Muñiz’s Málaga has got off to a superb start at home this 2018/19 season. The team has accumulated six victories out of six games, with 10 goals scored and just one conceded, from a penalty. The ‘victims’ of this lightning start; Alcorcón (1-0), Tenerife (1-0), Córdoba (3-0), Rayo Majadahonda (1-0), Albacete (2-1) and, yesterday, Numancia (2-0). Blanco Leschuk, with six goals, has been the team’s top scorer in front of the fans.
On a European level, MCF is the only team in the major European second division leagues to count their number of victories by the number of matches. In regard to the top flight, the lads equal PSG with Neymar, Mbappé and company, as well as Lille, teams competing in the Ligue 1 in France. Both sides have accumulated another ‘full house of six’ at their home grounds. In the English Premier League, Guardiola’s Manchester City have won their five home games, whilst in LaLiga Santander, only RCD Espanyol have won consistently at home, on four occasions. In addition, Borussia Monchengladbach got the season underway with a ‘4 out of 4’ against their German Bundesliga rivals. In Italy’s Serie ‘A’, Juventus, Naples and Fiorentina are the best teams at home, having achieved four wins and one draw out of five games.
Club statistics and historic records:
- The current Málaga, under the ‘MCF’ name, has already surpassed the previous record of home wins in the Second Division. It was held by the team that secured the last promotion to the elite in the 2007/08 campaign, also with Muñiz at the helm. They won the first five league games and suffered defeat in the sixth, against Numancia (0-1).
- The current run improves on that obtained by Málaga CF in 2011/12 in the First Division. The team, with Pellegrini as coach, clinched five consecutive victories at Martiricos, although it wasn’t at the start of the competition. They were achieved between matchdays 21 and 29 in a year that ended with the team in the highest position in the standings in the Club’s history (4th).
- In the 1994/95 season, the new-born Málaga CF won their six first games at La Rosaleda, in Third Division Group IX. In the seventh match they drew with Linares (1-1). That team achieved a long-suffering, memorable promotion to Second B.
- Club Deportivo Málaga, and in the 1945/46 season, all home games ended in victory in the Third Division. There was a total of 18 triumphs, between the regular league, intermediate stage and final stage. A virtually unbeatable record.