Dennis Mende
Goals:
57. Pizzi
Referees: Teixeira Vitienes
Attendance:
Cards: 19. Aguilar (LCO), 45+1. Santos (LCO), 58. Gama (LCO), 87. Camuñas (LCO) - 31. Gámez (MAL), 36. Weligton (MAL), 48. Monreal (MAL)
Penalty missed:
Deportivo La Coruňa:
Aranzubia - M. Pablo, Marchena, Z. Castro, Evaldo - Aguilar, Bergantiňos - Gama, A. Santos (83. Camuñas), Pizzi - Riki (68. Oliveira)
Subs:
Coach:
Malaga CF: Caballero - Monreal (64. Saviola), Weligton, Demichelis, Gámez - Camacho - Eliseu, Portillo (46. Iturra), Isco, Joaquín (73. Buonanotte) - Santa Cruz
Subs:
Coach:
Subs:
Coach:
Malaga CF: Caballero - Monreal (64. Saviola), Weligton, Demichelis, Gámez - Camacho - Eliseu, Portillo (46. Iturra), Isco, Joaquín (73. Buonanotte) - Santa Cruz
Subs:
Coach:
Referees: Teixeira Vitienes
Attendance:
The next mistake by the Málaga defense and this time Depor scores ! Gámez with a pass into the feet of PIZZI who goes past Demichelis a bit too easily and fires the ball past Caballero!
Deportivo La Coruňa: Aranzubia - M. Pablo, Marchena, Z. Castro, Evaldo - Aguilar, Bergantiňos - Gama, A. Santos, Pizzi - Riki
Málaga CF: Caballero - Monreal, Weligton, Demichelis, Gámez - Camacho - Eliseu, Portillo, Isco, Joaquín - Santa Cruz
Referees: Teixeira Vitienes
Málaga is in a far better situation as 4th in the table with 31 points in 17 games but they are banned from playing international next year due to their financial situation - this season they are qualified for the next round of the Champions League though. Still the team has earned four wins in the last five matches, all of them for the prestige, against Valencia (4-0), in the Andalusian derby against Granada (4-0), the other derby against Sevilla FC (2-0) and even more important against Real Madrid (3-2).
On the table Málaga is in the role of a favourite but the head-to-head record promises a positive outcome for La Coruna. In the last four matches they kept Málaga even scoreless and in their last 10 matches at home Deportivo had a 9-1-0 record against the Andalusians.
Depor has Riki as topscorer with seven points (6+1) and Pizzi with five points (4+1). Málaga's stars are Joaquín with 8 points (4+4) along with Javier Saviola and Roque Santa Cruz with six points each (5+1).