Top five players to score four goals in single match against Real Madrid

These players have shown no remorse when they played against Los Blancos

Taty Castellanos, an attacker for Girona who is on loan from MLS team New York City FC, won't soon forget April 25, 2023. Few football players in the history of the game have ever produced four goals in a single match against Los Blancos, but the Argentinian forward did it as the Catalan team defeated Champions League powerhouse Real Madrid.

Here are the top five players to score four goals in a single match against Real Madrid:

5. Esteban Echevarria (Real Oviedo), LaLiga, 1947*

The other players on the roster could be entitled to brag about scoring four goals against Real Madrid, but Esteban Echevarria is the sole individual in the LaLiga era to record as many as five goals against Los Blancos in a single match.

Prior to Cristiano Ronaldo breaking his record in 2014, the Basque attacker reached his peak a few years earlier with the quickest start to a La Liga season (14 goals in the first eight games). In a 7-1 defeat of Madrid in December 1947, Echevarria still had ample fire in his boots to score five goals.

4. Vicente Martinez Catala (Espanyol) - 1940

Madrid is renowned for not knowing when they are defeated. It was true long before the tournament they would dominate ever existed, as seen by the club's journey to a 14th European Cup in 2022.

Vicente Martinez Catala of Espanyol had already scored three goals and assisted colleague Gabriel Jorge in scoring within the first hour of a relatively unimportant league match in March 1940.

Los Blancos wouldn't go down easily though, scoring twice before Catala recorded his poker hand. The Catalan hosts were left holding on in a crazy 5-4 ding dong after two goals that were separated by less than two minutes.

3. Emilin (Real Oviedo) - 1944

A better way to commence an entire campaign than to thrash Real Madrid with four consecutive goals?

In the inaugural match of the 1944–1945 season, Emilin gave Real Oviedo a 3-0 lead inside the first 20 minutes as La Liga continued despite the Second World War. Although not a natural goal scorer, the nimble left winger is renowned for his aptitude to score straight from corner kicks, and he added a fourth to his total after the interval.

2. Robert Lewandowski (Dortmund) - 2013

Most notably, Lewandowski scored all four goals in a thrilling 4-1 triumph over Real Madrid on April 24, 2013, making that game the most unforgettable of all. The last player who registered four goals against Los Blancos was Robert Lewandowski, the present goalscorer for Barcelona.

The achievement was accomplished by the Polish attacker in 2013 while he was a member of Borussia Dortmund. In Dortmund's 4-1 victory over Real Madrid in the initial leg of the 2012–13 Champions League semifinals.

1. Taty Castellanos (Girona), LaLiga, 2023

Castellanos, 24, with more than 50 MLS goals to his credit, recorded his first three goals in a span of 34 minutes (between the 12th and 46th minutes), which may seem quick but is insignificant in contrast with the goals scored by Lewandowski (16 minutes), Martnez (15 minutes), Emiln (10 minutes), and Bestit (7 minutes).

If Christian Stuani hadn't stood in his place, to a thunderous ovation, after 72 minutes, he might have been able to match or probably top Echevarra's 76-year milestone.