Every player to score four goals against Real Madrid in La Liga

To attain 4 targets in a single match – a poker as its identified in Spain – is a uncommon set of playing cards to be dealt.

Since Antonio Emery – future supervisor Unai Emery’s grandfather – conceded the primary strike within the historical past of La Liga practically a century in the past, lower than 150 gamers have ever felt the incandescent pleasure of scoring as many as 4 targets in the identical recreation.

But, solely half a dozen have ever achieved such a feat in opposition to essentially the most profitable membership within the historical past of the competitors, Actual Madrid.

Listed below are every of the choose few to have hit these heights in opposition to such regal opposition.

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The likes of Johan Cruyff, Romario and Lionel Messi have all been a part of Barcelona sides to beat Actual Madrid 5-0 however none of them scored as many as 4 targets in these historic thrashings.

A victory of that scale in El Clasico has turn out to be often known as la manita – the little hand. When Martin Ventolra bagged a quadruple in Barcelona’s 5-0 thumping of Madrid in 1935, 4 of the fingers held up belonged to him.

Madrid famously by no means know when they’re overwhelmed. It is a truism proved all through the membership’s run to a 14th European Cup in 2022 and lengthy earlier than the competitors they might dominate was even invented.

Espanyol’s Vicente Martinez Catala had accomplished his hat trick – and seen teammate Gabriel Jorge discover the online as properly – contained in the opening hour of a seemingly routine league recreation in March 1940.

Nevertheless, Los Blancos wouldn’t lie down, scoring twice earlier than Catala notched his poker. Two targets separated by lower than two minutes left the Catalan hosts hanging on in bonkers 5-4 ding dong.

What higher approach to begin a season than rattling 4 unanswered targets previous Actual Madrid?

As La Liga continued whatever the Second World Conflict, Emilin fired Actual Oviedo right into a 3-0 lead contained in the opening 20 minutes within the first recreation of the 1944/45 season. The spritely left winger, not a pure poacher however famed for his capacity to attain instantly from nook kicks, added a fourth to his private haul after the break.

The opposite gamers on this checklist could possibly boast 4 targets in opposition to the mighty Actual Madrid however Esteban Echevarria is the one particular person within the historical past of La Liga to attain as many as 5 in the identical recreation in opposition to Los Blancos.

The Basque ahead peaked just a few years earlier with the quickest begin to a La Liga season – 14 targets within the first eight video games – till Cristiano Ronaldo broke his report in 2014. Nevertheless, Echevarria nonetheless had sufficient spark in his boots to plunder 5 targets in a 7-1 rout of Madrid in December 1947.

Up till the night time of Tuesday 25 April 2023, Taty Castellanos’ debut season at Girona had been promising however undermined by a scarcity of medical edge. That narrative was not a lot rewritten however doused in gasoline and set aflame with a ruthless four-goal haul in opposition to Actual Madrid of all groups.

Castellanos was the epitome of effectivity in entrance of a deafening crowd, finishing simply 4 passes however scoring as many targets from 5 photographs heading in the right direction in a well-known 4-2 victory for Girona.