Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Malaga vs Internacional 3 - 0 / Boca vs Malaga 2 - 2 / Malaga vs Grenoble 3 - 0

Malaga continued their unbeaten run after defeating Internacional at La Rosaleda. They started the match brightly and after 30 minutes Bojan headed home from an Apono cross. Bojan scored again 7 minutes later when Luque found Bojan and the latter placed a low shot in the bottom left hand corner.


In the second half Luque saw his shot go just wide and 6 minutes later he was brought down in the box and Sorondo was sent off. From the resuktant penalty Apono scored his 3rd goal of the season.



The club physio reported after the match that Luque had picked up an injury and will miss next match against Boca Juniors.







Week 16 saw Benfica and Sporting close the gap with Malaga to 5 points. Malaga travelled to La Bombonera and did not hesitate to go 2 - 0 up until half time with goals from Cuadrado and Adriano. Malaga were missing many first team players in the likes of Luque, Bojan, Jacobo and Helder Rosario.


In the second half Boca managed to pull one back through Palacio and in the last 3 minutes substitute Figueroa scored the equaliser to the surprise of the visiting fans.











In the last match of the first round, Malaga welcomed Grenoble in a match that saw Luque miss out due to him not being 100%. His replacement Baha lived up to expectations and scored a hat trick. The score could have been greater but Bojan missed a penalty. Therefore Malaga restored their 7 point lead at top after Benfica abd Sporting drew their respective matches.

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