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There was a great ambience in the derby, but the referee decided to be the main actor in yesterday’s game. Undiano Mallenco’s decisions clearly favoured Deportivo, ater applying different rules to both teams. In a Derby were both teams were leaving everything on the field, the referee’s decision to sent off Cabral conditioned the game, as Celta Coach, Paco Herrera, was forced to add a new Central Defender to the team, replacing Mario Bermejo for debutant Samuel Llorca. This decision affected Park chances to have some more minutes in the game, as Paco Herrera’s original idea was to replace Bermejo by Park in the second half, but the formation went from a 4-4-2 to a 4-4-1 after Cabral’s sent off.

The game started well for Celta, as Mario Bermejo scored early after a good play by Iago Aspas, whose shot, denied by Aranzubia, was taken advantage by Mario to score the first and only goal of the night for Celta. Since that moment, Celta was only able to create danger out of free kicks and a brilliant play by Aspas, whose shot went wide just by inches. Deportivo controlled the midfield and did not let Celta control the ball, and when that happens Celta suffers. Borja Oubina did not have his best game, and normally when the Captain does not appear, Celta finds it very difficult to play the ball. With that scenario, only Deportivo’s softness in attack prevented Celta to get to the half time with a worse result. Deportivo scored in his only one opportunity they had on the first half, after a brilliant play by Juan Carlos Valeron, who assisted Juan Dominguez for the goal.

Curiously in the second half, and after Cabral’s sent off, Celta started dominating the game, with Alex Lopez, MKD and Alex Lopez leading the efforts. Specially Hugo Mallo and Alex Lopez, both Galician and with a good sense of what a derby means, did carry the team the whole game. But referee’s unfairness sanctioning the fouls, let Deportivo play with 11 man until the end of the game, when they should have had at least two players sent off, Ze Castro with a double yellow card, and Carlos Marchena for elbowing Iago Aspas in the head.

But despite a dreadful scenario for Celta, they managed to not only control the game, but also to create the best chances of the game. Iago Aspas had the goal in his boots, but again his shot went inches wide when all Celta fans were already celebrating the goal. The referee also invalidated a Celta goal for offside by Andres Tunez, but the international for Venezuela seemed to be in a valid position, and brilliantly headed the ball to the back of the net.

Chu Young Park came into the pitch with just ten minutes to play, and touched the ball three times, but at that stage of the game, Celta was not dominating the ball and was not able to recover the ball quickly to take advantage of Deportivo’s free spaces.

Obviously the situation was not the best for Park, with just ten men on the field and defending the result or the last 8 minutes. Park will have his chance against Almeria to prove he has his goal scoring capacity intact. A good display in Almeria will surely boost the Korean striker confidence.