A possible penalty Brian Oliván a Angel Rodriguez not indicated by the referee and who did not review the VAR, set the Mallorcan stadium on fire in the final stretch of the match.
Mallorca is still stuck in Son Moix where it has only added 5 of 18 points at stake, after the victory against Almería, lThe defeats against Betis, Barça and Sevilla, and the draws against Girona and Espanyol.
The Spanish of Diego Martínez won a valuable point in the fifth draw of the season with a surprising goal by Lazo, whose center was poisoned until sneaking through the entire angle of the Serbian goalkeeper Predrag Rajkovic. The Balearic team did not find solutions in the first half to dangerously approach Lecomte’s goal due to the high pressure exerted by the Blue and Whites, who prevented Ruiz de Galarreta and Kang In Lee from they found spaces to enable Kosovar striker Vedat Muriqi.
Aguirre maintained the conservative line of three central defenders (Raíllo, Valjent, Copete), giving up a more offensive system, with another striker accompanying Muriqi, a drawing that gave him great results in the victory against Valencia at the Mestalla. Espanyol had no problem stopping the local attack and even disputed possession of the ball; He also had the clearest chances. Javi Puado (min. 32) and Edu Expósito (min. 33) were very close to opening the scoring, although the former’s shot went wide, and the latter’s shot was deflected by Rajkovic for a corner.
The Mallorcan players lost their right-back, Pablo Maffeo, due to injury (min. 26), one of their fittest players. He was replaced by the Uruguayan Gio González, who not only entered the game very well, but also set up the goal for Muriqi as soon as the second half began. GOzález won the baseline for his band and enabled the Balkan striker to score the sixth goal of his private account this season at will with his right leg.
The vermilion goal forced the parakeets to open their lines. Coach Diego Martínez looked for solutions – Aleix Vidal and José Carlos Lazo entered -, just at the moments when the locals attacked the most. Jaume Costa (min. 60) He finished high when he was inside the area and in an unbeatable position to sentence the match.
In those moments, Mallorca’s dominance was unquestionable; In addition, Aguirre brought in the Senegalese Amath Ndiayé in place of Dani Rodríguez to reinforce the attack. When everything was looking in favor of the Majorcans, Lazo appeared, ten minutes after having entered the field to surprise Rajkovic with a center from the left that was poisoned by a surprised Serbian goalkeeper, who remained standing, without hitting anything . The tie silenced Son Moix and it took the team several minutes to recover from the blow. Even so, he forced a play in which Ángel asked for a penalty after being knocked down by Oliván in the final stretch of the match, which the referee did not appreciate as such, nor did the VAR intervene. The fiery protests of Aguirre and Maffeo, the latter was already on the bench, cost them red cards in the final moments of the match.
Datasheet:
1 – Mallorca: Rajkovic; Maffeo (Gio Gonzalez, 28th min), Raillo, Valjent, Copete (Angel, 86th min), Costa; Baba, Ruiz de Galarreta, Kang In Lee (Antonio Sanchez, 86th minute), Dani Rodriguez (Amath Ndiayye, 65th minute); Muriqi.
1 – Espanyol: Lecomte; Óscar Gil, Sergi Gómez, Cabrera, Oliván; Darder, Vinicius Souza, Expósito (Lazo, min. 61); Braithwaite (Barek, min. 82), Joselu and Puado (Aleix Vidal, min. 61).
goals: 1-0, min. 47: Muriqi; 1-1, min. 70: Lasso
Referee: Diaz de Mera (C. Castilian-Manchego). He expelled coach Javier Aguirre with a red card and Pablo Maffeo on the bench. He admonished the locals Ruiz de Galarreta (min. 46), Gío González (min. 75), Valjent (min. 94); to the visitor Sergi Darder (min. 78).
incidents: Match corresponding to the twelfth day of LaLiga played at the Visit Mallorca Estadi in front of 13,982 spectators.
