Marco Ruben opened the scoring for the home side, but the goal of the night was scored from Cani, who fired home from the halfway line, a distance of over 50 meters.

Joan Capdevila and Gonzalo Rodriguez scored their side's other goals.

Real Sociedad took a shock 4-0 away to Getafe to end a run of four defeats. Xabi Prieto opened the scoring from the penalty spot, before Antoine Griezmann doubled the lead for the Basques. Midfielder Mikel Aranburu ended up the game with two more goals in the second half.

Sporting Gijon took a lot of the pressure off coach Manuel Preciado with a 2-0 win at home to Hercules. David Barral and Nacho Casis scored for Sporting

Gabi Fernandez's penalty gave Zaragoza an important 1-0 win over Levante.

Meanwhile Javi Martinez and Iker Muniain scored early goals to help Athletic Bilbao to a 2-1 win at home to Racing Santander.

Ivan Bolado scored for Racing with 15 minutes remaining, but Athletic held on to move into sixth place in the table.

Finally Javier Callejon scored twice as fifth placed Espanyol kept up the pressure on the top four with an impressive 2-1 win in Sevilla, with the home side's goal coming in injury time thanks to Alvaro Negredo.

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