Malaga does not win far by La Rosaleda from April 4, 0-1 in Lugo with a goal from Lombán. Since then the balance is bleak: 12 matches disputed, eight lost and four tied. We will try to analyze some of the reasons why playing away is an ordeal for Málaga.
Many goals conceded, few scored. Málaga have conceded 16 goals in eight starts this season. Two per game. Too many.
No strikers. Chavarría He has been injured again and Sekou does not finish consolidating. Roberto It’s in training and aim high. If a forward does not receive balls, bad business. That is why Malaga is already watching attackers in the next winter market. It also worries the offensive weakness with only six points scored.
Bad from set pieces. Between penalties against, corners and side fouls, five goals conceded. Every time Málaga has to defend a strategy move, they have to start tremble.
Ungenerous arbitrations. Another aspect for the analysis that should not hide its own errors. Escassi it was expelled in Gijón after six minutes and Málaga did not know how to play with one less. On the other hand, the central defender of Cartagena Andújar must have seen the red in this match where Málaga conceded three goals for an exaggerated penalty awarded to Víctor Gómez and two fouls that were not. But of course. The two fouls defended poorly.
The VAR in Huesca. We still do not explain why the famous referee technology did not validate Genaro’s goal with the same criteria of the no less remembered both of Mbappé to Spain. Two points less for those of José Alberto.
The pole of Antoñín. In Oviedo it was played badly, but Malaga had two tremendous occasions; a center-shot from Haitam that crashed off the crossbar and, above all, a shot from Antoñín that hit the post. Bastón went from 1-2 to 2-1 at 89 ‘in a heartbeat. Possibly three points lost.
Absurd disconnections. This happened in Almeria. Iván Martos was expelled. With one more footballer, Málaga left and threw the game in the trash. The matches against Ponferradina and Cartagena they offered an absurd and absent Malaga.
The million dollar question. Why is Malaga reliable in La Rosaleda and painful outside? It is clear that The Rose Garden is a field that squeezes a lot and inhibits to the adversaries and where Malaga grows. But the mentality weakens with the role of visitor. A Malaga lazy, discontinuous, fragile in defensive work, with little capacity for creation and power to perform.
Far from the uptown. The reality is that Málaga, with the fifth highest salary limit in the category, is in the eleventh place. Five points from the sixth place held by Valladolid and six above Leganés, the frontier of relegation. Advancing at a snail’s pace away from the high zone and at the slightest oversight … the tremors.