La Liga round-up: Deportivo leave it late for opening-day win
Saturday 20 August 2016 00:15, UK
Deportivo La Coruna went to the top of the early La Liga standings with a 2-1 home win over Eibar.
Lucas Perez won a late penalty when he went to ground after a push in the back from David Junca and got up to tuck it away himself in the 87th minute.
Depor had gone behind in the 55th minute when former Wigan defender Ivan Ramis rose highest at the near post to head in a corner, though home goalkeeper German Lux should have kept it out.
Pedro Mosquera equalised for the hosts (69) as he stretched to volley home Raul Albentosa's free-kick and Perez then kept his nerve to slot home the winner from the spot.
In the season's opening match, former Arsenal midfielder Fran Merida secured a point for promoted Osasuna in a 1-1 draw against Malaga at La Rosaleda.
Playmaker Juanpi gave Juande Ramos' Malaga the lead in LaLiga's opening match of the 2016-17 campaign with a neat 56th-minute goal but substitute Merida, who moved to Pamplona from Huesca this summer, levelled the scores with seven minutes to go.
