1-0 Mallorca earns another life and continues in the fight

Against the classification, against the VAR, against a failed penalty and against a huge goalkeeper. Mallorca surpassed all the elements to score three vital points against Alavés and stay alive in the fight to avoid relegation after a high intensity match in which he returned to exhibit the best of his faces, which is usual in Son Moix.

A great goal by Cucho Hernández, in his best game as a vermilion, burst the Vitorian resistance and gave the team a victory he deserved for his game and his insistence. His enemy, in fact, was left without creating a single clear chance of scoring in the 96 minutes that the morning lasted.

From the start, El Alavés despised diplomacy and threw the pressure up as soon as he put the ball in motion with the object of intimacy to Mallorca and send him a strong message. The team felt self-conscious and for a long time suffered from the oppression of their opponent, who had a percussion on the bands, knowing that they usually bleed out there. Burke broke into the area with Pozo on the first arrival of the game, but luckily his shot did not take goal.

At boot it was all bad news. Until the 15th minute, no red shirts were seen in the opposing field, and as he passed through 27 Lumor he was injured and gave way to the debut of the Brazilian side Leonardo Koutris, who touched the brown to debut before Aleix Vidal. A low shot of Budimir to which Pacheco responded with certainty seemed to foreshadow the change of trend and just three minutes later a header from the Croatian striker himself touched the central Magallán's hand. Pizarro Gómez listened to the VAR, reviewed the play and this time came out white smoke. From eleven meters, Mallorca had a golden opportunity to overcome the resistance of the Alavés, but Salva Sevilla telegraphed his shot and, although he was going hard and down, Pacheco sensed the direction from the beginning and left the entire stadium mute With a spectacular stop.

Despite the mistake of the penalty Mallorca refused to surrender and took his head to face his enemy. To that, Alavés responded immediately with an occasion that Joselu could not transform and with an action on the left wing that ended with an unfortunate shot at Baba's own door that was one step away from finishing on the net. The first part threw the curtain with a shot from far from Febas to which Pacheco responded again with the security that is usual in him.

The second part started with a hand in hand of Lucas Pérez who did not take goal, but from there there was only one team on the field. Vicente Moreno entered Kubo and the Japanese soon showed that he deserves more minutes enabling Dani Rodríguez to beat Pacheco with a shot from above. However, the VAR, to the general surprise, annulled the goal by a nonexistent previous hand of Cucho Hernández.

In normal conditions any team would have gone to the canvas, but Mallorca was redone as a champion and went up until it won its prize. Koutris culminated a collective play with a splendid pass to the penalty spot that Cucho finished off on plate. Pacheco made another superb stop, but this time he could not retain the ball and the Colombian himself, who had already risen from the ground, scored at pleasure.

There were no problems to defend the 1-0 that raises the border of points to 21 and allows to continue dreaming of a small miracle.

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