Malaga 1-2 Real Madrid: Player Ratings

Real Madrid

Isco refused to celebrate after scoring against his former club

Keylor Navas - 6/10

The Costa Rican made a good call of coming off his line to deny Malaga their goal following an error from Casemiro.

Dani Carvajal - 6/10

Carvajal had a fairly decent game and was lucky not to receive a yellow card despite making three fouls.

Sergio Ramos - 7/10

Ramos put in 11 successful long balls and had a glorious chance of scoring himself when he popped up in the box following a Real Madrid counter-attack but his first touch let him down.

Jesús Vallejo - 6/10

Vallejo's error towards the closing stages due to his bad judgment of the ball, led to Rolan scoring for Malaga and Real Madrid losing their clean sheet.

Theo Hernández - 7/10

Hernandez got a rare start and did well, filling in for Marcelo putting in two successful crosses finishing the game off with a pass completion rate of 91%.

Isco - 9/10

The former Malaga man scored a sublime free kick lifting the ball over the five-man wall with a change in direction that led to the ball ending up in the bottom right corner.

Isco was given a free role in which he thrived, putting an all-round performance popping up in different areas of the attacking third and also got the assist for the second goal.

Casemiro - 7/10

Started Real's attack after recovering the ball and scored the second goal of the game killing Malaga's minor chances of making some sort of a comeback.

Mateo Kovacic - 6/10

Defensively, Kovacic made four successful tackles and also had two attempts at goal but was dispossessed on four different occasions.

Marco Asensio - 6/10

Asensio had a quiet game as he did not have much of an influence or contribution in Real Madrid's attacks and also misplaced some passes

Karim Benzema - 7/10

The Frenchman created numerous chances for himself and as usual, his participation in the Real Madrid attacking build-up plays was pinpoint and was one the key elements that led to Real's second goal.

Lucas Vázquez - 6/10

Vazquez did his job efficiently as per the needs of the manager putting in a satisfactory performance.

Substitutes

Dani Ceballos - N/A

Replaced Marco Asensio in the 66th minute.

Borja Mayoral - N/A

Took the place of Isco in the 71st minute.