LaLiga survival may have been secured last weekend for Levante but they weren't prepared to take their foot off the gas even in the thunderstorms and downpours on offer at Estadio Butarque.

Leganes had the better of a damp squib of a first half with neither team having any clear cut chances, though the hosts looked more comfortable.

It took just three second half minutes to change the game though as Jose Luis Morales raced through the puddles to power a strong finish beyond Leganes' back-up goalkeeper Nereo Champagne.

Champagne was filling in for Ivan Cuellar after his wife gave birth on Monday afternoon and was hoping for a quiet evening, although he didn't get one.

Joseba Zaldua did him few favours as only two minutes after conceding the opener he tugged Morales down on the edge of the box and saw red as the last man, with Levante's set-piece specialist Enis Bardhi scoring his fifth direct free-kick of the season.

The effort looped over a ducking Jose Campana in the wall but Champagne's soft palm couldn't get enough on it to pass it around the post.

Things didn't get any better for Leganes as Coke added a third racing into the box and pouncing on Roger Marti's cutback to control and volley into the net.

There was also a historic moment as Fahad Al Muwallad became the first Saudi Arabian player to take to the field in LaLiga as an 80th minute substitute for Levante, being the only one of eight winter arrivals from the Middle Eastern nation to play so far in the top-flight.