Conspiracy, say Malaga after bitter defeat

 Malaga suggested more than luck may have been against them in Tuesday's last-gasp defeat at Borussia Dortmund that cruelly denied the Champions League debutants a place in the semifinals.

The Qatar-owned club were leading the quarterfinal, second leg 2-1 as the game went into stoppage time before Dortmund, who were held to a 0-0 draw in last week's first leg in Spain, first equalised and then grabbed a 93rd-minute winner.

Television replays showed several players from the Bundesliga side in offside positions in the build-up to the third goal and normally restrained Malaga coach Manuel Pellegrini slammed the match officials.

"On this occasion we could not, or they did not want us to, get through," Pellegrini told a news conference. "After we went 2-1 ahead there was no refereeing," the Chilean added.

"They forced us back with elbows and shoves. There were two sendings off that were not given, a double offside in the third goal which should not have counted.”

The club's director general, Vicente Casado, told reporters on Wednesday before flying back to Spain with the squad that Malaga would file a written complaint with soccer's European governing body UEFA about the refereeing.

Winger Joaquin, who put Malaga ahead in the 25th minute, and club owner Sheikh Abdullah Al Thani, a member of the Qatar royal family, were more outspoken.  In a series of tweets on his official Twitter feed soon after the final whistle, Al Thani blamed the defeat on "racism" and called on governing body UEFA to launch an inquiry.

Joaquin suggested UEFA president Michel Platini may have had something to do with the defeat. Platini is deeply unpopular in Malaga after UEFA slapped a ban on the club from competing in continental competition from next season due to delays in payments to creditors.

"We suspect Platini and all the rest of them who are involved," Joaquin told Spanish radio.