We go to La Rosaleda where they face this Friday to open the day Málaga and Sporting de Gijón, two teams that fight for the playoff, including Málaga for the direct ascent. Málaga is 4th with 54 points to 4 points of the direct promotion and Sporting is 10th with 45 points to 6 of the playoff that marks Mallorca.
Málaga is a team that is up there because of the individual quality of its staff and because it is a tough and serious team that usually defends well, but for me it is a team that plays quite badly and when it comes to taking the initiative at home suffers a lot, comes from winning in Tarragona in a game where I do not know if he deserved to draw but what I have no doubt is that he did not deserve to win, he was seen at times overcome by a great Nástic and in the end he won with a bouncing goal, luck of the big team we could call him or the small team’s condemnation. Of the last 5 home games of the Malaga have won just 1 game 2-1 against Lugo and then have tied 3 and lost 1, unfortunate data for a candidate for direct promotion.
On the other hand we have the Sporting de Gijón that seemed to stay in no man’s land for a month and a half and that right now has 4 wins in a row and the last in the Asturian derby against Oviedo that makes them arrive with morale through the roof, Sporting is a team that does not mind giving the baton of the game to the rival team away from home and I think that this can be expensive for the people of Malaga who, as they said before when they have to take the initiative, suffer a lot, that added to the individual quality that joins Sporting up with men like the enrachado Álex Alegría, Uros Djurjevic, Aitor García or Carlos Carmona make it a dangerous team that I see very capable of scoring at La Rosaleda.
