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The Real Betis complicated his permanence in the present Copa del Rey against a third division team, but Diego Lainez came to the rescue of Manuel Pellegrini’s team. The Mexican attacker scored a great goal to lead the Betics to the victory over CF Talavera (2-4), achieved in the last minutes of extra time.
Lainez was a substitute , and entered the field at the minute 64 ′, with the match in favor of his own (1-2). However, at 89 ′ the home team scored the tying goal and forced extra time. Andrés Guarded, the other Mexican representation of the club, stayed on the bench.
When everything indicated that the classified of this key would be defined in a penalty shootout, the skilled Lainez appeared, at 116 ′, to change the ending of the movie.
The Mexican received inside the area, on the right side, cut a rival inside and hit him with the edge outside of the left foot. The ball scuttled around the angle. It was a great goal that was worth the qualification to the round of 32 of the Copa del Rey for Betis .
Three minutes later, and one before the final whistle, Sergio Canales scored the fourth so much. It was the Diego Lainez’s second goal of the season : the Mexican scored in Betis’s win against CFI Alicante, in the previous round of the Copa del Rey, a tournament in which he scores three goals in 11 matches.