"The board had gone up at the Ciutat de Valencia stadium on Friday night when Elche embarked upon a move that could have come from a cartoon or a console, the final scene in a film. Escape to Victory only more so, it started the way Michael Caine planned it, all arrows and crosses and ping-ping-ping, and finished the way Pele actually played it: a picture of perfection which earned them a 2-2 draw in the derby at Levante."
"From one end to the other Elche had gone, the edge of their area to the heart of Levante's. There had been a dribble out, a dozen passes, a touch for all of them. A superb assist, three defenders sent the wrong way. And then, two minutes into added time, the finish, Adam Boayar's astonishing overhead kick sailing into the corner to complete a goal so good it was silly, so pristine as to be almost surreal."
Elche built a sweeping, cinematic attack from their own area to Levante's, culminating in Adam Boayar's overhead kick in the 92nd minute. The move involved a dribble out, a dozen passes, a superb assist and three defenders wrong-footed before Boayar's finish sailed into the corner. The Ciutat de Valencia fell silent as away fans reacted in stunned disbelief. Levante, however, answered late in stoppage time with a long throw, a corner and a header from Alan Matturro, turning near-certain defeat into a shared 2-2 draw and producing wild emotional swings for both sets of supporters.
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