By the ninety-third minute, the match was already in its final seconds.
Espanyol won a corner on the right and quickly took it, sending the ball toward the far post. Vermaelen headed it out of the penalty area, defusing the danger.
David Silva got to the ball before everyone else and brought it under control. After dribbling past a defender, he quickly passed it ahead of Di Maria. The Argentine sprinted forward, launched a swift counterattack, and sent a through ball ahead.
Real Madrid quickly created a two-on-one situation in the final third. Yang Yang and Suarez moved in tandem on either side, with Suarez receiving Di Maria's through ball. He immediately drove forward with it, dragging Espanyol's center-back all the way into the penalty area and creating a one-on-one.
Casilla kept adjusting his position. At first, he was worried that Suarez would square the ball to Yang Yang, but once the Uruguayan forward charged into the box, he could no longer afford to think about anything else.
Real Madrid's two forwards had created a double threat in front of goal. As a goalkeeper, he had no way to stop both of them. He could only gamble.
Suarez, however, seemed to have anticipated this. When Casilla rushed toward him, the Uruguayan forward quickly squared the ball with his right foot, sending it past Casilla and straight into Yang Yang's path.
At that moment, the enormous goal before Yang Yang seemed to be staging an empty-city stratagem. There was nothing in his way, and the goalmouth stood wide open.
Suarez's pass was perfectly weighted. In a sense, it was an unselfish assist, because with Suarez's ability, he could have taken the shot himself. Instead, he chose to pass.
Yang Yang certainly was not going to waste such an opportunity. He quickly