Malaga trounces Almeria 3-1: second half goal spree lifts team from last spot - La Liga match update
Malaga CF beat UD Almeria 3-1 in a La Liga encounter at the Estadio La Rosaleda on Monday night. A triple strike in the second half, helped the hosts to move out of last place but they still remain in the drop zone.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Manu-Torres-c23378 and Francisco Portillo were replaced by Jesus Gamez and Quincy Owusu- Abeyie. On the other hand, Jose Luis Oltra also made two
changes to his side that was held to a 1-1 draw against Deportivo La Coruna. Hernan Pellerano and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Carlos-Garcia-c8440 respectively.
The first half say the Almeria get off to a flying start as the visitors opened the scoring in the 8th minute. Antonio Luna swung a cross from the right wing, which was beautifully placed into the bottom corner of the net by http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Sofiane-Feghouli-c33740 to
make it 1-0 for Almeria. Moments later, the hosts came close to equalising, when Jose Recio’s head effort went just wide off the post from Antonio Apono’s corner. Apono missed a clear opportunity for another goal, when his shot from deep inside the penalty
area missed narrowly to the left post. The hosts enjoyed a good spell of possession and came close pulling up even several times. Just on the brink of the first half whistle, Oliveira Weligton’s header from a free kick went centimetres over the bar.
The second half started positively for the hosts, as they equalised almost immediately after the resumption. Enzo Marseca was fed in the penalty area and he finished into the bottom right corner of the goal to make it 1-1 for Malaga. The visitors came close
to regaining their lead but Pablo Piatti’s headed effort from the penalty area struck the cross bar and deflected out for a goal kick. In the 75th minute, Leonardo Ulloa was shown a second yellow card of the game and was sent off for a poor challenge
on Pereira http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Eliseu-c12315. The resulting free kick from Apono was headed into the goal by Jose Rondon from close range, to put the hosts in front 2-1. Few minutes later, Almeria went down to nine men when Luna blatantly handled the ball and was shown a straight red
card. Malaga scored deep into the second half as Rondon played a superb through ball to Jimenez Juanmi, who finished it past the goalkeeper to seal the game at 3-1.
Malaga will take on Real Madrid in their next fixture on 3rd March, while Almeria play Racing Santander the same day.
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