The draw in Las Palmas left a bittersweet residue in the Malaga dressing room. Scepovic's goal in the 78th minute put a step away from a victory that would have been very important to fuel the playoff dream for the Blue and White side. Without Araujo's subsequent goal, Málaga would have finished Matchday 35 five points behind sixth place. The distance, on the other hand, is seven points with 21 remaining to be disputed.
In any case, the trend of the Pellicer team is clearly upward in recent days. After the victories against Lugo and Albacete, he cherished his third consecutive league win for the first time all season. Sporting de Gijón and Rayo Vallecano, tied with 56 points for fifth and sixth places respectively, have a downward trend and that still maintains a thread of hope in the Malaguista dressing room. Of the last 18 points, the Asturians have added five and the Madrilenians, eight.
The distance with the sixth place invites us to think that the objective of sneaking into the promotion playoff is almost a chimera. Players and coaches are aware of the enormous difficulty of the goal, but within the team they resist giving up and they do not completely give up the dream of reaching the first six places. For it must approach the full points in the last seven days. It sounds very very difficult, but Malaga does not throw in the towel.