With fifty seconds left Levante were level and the melon players took the game forward thanks to two goals in the last eight seconds
There are 49 seconds left before the end of the game. Marc Tolrá takes a weak shot from eleven yards out and Chemi is unlucky enough to slip and watch the ball pass his position and slide into his goal. The stands of the Palacio de los Deportes, very active during the match and with more people than on other occasions, sit down after long suffering and watch Levante attack with the goalkeeper player for five minutes.
He hesitates before the game, calls for a timeout and tries to revolutionize it from strategy. He attacks with numerical superiority, but he fails. A little later it doesn’t work for the ‘granotas’ either. Less than forty are left before the game ends. Two attacks.
Then Jimbee worked out a long possession, Waltinho found Motta on the edge of the area and he easily nailed it into the corner of goal from a Fede that had been superlative in the second half. It’s 4-3 and the melon fans are overflowing with joy. To top it off, Levante storms in and Luçao decides with the fifth hit of the day and the eleventh on his private account. Party on Avenida del Cantón. Jimbee’s third win in a row and fifth of six.
Before that, Jimbee had started the game like a shot with two strikes from Bebe and Juanan, the first, a nice chip off Fede and the second, with a brilliant spur finish after an incredible assist from Lucao. The joy did not last long. Sergio Mullor, the Levantine coach, called a time-out and immediately Rubi brought his team closer. In another defensive mistake, Peléh tied the game with a goal identical to the previous one. The draw didn’t sting Jimbee, who stayed close to goal, but the Levantine team continually slowed the game down and pushed it into its comfort zone.
The melon growers did not start well in the second half either. Levante came off as bossy, barely letting Duda’s men touch the ball in the first few minutes, playing fast and overcrowding Jimbee. Two shots almost in a row against the post could decide the game for the visitors, but luck, which would later be elusive for Chemi, sided with the Mazarrón goalkeeper.
Jimbee got back into the game with ten minutes left and that’s when Lucao showed up. He came off the bench with six minutes to play. They gave him a ball in the center of the field, he left an opponent and burst onto the crossbar. The ball bounced over the line. He didn’t get in, despite the crowd at the Palacio de los Deportes going wild for the goal.
In the next play, the Brazilian received on the left wing, moved to the right and beat Fede under the legs, who had made his goal a fortress throughout the second half, with a recital of saves of enormous merit. Levante played five in that last stretch and when little was left before the end, Tolrá drew. And then the madness began.
Source: La Verdad
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