A RECORD FOR CASTELLANOS
Castellanos scores first league poker against Real Madrid in 75 years!
Yesterday, the 24-year-old Girona striker Valentín (Taty) Castellanos has scores all 4 goals of his club at its sensational win over Real Madrid (4-2) in La Liga.
*He became the first player to score a poker against “Los Blancos” in almost exactly 10 years (more accurately, 10 years and 1 day). The last “romperredes” to do it was Robert Lewandowski on 24 April 2013, in an epic first leg Champions League semi-final for Borussia Dortmund (4-1).
*Castellanos is also the second Argentine to net as many goals vs Real Madrid in a single game, after Diego Milito (for Zaragoza in Copa del Rey semi-final).
*The “anti-Madrid” league poker was last seen as long ago as in 1947; it was actually even a penta-trick (the only one for all time), made by Esteban Echevarría (Oviedo).
*In total, 9 players managed to do such feat in the history, counting all competitions, both national and international. They are listed in the table in chronological order.
*As for Carlo Ancelotti personally, he has seen for the first time (!) a rival player scoring poker against any of his teams in his 28-year long professional career as a coach (which counts a total of 1,274 official matches for 10 clubs).
*After the victory, Girona becomes the only club in the entire history of La Liga that has a positive balance against Real Madrid (3 wins, 1 draw, 2 losses).
| ALL POKERS | AGAINST | REAL | MADRID | |||
| Player | Nationality | Goals | Date | Team (Score) | Tourn. | |
| 1 | Josep Samitier | Spain | 4 | 18/04/1926 | Barcelona (5-1) | NC |
| 2 | Martí Vantolrà | Spain | 4 | 21/04/1935 | Barcelona (5-0) | NL |
| 3 | Vicent Martínez Catalá | Spain | 4 | 03/03/1940 | Español (5-4) | NL |
| 4 | Emilín | Spain | 4 | 24/09/1944 | Oviedo (4-0) | NL |
| 5 | Esteban Echevarría | Spain | 5 | 21/12/1947 | Oviedo (7-1) | NL |
| 6 | Eulogio Martínez | Paraguay | 4 | 19/05/1957 | Barcelona (6-1) | NC |
| 7 | Diego Milito | Argentina | 4 | 08/02/2006 | Zaragoza (6-1) | NC |
| 8 | Robert Lewandowski | Poland | 4 | 24/04/2013 | Borussia Dortmund (4-1) | CL |
| 9 | Taty Castellanos | Argentina | 4 | 25/04/2023 | Girona (4-2) | NL |
NC = NATIONAL CUP
NL = NATIONAL LEAGUE