Malaga 4 - 0 Leganes: Malaga smack four past Leganes

Posted Monday, October 24, 2016 by PA

Malaga claimed a convincing 4-0 victory over Leganes at La Rosaleda to leapfrog their opponents in LaLiga.

The visitors from the Madrid suburbs made a promising start but two quickfire goals just before half-time, the first a Jony penalty and the second a counter-attack finished by Chory Castro, left them with an awful lot to do.

Sandro Ramirez scored the third in the 58th minute and Ignacio Camacho's header rounded off the scoring in injury time.

Carlos Kameni had to make a smart early save to deny Alexander Szymanowski in the fourth minute and the Malaga goalkeeper was required again to gather Luciano's header from an Omar Ramos cross in the 20th minute.

Malaga started to find a way into the game and Leganes had to be smart to block a Mikel Villanueva header, with Sandro's follow-up effort diverted away for a corner.

The hosts opened the scoring when Pablo Fornals was fouled in the box by Carl Medjani in the 39th minute.

Jony tucked away the penalty, with Leganes goalkeeper Jon Ander Serantes guessing the right way but unable to keep it out.

Two minutes later the hosts added a second from a smart counter-attack.

Sandro claimed the assist as he picked out Chory, who kept his cool and applied a left-foot finish to leave Serantes with no chance.

Leganes made a positive start to the second half with another decent effort from Szymanowski but the game was taken beyond them when Sandro finished off an attack initiated by Roberto Rosales.

Luciano had a goal ruled out for offside in the 66th minute but the hosts added a fourth deep into injury time when Camacho nodded in Duda's cross.