The curse of La Rosaleda and another controversy with the VAR

Martín Navarrete: “It's offside”. The former international referee explained, in his usual post-match column in Diario Sur, that the first Cartagena goal scored by Álex Gallar had to be annulled by offside. “I will never understand, no matter how much they explain, how 1-1 can be considered valid with four players in position and influence.” It refers to José Ángel, Rubén Castro, Carlos David and Andújar. A play that was also questioned by the Movistar commentator, coach José Luis Oltra. It was reviewed by the VAR from the VOR room. In Malaga nobody was satisfied. Lately technology does not seem to behave well with the people of Malaga.

The torture of playing at La Rosaleda. Malaga leaves everything it wins at home. Analyzing the matches of the Blue and White team in 2020 at La Rosaleda we find this balance: 19 games played, eight won, six tied and five lost. Looked at like this, we could say that not so bad. But it is that the data of this course are shooting bad. Two wins, three draws and another three losses. Only one point out of the last 12. On the contrary, far from ‘La Bombonera he has taken 16 points. That is why the feeling after Saturday's defeat against Cartagena is silly-faced. “There is not much difference between playing at home and away now due to the absence of an audience.” But it is striking. Without an audience, Málaga plays better away from the Costa del Sol. Detail to analyze.

Plague of injuries and penalties. Málaga, and let's touch wood, is one of the teams that is better standing out with the damn coronavirus pandemic. Six casualties against Cartagena and some of them disturbing. Pablo Chavaría, who served a sanction for accumulating reprimands, has physical problems although there is time for him to reach the 13th against Almería. Jairo and Escassi, three-quarters of the same. Hicham looks like he's about to be summoned. This is very long. A marathon

What about Caye Quintana. The success in the offices did not transfer to the field. The Competition Committee suspended in a precautionary way the sanction match that Caye Quintana had to fulfill after his expulsion against Lugo. But that does not mean that the punishment has prescribed. This week it can be ratified or archived. See what happens.

Present and future by Yanis Rahmani. Malaga has until May to execute a preferential option that it has negotiated with Almería to stay with Yanis Rahmani if ​​he pays one million euros. These types of pacts, the aforementioned and famous preferential options, are rarely executed. It is very difficult for Málaga to pay a million, unless it had an immediate resale as Levante did a few years ago when it bought Felipe Caicedo for one million euros (from Sporting de Portugal) and sold him at once to Lokomotiv Moscow for eight million euros. Maybe over there …

And is aware. Yanis, one of the players who receives the most fouls, was booked. Fourth yellow that makes him pass to the club of those warned of sanction along with Matos and Luis Muñoz.

We continue with the debate of the goalkeepers. Sergio Pellicer kept his binary rotation even and, for the second game in a row, he lined up Juan Soriano. We must understand that next Sunday the 13th Dani Barrio will play again.

The reality in Malaga. Pellicer said it as soon as the game ended. “Here we go from everything to nothing in 20 or 30 minutes. We came from doing a very complete game (in Fuenlabrada) and each game is titanic.

The minutes concedes the goal to Cristian Rodríguez. Málaga's first goal rose to the scoreboard thanks to a great shot from the Jerez player early on. The ball entered the goal after hitting the crossbar and bouncing off Marc Martínez's back. In some forums there was talk of own goal. The minutes cleared us of doubts. Goal by Cristian Rodríguez.