Malaga overcomes two penalties and draws in Ipurua

Málaga started a valuable 2-2 draw in Ipurua against Eibar this Saturday, after overcoming two penalties against each other. Eibar is left with seven games in a row winning on their court, their best streak in history, but they could not increase it.

The game started with a few minutes of scoring, but on the first dangerous play Victor Gómez crossed a ball that reached the feet of Gassama, who, with a low and well-placed shot, sent the ball out of Yoel’s reach. One of the worst visiting teams put an Eibar in serious trouble from the beginning that had seven consecutive wins in Ipurua, its best historical streak in Second Division.

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Malaga began to play at ease with that small advantage against a displaced Eibar, who had a hard time getting on the ground. Few ideas in the Garitano box that was entangled in the dense Malacitana defensive network.

When the local team had worse, the referee whistled a penalty in the 23rd minute for a hand from Lombán. Stoichkov threw it down the right near the post and Dani Martin could not stop it. It was the tenth goal of the season for the Andalusian forward.

On the next play, a cross from Expósito reached the feet of Stoichkov, who passed Corpas to his right and the latter crossed the ball very well, scoring his fifth goal and equaling with Expósito as Eibar’s second top scorer of the current campaign. Two magical minutes that turned the unfavorable result for Eibar, something unexpected seeing the development that the match had until that moment,

Stoichkov took the danger again in the 30th minute, with a shot that deflected the Malaga defense and went over the post very little, Málaga tried to react and Paulino with a long shot almost surprised Yoel. The game had entered an uncontrolled dynamic and shortly after Javi Muñoz had it for Eibar with a point-blank header. At the end of the first half, Blanco Leschuk crossed it very well and almost achieved the third for Eibar.

Málaga tried to rebuild their ranks in the second half and came out with a better face than in the last minutes of the first period, in which they were at the mercy of Eibar. But his reaction was cut short by the referee after penalizing a new hand from Victor Gómez in the 52nd minute. It was launched by Exposito who crossed it excessively and went out to the left, Malaga’s breath of relief as it could have been the finishing touch for the visiting team,

In the next play Gassama had the tie with a header near the goal that Yoel stopped well, The match had not just been defined for either team and the shortness of the armory advantage gave wings to Malaga that had hopes of starting something of Ipurua. Jairo from afar with a dry shot tried to surprise Yoel, who stopped well, Málaga kept proposing before Eibar’s retreat, Exposito reactivated the locals with a shot from afar that Dani Martín saved without problems.

Rahmani, who had just taken the field in an individual play, was about to score against his former Málaga team, but his shot went high.

Málaga was hovering around the goal and in the 82nd minute, a Hicham boarding ended with a center at Brandon’s foot that crossed it very well low and away from Yoel, achieving the tie, Until the end the Andalusians’ struggle was to maintain the draw and Eibar seemed to consider it good in view of the quality shown by the rival,