. we don’t have “russian roulette”, but what counts is the position of the teams in the regular season of the league. Castiglione was 3rd in their group and La Coruña 4th in theirs, but the terrible thing – because the Galicians are also unlucky apart from everything else – is that the first collected 62 points and the second 67! However, as we mentioned above, the position matters, so La Coruña will be in the 3rd division next year as well.
Goal de Lucas Perez ????
Goal from Deportivo de la Coruna that makes it 2-2 from penaltypic.twitter.com/TkxtAKiNsk— ?Golazos? (@Jmartinezfotogr) June 11, 2023
??La expulsion de Mackay que complica las cosas al Deportivo de la Coruna.
?El penalti lo lanzo fuera Pablo Hernandez.pic.twitter.com/4KED89Idfg
— El Chiringuito TV (@elchiringuitotv) June 11, 2023
Gol de Kuki Zalazar ????
Goal of Deportivo de la Coruna, que se adelanta del nuevo en la eliminatoria 3-3, minuto 100pic.twitter.com/K7GYkiezQX— ?Golazos? (@Jmartinezfotogr) June 11, 2023
Another year, Deportivo de La Coruna is not capable of returning to Segunda.
90′ Iguala el Castellon la eliminatoria
94′ Expulsado el goalkeeper Mackay for aggression
97′ Pablo Hernandez misses the penalty
108′ Marca el 4-3 el Castellonpic.twitter.com/lkAb8TmkMl— Jose Antonio Rivero (@joseriverof) June 11, 2023
Source: Sport Fm
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