Oviedo 3 - Málaga 2

Oviedo: Esteban; Keita, Danjou, Martinovic, Rabarivony (Ivo 50'); Amieva (Möller 65'), Onopko, Tomic, Iván Ania (Rubén Reyes 55'); Losada, Oli. 4-4-2.
Málaga: Contreras; Rojas, Roteta, Bravo, Valcarce; Rufete (Zárate 89'), De los Santos, Movilla, Agostinho (Martín Rivas 67'); Darío Silva, Dely Valdés. 4-4-2.

Team changes: Oviedo: Rabarivony, Iván Ania for Ivo, Rubén Reyes / Málaga: Rojas, Roteta for Larrainzar, Zárate.

Goals:
0-1. 04. Darío Silva. From close up after defence failed to clear ball.
1-1. 10. Oli. Header unmarked in area after Amieva free kick on right.
1-2. 31. Bravo. Bent free kick over wall and into top corner of net.
2-2. 89. Onopko. Powerful header after cross from Keita on right.
3-2. 93. Tomic. Drove low free kick into net from outside of area.

Oviedo hung on to their unbeaten home record by the skin of their teeth in this match, coming from behind in the last minutes of the match to steal away three vital points. Málaga had taken the lead twice in an action packed first half, first of all through Darío Silva after a Dely Valdés through ball had beaten everyone, then, after Oli had levelled the scores with his sixth of the season, with a well struck free kick from their captain, Bravo. Radomir Antic had thrown everything forward in the second half, bringing on a third forward Möller, and with only a minute of ordinary time remaining, the bald head of Onopko rose above the packed defence to head home Keita's cross. The crowd went delirious, but there was more to come, and in the third minute of stoppage time Tomic smashed a free kick low into the back of the net.

Málaga can be justified to feel hard done by, especially as referee Pérez Burrull disallowed a goal by Dely Valdés in the second half for offside. Dely was returning to Oviedo for the first time since his summer transfer to the Andalucian club, and the crowd gave him the Figo treatment, accusing him of being a money grabber for leaving them. The Oviedo players didn't feel that way though, and Esteban explained what a good chap Dely was to the local press before the kick off. The Oviedo keeper didn't have the same sentiments though for Dely's strike partner Darío Silva, and there was a bust up between the two in the tunnel after the match, Esteban telling reporters afterwards that he had been insulted throughout the game and had even received a kick from the Uruguayan 'in his parts'.

With this win Oviedo have taken 19 of their 20 points at home, with six victories at the Nuevo Tartiere stadium in a row after their opening draw against Las Palmas. They are now comfortably placed in eighth position, only two points away from Rayo Vallecano in fourth. Their away record still needs some attention though, and they go to play Athletic Bilbao without Keita, who picked up a fifth yellow card in this match. Málaga drop a place to fourteenth, but are once again having a reasonable season now that their injury problems are mainly over.