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Santi Cazorla saved Malaga from slipping down from the fourth position of the European League points table. He gave the only goal from the Side of Malaga to draw the match against Osasuna by 1-1.
The outcome of the match meant that Malaga did manage to gather only 8 of the 18 points in their last six games at a stretch. They are now five points ahead of the team in the fifth position. They did have a bad run as they have faced troubles from the games against Valencia, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid respectively.
Malaga was on the back foot on European league football when Francisco Nino of the host team scored the opening goal of the match in the 53rd minute of the match.
Malaga got relief when Santi Cazorlo scored the goal to level the score on the board. But this does not change grim scenario of Malaga as they could fetch a win in their last three games.
Malaga had the greater possession over the match by 10%. All the strikers of Osasuna had fired on Javed Nekounam. Osasuna had started in a great way keeping Malaga in the trailing position. If they had won the game then they would have shared the same position with Levante.
Damia Abella turned down the chance of scoring goal by Santi that occurred after the 34th minute of the start of the game. Few minutes later Nacho Monreal did struck a very good shot that got rebounded from the goalpost making Malaga see some sight of relief.
Manuel Lolo did block the shot taken by Alarcon Isco.
Malaga did take more number of shots than Osasuna. They took 14 compared to the 12 shots taken by the Osasuna strikers. Alvaro cejudo did misplace the shot that he took from the nearby range and it was saved by Carlos kameni.
Osasuna players did set 2 yellow cards compared to the one of the Malaga players. No one in the match did receive a red card.
Timor did attempt to increase the lead by taking a shot that went wide giving a chance to the Malaga’s line-up to place the equalizer goal.
At the 67th minute of the match Santi Cazorla got a chance and he capitalized on it from the 25 yard of the goal post. At the time of stoppage Santi got more than one chance but he could not further capitalized on it leaving the score 1-1.
