Almería and Granada tied 3-3 in an Andalusian duel in which the Almeria players missed the opportunity to add their first victory in LaLiga, after going 3-0 at half-time with a hat trick in five minutes – between the 41st and the first of added time -, but the Granadans equalized in a crazy second half with a penalty missed by the visitors and a post for each team in the extension.
Luis Suárez, who left the field injured and suffers a fracture in the fibula of his left leg, scored in the 41st, 43rd and 46th minutes, enabled in his three goals by the services of the Belgian Largie Ramazani, but Granada reacted in the second part and, despite Antonio Puertas missing a penalty, Bryan Zaragoza made it 3-1 in another maximum penalty (m.66), Ricard pushed the score further in the 70th and the Albanian Myrto Uzuni achieved the final tie in the 85th.
Both teams achieved the worst possible result for their interests in a reckless match, especially on the part of Almería, which went to half-time with a resounding victory forged by rival fear and success in the last quarter of an hour, with three goals from Luis Suarez. However, the mistakes took their toll in a crazy second half.
At the beginning of the second half, Granada got into the game with the changes. He missed a penalty, in the 55th minute, with a knockdown by Baba on Gonzalo Villar that was thrown by Puertas and stopped by Maximiano. The second, whistled by the referee after a small push by Puigmal on Zaragoza, in the 63rd minute, was taken advantage of by the young man from Malaga to close the gap.
The 3-1 was a low blow for Almería, who began to doubt and Puertas signed the birth of the 3-2 with a ride towards the area and a final pass for the full-back Ricard Sánchez, who, entering from the right, crossed the ball inside. Paco López saw ‘blood’ and put Uzuni on the field, who in the 85th minute took advantage of a long ball from Miguel Rubio to tie and even seek victory.
The Granada coach, Paco López, explained the crazy match between his team and Almería by assuring that football “is the ‘repera’, to say the least.” “To do an analysis, I really can’t understand that we were so superior in the game, like 85 minutes, and that 7 minutes of the first half penalized us so much,” he said.
3 – Almeria: Luis Maximiano; Arnau Puigmal (Well, m.83), Kaiky, Chumi, Akieme; Lopy, Edgar (d.33); Leo Baptistao (Embarba, m.48), Melero, Ramazani (Sergio Arribas, m.48); Luis Suarez (Cone, m.83).
3 – Granada: André Ferreira; Ricard, Ignasi Miquel (Miguel Rubio, m.46), Torrente, Carlos Neva; Antonio Puertas (Uzuni, m. 72), Gumbau, Sergio Ruiz (Gonzalo Villar, m.46), Jose Callejón (Álvaro Fernández, m.46); Bryan Zaragoza, Lucas Boyé (Weissman, m.88).
Goals: 1-0, M.41: Luis Suárez. 2-0, M.43: Luis Suárez. 3-0, M.46: Luis Suárez. 3-1, M.66: Bryan Zaragoza, penalty. 3-2, M.70: Ricard Sánchez. 3-3, M.85: Uzuni.
Referee: González Fuertes (Asturian Committee). He warned the local Arnau Puigmal (m.64) and on the visiting side his coach, Paco López (m.68), and Gonzalo Villar (m.87).
Incidents: Match corresponding to the eighth day of LaLiga EA Sports, played at the Power Horse Stadium before 14,264 spectators, including about 400 Granada fans.
