three months of ordeal

Málaga won 2-1 over Las Palmas on November 20 and closed matchday 17 with 26 points, one away from the playoff zone. That weekend rounded off a streak of seven wins and two draws in nine home games. Since then they have not stopped accumulating bad results except for the pyrrhic 0-1 victory at bottom team Alcorcón. The team went into a tailspin and to this day it still doesn’t lift its head.

The blue and white ordeal reaches three months. In this period they have disputed 11 league games and Malaga is the worst team in the category if we take the evicted Alcorcón out of the equation. A journey through the desert that took José Alberto López ahead, which has generated important cracks in the locker room and which has led the fans, who on the day of Las Palmas gave the team a spectacular welcome, to a state of maximum indignation .

Since the victory against the canaries, Malaga has only been able to score seven goals and has conceded 23 until reaching a very negative goal difference at this time: -18 (24 in favor and 42 against).

Real Sociedad B, which until Saturday’s game was also a dying team, has added the same six points as Málaga in these last 11 games, although it has better goalscoring records (nine for and 17 against). Others direct rivals today such as Amorebieta or Fuenlabrada have added 13 and 11 points respectively. And teams like Zaragoza (11), Mirandés (11), Lugo (16), Leganés (18) or Burgos (19), who have spent much of the course trying to escape from the lower zone, have added considerably more than the Blue and Whites .

The collapse of Malaga has been absolute. The club pulled Natxo González in search of a reaction that has not arrived in the game or in the results. The team continues to make water in both areas and the vast majority of players are under minimum. “The match is on Monday”, affirmed Manolo Gaspar resoundingly at the beginning of the week. The appointment against Cartagena is key to not having to visit Amorebieta and Fuenlabrada in an even more critical situation.