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On Thursday evening in the matches of the XXXIII round of the Spanish "Liga BBVA", the opportunity to rise to the third place in the tournament table was not taken advantage of by the "Malaga" club.
Manuel Pellegrini's disciples were forced to acknowledge the superiority of the "Villarreal" footballers with a score of 2-1 in the last minutes of the match played away.
The victory for the "Submarines" made it easier for them in the battle for survival - with six rounds left until the end of the championship, they are already seven points away from eighteenth place.
In other matches, "Mallorca" and "Sevilla" crushed their opponents.
Results:
"Villarreal" 2 - 1 "Malaga" 65' [0 - 1] S. Cazorla 84' [1 - 1] M. Senna (from 11 m. penalty) 90' [2 - 1] H. Perez 90' C. Kameni ("Malaga") sent off from the field
Santander "Racing" 0 - 3 "Mallorca" 1' [0 - 1] E. Nsue 47' [0 - 2] G. Castro 53' [0 - 3] A. Alfaro
"Sevilla" 3 - 0 "Zaragoza" 11' [1 - 0] F. Fazio 29' [2 - 0] A. Negredo 44' [3 - 0] A. Negredo
