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Week  41	Malaga	1	v	1	Cadiz
Date 9th June 2007	Hidalgo 85 mins				Acuña 65 mins
	Morales				Velazquez
					Bezares
					Acuña

Team news this week for the last Andalucian derby of the season sees Lucas continuing at left back and Enrique on the right wing, whilst Buades starts in midfield in place of Pablo, Bezares starts in place of Fleurquin and Pavoni starts in place of Miguel Garcia. There were an unusually small number of Cadiz fans, probably less than 100, who had made the journey to the Rosaleda to support los amarillos.

Málaga only needed 1 point to make sure that they would stay in the Segunda A for another season began the game with the clear intention of attacking Cadiz to try and score early and relieve some of the pressure on their players. In particular Morales was prominant in the Cadiz area looking to head the ball past Limia but the experienced keeper easily dealt with all the early balls thrown into the area. Meanwhile Cadiz were looking for the quick break out by using the speed down the wings of Sesma and Enrique and up front the pace of Acuña. After a quarter of an hour the first real effort on goal came from the boot of Hidalgo who fired in a fierce shot that Limia did well to dive and turn round for a corner. From the resultant corner the ball seemed to bounce around in the area like a pinball but thankfully no clear shot on goal came of it and eventually the danger was cleared.

For los amarillos Pavoni and Buades combined well in the centre of the park providing good balls mainly out to Enrique, who fired in a number of good crosses to unsettle the Malaga defence. On one such occasion in the 21st minute the ball eventually fell to Acuña, about 20 yards out and he fired in a great shot past Goitia in the Malaga goal, who stood rooted to the spot, but the linesman had put his flag up for a very tight offside decision, which could have gone either way, but today it went in favour of the home team and the goal was ruled out. The impressive Acuña, who looks like a great buy for the future of the club, kept causing all sorts of problems for the home defense, whether the ball came to him in the air or to his feet and soon he was involved again when he nodded a long ball on, which fell in the area allowing Enrique to run onto the bouncing ball with only the keeper to beat. Enrique got a good head to the ball but he was unable to guide it past Goitia, who managed to palm the ball wide.

In the last minutes of the first half the home team piled on the pressure on the Cadiz goal but the yellow defence and Limia had no real problems coping with all that was being thrown at them.

Within seconds of the second half starting a long ball over the top of the Cadiz defence was misjudged by De Quintana and his attempted clearance glanced off the top of his head and into the path of Morales, who suddenly found himself all alone in the Cadiz box with just Limia in front of him. The young keeper came out quickly and closed the Uruguayan forward down forcing him to shoot quickly but the effort was straight at Limia and he did well to block the shot and clear the danger. The game continued with a lot of rhythm and neither side really dominating the play. The next clear chance fell to Lucas, who has looked good in the few games that he has played, and on this occasion he fired in a great shot that Goitia had to dive to push wide for a corner.

With the play moving from end to end, in the 65th minute a short pass from Sesma square to Acuña, found the youngster on the edge of the area with his back to goal and a Malaga defender tight on his back. He swiftly moved the ball to his right, which gave him half a metre on the defender, swivelled and fired in a low right foot shot past the despairing left hand of Goitia and into the bottom of the net to put the visitors one nil up.

The goal forced Malaga to press harder and, to be fair, they played some very attractive football trying to get back on level terms. Cadiz, however, have always been strong in defence and they were able to cope with all that was coming from the home team. However in the 85th minute all the pressure from Malaga finally brought results when the ball fell to Morales in the area wide of the Cadiz goal, he calmly rolled the ball square to the unmarked Hidalgo who easily slotted the ball home to bring the teams back on level terms. That was how the game ended which gave Malaga the point they needed for survival and at the final whistle the home fans celebrated long and hard as if they had won the league. It was also probably a good result for the few Cadiz fans as a victory for los amarillos would not have gone down well with the thousands of Malaga fans.

The Team 

                                                                                     Limia

                                          Velazquez            Cesar Caneda           De Quintana         Lucas 

               Enrique(85mins Javi Panes)         Buades (70mins Chico)      Bezares      Pavoni      Sesma

                                                                              Acuña(78mins De Paula)