La Liga round-up: Eibar extend run, Alaves out of bottom three
Thursday 21 December 2017 23:29, UK
On-loan Barcelona forward Munir El Haddadi made amends for a horror miss as Alaves beat Malaga 1-0 to climb out of the bottom three.
Munir, with an open goal, somehow hit the crossbar from inside the six-yard box five minutes into the second half at Estadio Mendizorrotza in Thursday's late game.
But the 22-year-old made no mistake 10 minutes later when he coolly volleyed in Ruben Duarte's flick-on to take his side up to 17th and four points clear of their opponents.
Meanwhile, Takashi Inui scored twice as Eibar extended their unbeaten La Liga run to six games with a 4-1 win at home to Girona.
The hosts went ahead inside a minute when Inui cut in from the left and fired low into the near corner. It was 2-0 just nine minutes later after Charles headed in full-back Jose Angel's cross from the left.
David Timor curled in a 30-yard free-kick after 26 minutes to reduce the deficit but Inui's second of the game nine minutes into the second period put Eibar back in charge.
And Joan Jordan rounded off a crushing home win in stoppage time by converting Ruben Pena's cross from close range.
The victory moved Eibar up to seventh in the table and above Girona, who suffered their first away defeat since September.
