Málaga CF Signs Winger Lago Junior: Insights into His Career and Impact on the Team

Málaga CF has managed to close the signing of Lago Junior, a player in whom many expectations are placed and who comes to amend one of the errors in the planning of the summer: the absence of pure wingers. And that in the summer market the incorporation of him was already pursued, but the performance that he offered in preseason with RCD Mallorca opened up one last loophole to play in Santander League.

But, after being one of the players who has counted the least for Javier ‘El Vasco’ Aguirre in this first round, and even falling out of the call in the last two commitments that the vermilion team has played, the Boquero entity has ended up closing its incorporation .

It will be the first time that the winger plays at La Rosaleda at home, but he already knows the blue and white fiefdom very well. And it is that he was the cause of a small crisis that finally ended up suffocating the Malacitano team.

We go back to 2015. With Javi Gracia on the bench and a squad that is increasingly distant from the years of wine and roses not so long ago. Málaga, still in LaLiga Santander, had to be measured to Mirandés in the first round of a Copa del Rey that was still being played over two legs at that time.

The first leg, played in Anduva, resulted in a two-to-one victory in which Álex García put the boar team ahead. Roque Santa Cruz equalized shortly after, before Lago Junior scored in the final stretch of the game.

The Mirandés players celebrate their victory against Málaga in the 2015/2016 Copa del Rey (Photo: LaLiga).

A door was left open for a comeback, but Málaga’s attitude in that second leg at the Martiricos stadium ruined everything. The team did not come out with the intention of achieving it and Lago Junior was in charge of putting the finishing touch with the goal of victory for Mirandés in the 73rd minute.