Little point in playing well if you then go and throw it all away with defensive errors, which is exactly what the Blue and Whites did on Sunday, losing 2-0 to Mallorca.
This latest defeat keeps Málaga in the bottom three.
Villarreal kept up their challenge in La Liga with a 3-0 win over Zaragoza, Marcos Senna, Cazorla and Nilmar scoring the goals.
CD Nerja are up to seventh in the Primera Andaluza Grupo 3 after a 1-o victory over CD Rincón and are now just 9 points adrift of leaders San Pedro.