Recreativo Huelva 2-3 Rayo Vallecano: extra-time burst turns it
AI-written review based on match data · How we make it
Key numbers
- 35 shots against a nine-match season average of 14.8
- 15 corners, a season high across nine matches
- Alemão won 10 of 17 duels and scored twice
Rayo come from behind in extra time
Rayo Vallecano came from behind to beat Recreativo Huelva 3-2 in the Copa del Rey. Ale Marín gave Huelva the lead in the 23rd minute, Alemão levelled from the spot before the break, and it stayed level through 90 minutes. Extra time decided it: Alemão and Jorge de Frutos scored in quick succession to put Rayo in front.
Plenty of shots, few on target
Huelva were a man short after Roan Riera's red card, and Rayo's shot count ran well above their nine-match season average of 14.8. It looks like pressure without much precision: eight on target from all that volume meant Huelva were still level when extra time began.
Rayo's bench opens the game up
Rayo's bench changed the match. Substitute Álvaro García made seven key passes and set up both extra-time goals, the first of them Alemão's. That one broke the deadlock and was worth +0.9 FN xPts to Rayo, while Huelva's FN xPts fell by 0.5, the largest combined change of any moment. Jorge de Frutos then added a second.
Huelva pull one back but fall short
Huelva pulled one back from the penalty spot through Paolo Romero in the 109th minute, a minute after Florian Lejeune's red card had left Rayo with ten players for roughly the last 12 minutes. There were no more goals, and the visitors saw out the remaining time.
FN MOM
Highest FN Score · our own pick by a published formula, not the official Player of the Match
Alemão 8.7Dominant
Two goals, one from a penalty he won, with three of four shots on target and 10 of 17 duels won.
Both of Alemão's goals arrived when the scoreline mattered most: the penalty he won and converted two minutes after Huelva's red card, then the extra-time opener that broke the deadlock and was worth +0.9 FN xPts. He also made three key passes and four tackles, so his contribution went well beyond finishing.
Game state
1-01-11-21-32-3
Recreativo Huelva ahead 20 min · level 77 min · Rayo Vallecano ahead 23 min
- Recreativo Huelva: Red card 41' → ~79 min a player down
- Rayo Vallecano: Red card 108' → ~12 min a player down
- Paolo Romero — off the bench 60 min · 1G 0A
- Álvaro García — off the bench 63 min · 0G 2A
- Jorge de Frutos — off the bench 63 min · 1G 0A
FN xPts — what each moment was worth
How much each moment changed that team's expected points (win 3, draw 1). A goal's value is credited 70% to the scorer and 30% to the assist. The value next to a team code is what the same moment did to the other side's expected points; the decisive moment is the one with the largest combined change for both teams.
23'
Ale Marín
Goal · scorer +0.3 · assist L. Dasilva +0.2 · RAY −0.6
+0.5
41'
Roan Riera
Red card · RAY +0.5
−0.5
43'
Alemão
Pen goal · REC −0.4
+0.5
97'
Alemão
Goal · scorer +0.6 · assist Álvaro García +0.3 · REC −0.5
+0.9
99'
Jorge de Frutos
Goal · assist Álvaro García · REC −0.1
+0.1
108'
Florian Lejeune
Red card · REC 0.0
0.0
109'
Paolo Romero
Pen goal · RAY −0.2
+0.1
Knockout ties have no league points, so moments are weighed on a win-3/draw-1 scale only.
Pre-match expectation for Recreativo Huelva is an estimate: no top-five-league record, so it uses the published starting values.
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Match stats
Recreativo HuelvaRayo Vallecano
The data provider has no xG (expected goals) for this match.
Compared with usual
Rayo Vallecano
9 matches this season, all competitions baseline
| This match | Avg | |
|---|
| Goals | 3 | 1.3 | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2.2 | |
| Shots | 35 | 14.8 | high |
| On target | 8 | 4.7 | |
| Shots faced | 12 | 16 | |
| Possession | 67% | 51.8% | |
| Passes | 787 | 415.7 | high |
| Pass accuracy | 86% | 80% | |
| Corners | 15 | 5.3 | high |
| Fouls | 18 | 13.1 | |
Timeline
- 21'
Yellow
Ivan Alonso Martin
- 23'
Goal
Ale Marín competition goal #1 assist L. Dasilva
- 32'
Yellow
Ale Marín
- 34'
Sub
L. Dasilva → Mateo Izaguirre
- 41'
Red
Roan Riera
- 43'
Goal
Alemão (pen) competition goal #1
- 46'
Sub
Aitor García → M. A. Montero
- 46'
Sub
Ivan Alonso Martin → Iván Balliu
- 57'
Sub
Rayane Belaid → Sergio Camello
- 57'
Sub
Jozhua Vertrouwd → Álvaro García
- 57'
Sub
Fran Pérez → Jorge de Frutos
- 60'
Sub
Samu Cortes → Paolo Romero
- 60'
Sub
Ale Marín → David Pecellín
- 78'
Sub
P. Prats → C. A. Wehbe Gonzalez
- 80'
Sub
Marash Kumbulla → Randy Nteka
- 84'
Yellow
Giorgi Tsitaishvili
- 97'
Goal
Alemão competition goal #2 assist Álvaro García
- 99'
Goal
Jorge de Frutos competition goal #1 assist Álvaro García
- 102'
Sub
Sergio Camello → Florian Lejeune
- 102'
Sub
Alex Bernal → José Carlos Ramírez
- 108'
Red
Florian Lejeune
- 109'
Goal
Paolo Romero (pen) competition goal #1
- 111'
Yellow
Mateo Izaguirre
- 115'
Yellow
Alemão
- 120+1'
Yellow
C. A. Wehbe Gonzalez
Category leaders
- Key passesÁlvaro García7
- Duels wonAlemão10/17
- DribblesFran Pérez3/4
- Defensive actionsMateo Izaguirre7
- ShotsGiorgi Tsitaishvili6 (on target 1)
- Fouls wonSamu Cortes4
#Copa del Rey#Rayo Vallecano#Recreativo Huelva#Alemão#Álvaro García
This review was written by AI from match data (API-Football). FN Score and FN xPts are calculated by Fulltime Note using a published formula.