Malaga Insiders

Matt spent the past week travelling to Andorra and then - via some days in Barcelona and Tarragona - to Villarreal to take in two Málaga away days in the space of one week. Plus, he made a pilgrimage to watch a former Spanish great play for CD Castellon.  He decided to take his ‘Vamos a…’ podcast on the road to record his road trip.

Matt has more success this time around, as he finally gets to see Málaga win away from home, as the team triumphed in the very yellow surroundings of Villarreal's estadio. A great game and great atmosphere from the Malaguistas. Then Matt went off on a pilgrimage to see former Swansea great and Leeds cult hero Pablo Hernández play for 3rd tier Castellon, where he was unsurprised to find some Leeds fans on a similar pilgrimage.

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Matt spent the past week travelling to Andorra and then - via some days in Barcelona and Tarragona - to Villarreal to take in two Málaga away days in the space of one week. Plus, he made a pilgrimage to watch a former Spanish great play for CD Castellon.  He decided to take his ‘Vamos a…’ podcast on the road to record his road trip.

In Part 1 he heads to the lovely, mountainous nation of Andorra to watch Málaga lose 1-0 at FC Andorra. You can expect some football chat, but instead you can expect more things like him having a theoretical chat with his 14-year-old self, debating which Málaga player would be the best to go on holiday with, spilling a beer over a 10-year-old’s head and drunken Spanish chat in a small bar in Tarragona with a man named Francisco,  plus much more - although not much more insightful.

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In this episode we bring you the latest Málaga CF news and we talk about the boring loss against Andorra. We also look ahead to this weeks match against Villarreal B on good Friday.. will it be a good friday? 

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Just like the design on Leganés’ away shirt at La Rosaleda, the sun may be setting on Málaga’s aspirations to stay up, but the sun isn’t down quite yet, as this past Monday night they battled to a 2-0 win against an out-of-form Leganés. And they really did battle in a tough game which provided us with plenty of talking points for this week’s pod. Plus, after a week of international football, Málaga travel abroad this week too, as they cross the border into the beautiful and diminutive land of Andorra this coming Sunday to take on FC Andorra. Of course, Andorra is famous for its mountains and Málaga still have their own mountain to climb to get 3 points on the road and hopefully continue climbing up the league. 

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A draw, a good performance and still ten points from safety - no you aren’t reading about last game week, but instead Málaga find themselves in the exact same position as the last matchday - except now they are a game closer to Judgement Day of course. This time Málaga took the game to Levante at La Rosaleda in a feisty 0-0 draw - we looked back at that Friday night game and poured over Málaga’s performance, before we poured over the referee’s performance. From opening the Jornada to closing the next Jornada as Málaga’s next game sees Leganes come down to La Rosaleda. Another big game for us discuss.

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Málaga take another step closer to the abyss as another game passes by with Málaga still ten points from safety. However, it was a good performance from Málaga out in Gran Canaria against high flying Las Palmas - and, of course, there was a superb debut from our latest boy wonder: Alex Calvo. We go again this Friday night at La Rosaleda with another high flyer coming to town, this time in the form of Levante UD. We reviewed the Las Palmas game and previewed this Friday night’s game, as well as looking at this week’s news, which again features rumours of a Qatari takeover.

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After the loss against Racing we are feeling down, but miracles do happen. Chris and Alex review the match against Racing Santander and joined by friend of the Guiricast Las Palmas Matt we preview the match against Las Palmas… do you believe in Miracles? 

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Matt headed to La Rosaleda with Atherton Collieries' finest, Emil and Emma, in tow for Málaga's big crunch match against Racing...it was a Genaro crunch that ruined the game for Málaga though as his tackle put Málaga down to ten and ultimately set them on their way to a 1-0 loss. Don't let the football ruin your day though, as Bar Hermanos Madrid was packed with guiris up for a chat this week.

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After the defeat against Granada it’s time for probably the most important match for Malaga so far this season against Racing Santander.  This week we are joined by Racing fan Andy for the preview. 

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The chase is on. Málaga shortened the gap to salvation this week and now sit 5 points away from safety ahead of their trip to Andalusian neighbours Granada. We looked ahead to that game in the final part of this week’s podcast, but I think it’s fair to say the highlight of this week’s pod was looking back and reflecting on a superb performance at La Rosaleda this past Monday night. Málaga finally won one of their ‘must win’ games and win in style they did with a 3-0 victory over Zaragoza at a jubilant La Rosaleda. There were plenty of positives to discuss from that game: great goals, great tackles and Rubén Castro bagging himself a La Liga record.

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