Al 'Gato' Romero has fewer lives left, but who is actually 'sad and blue' is the Venezuelan striker Adalberto Peñaranda. The attacker since he arrived in the winter market has hardly counted for the Málaga coach.
Peñaranda has disappeared from Romero's line-ups and has now gone 40 days without playing a single minute. And this despite the fact that Sandro is injured and Michael Santos is not having a good time.
His balance is 20 minutes against Real Sociedad and 78 against Real Madrid, the match he started. From then on the emptiness. Peñaranda began to disappear from the plans of the 'Gato'. Charles was available again and the Vinotinto was out of the 18 chosen against Osasuna, Espanyol and Villarreal, saw from the bench the victory against Las Palmas and defeat in Ipurúa and was once again one of the discards against Betis.
The reasons? Several. Peñaranda landed at Málaga away from his state in an ideal way. But after many weeks his level in training is not convincing at all Romero, who has already put him ahead, in addition to Charles and Michael Santos, En-Nesyri, who did have a few minutes in the final stretch of the game against the Betis