DEP.LA CORUNA VS MALAGA PREVIEW & PREDICTION
The La Liga’s 31st matchday will open on Friday evening with the absolute basement duel between La Coruna and Malaga. FC Malaga are seventeenth in the table and 11 points behind the saving shore. The hosts are only a place better with 20 points. Both teams were able to celebrate only four victories this season and are facing relegation to the second division. Malaga was on the final day with the 1-0 home win against the fifth-placed Villarreal for an exclamation point. With another success in La Coruna, the “Boquerones” could give the red lantern to the opponent.
La Coruna:
On February 5, 2018, the Dutch former international Clarence Seedorf took over the Spanish first division Real Club Deportivo La Coruna. He is already the third coach at La Coruna this season. But even under the new coach La Coruna could not stop the free fall direction second division. So far Seedorf is still without victory in his term at the Galicians. After two 0: 1 defeats at the start, draws and defeats alternate with Deportivo since Matchday 25. That makes for Seedorf a record of five defeats and three draws.
According to the law of the series, Malaga would now draw again. For 15 games Deportivo waiting for a victory. The last three were on Matchday 15 with a 1-0 at home against CD Leganes. The residue on the saving bank is currently eight meters. The coach tries to continue to spread optimism and not to lose faith in the rescue. After all, they only lost 1-0 to second-placed Atletico Madrid on the final day of the match. But the short result is deceptive. The team is also lifeless under Seedorf like never before. With 61 goals conceded the Real Club has the worst defensive in the league.
Malaga:
With long victorious series also knows the team from Malaga. A total of 14 games had remained the Andalusians without victory in the first Spanish League. With this series, Malaga made it last in last place. But then last Sunday there was a big surprise. Malaga were beaten home by a 1-0 home win against Villarreal, who are fighting to qualify for the Europa League. With the winning goal, left winger Chory Castro was able to end not only the winning series of 14 games, but also the phase of a total of 474 minutes without scoring.
The South Spaniards want to maintain this spark of hope, even if the relegation in a remainder program with games against Real Madrid, Betis Sevilla or against Real Sociedad is still more than unlikely. But maybe you can at least hand in the red lantern. For two games Malaga is unbeaten. Before that they lost at home to FC Barcelona “only” with 0: 2. The attitude and the fighting spirit were right in the last weeks. In the 30 games of the season Malaga could only hit 17 times, that is the negative value in the league. Away, Malaga won only one game and scored six goals. On the other hand, you had to accept 24 goals on the opponent’s place.
PREDICTION: Under 2.5 goals @ 1.68
