Leganés had their best chance to get back into the game and Romain Matthys took it away from them. The Castellón goalkeeper guessed right, got down and turned the spot kick clear, keeping the scoreline at 0-2 and killing off whatever momentum the home side had built.
A clean night at the back
Matthys finished with two saves in total, the penalty stop the obvious highlight, and picked up a match rating of 7.6 for his afternoon's work. It was the kind of performance that does not always show up in the box score but decided the game at the moment it mattered most.
Castellón took the points 2-2, sorry, 2-0 away from home, a result built as much on the goalkeeper refusing to blink as on whatever came at the other end. Leganés were left to rue the missed opportunity: had that penalty gone in, the entire complexion of the match changes.
Why it mattered
Penalties are supposed to favor the taker. Matthys flipped that logic on its head for one crucial sequence, and Castellón made sure it counted by seeing out the win. Two clean saves is a modest number on paper, but context matters here: one of them came from twelve yards with the game still open, and it kept Leganés at arm's length when a goal would have put them right back in it.
For Castellón, the road win adds up to three points banked in Segunda División, and for Matthys personally, it is the sort of individual moment that tends to stick in a goalkeeper's season, the save that changed nothing on the surface and everything underneath.