Real Mallorca have drawn two all in their visit to Nastic Tarragona in a game that the islanders have come back twice. The game has been full of fauls and intense tackles given the need for points of the local side.
The game started off with both teams fighting for possesion and with the defensive lines quite high up off their usual position. The ball was rather moving in the centre of the pitch. Both teams took precautions. Mallorca gave the first warning when in the 12th minute scored, but the goal was disallowed because of a clear offside.
In the following minutes, the local side rolled back and parked the bus. That forced the Reds to use long balls after Oscar Diaz or Brandon. However, the most defining moment of the first half, was a direct free-kick that Juan Muñiz curled in superbly past Santamaria. The crowd went crazy.
The goal against them woke up the visiting side and some minutes later, in the 25th, a cross by Campabadal was headed onto the topcorner bar by Lago Junior. Vazquez men were trying and little after Damia took a long range shot that the home keeper Dimitrievski answer with a fine save.
The number of occasions was balanced in the final minutes before the break, when in a blurry moment in the defensive after many deflections, Joan Oriol sent a header little wide off the post.
The second half could not start better for the Majorcan side and practically in the first play of the period, Brandon dribbled, banged the ball with his right foot and put it into the garlic bag. Right after the referee disallowed a goal for the home side because of a supposed offside. Those were frenetic passages of the game.
The game became box-to-box and defensive work weaked on both sides as match tempo increased, yet without much scoring success. Mallorca wanted to play with the rival’s ansiety and tried to diminish the game pace through long possessions. But the local side, hungry of points were more direct.
In the 67th minute Jean Luc Assoubre received a ball down the wing and after feinting the defence, whipped in a terrific low shot that made it two one in the electronic scoreboard. Vazquez boys pushed up and in the 73th minute they had the chance to call a draw after a heading from free-kick cross went out by inches.
But the Reds failed to surrender and Brandon, again, sparked some hope as he headed in a 86th minute screamer in the small box after a clinical side cross by Moutinho. It was a two all draw in the screens. Barely did the last minutes see any interesting football – only fauls, protests and cards did appear.
