“We dominated for much of the game, but we need to be more decisive upfront. We’ve improved a lot at the back, but any action can do us a great deal of damage. We must continue dominating, keep insisting and those of us upfront need to do more,” said the Blue and White number ‘11’.

Gallar trusts in the work of the squad. “We are a great team that understands each other well on the pitch. We lack more fluidity when playing at times. Today we tried to be more organised, but it wasn’t to be,” he added.

The forward from Catalonia is now focused on Tenerife. “There’s no other way but to move forward. That’s football. You can get your revenge every week. It hurts for us to lose, we know that we represent a lot of people, and we have a fan base that demands a lot from us, and we like that,” he said, ending with a message based on experience: “This isn’t the start that Málaga dreamed of, but we can reverse the situation. We’re experienced players who can move this situation forward.”