Espanyol made it three wins out of three as they won 1-0 away to Malaga thanks to a 32 yard goal scored by Pablo Piatti. Malaga forced 18 corners but have now gone 8 games without a win.

Sporting Gijon's future in the top flight is in serious danger as they lost 4-2 at home to Alaves, who rested nine first team regulars ahead of next week's Cup semi-final return leg.

Ruben Soriano put Alaves ahead after nine minutes, and second half penalties from Cristian Santos and Edgar Mendez made it 3-0. Lacina Traore scored for Sporting with six minutes left only for Alexis to almost immediately restore Alaves' 3-goal advantage to render Carlos Castro's second goal for the home side irrelevant.

Real Sociedad's excellent season continues as they came back from a goal down to defeat Osasuna in a rain-swept derby by 3-2.

Raul Navas, Carlos Vela and Juanmi got on the scoresheet for the home side to leave Osasuna with just 10 points from 21 games.

Finally, Eibar inflicted a humiliating 4-0 home defeat on Valencia to end the team's timid recovery under Voro Gonzalez.

Valencia were reduced to 10 men early in the game as Carlos Soler was given his marching order. Eibar showed no mercy as Sergi Enrich scored a brace, Adrian converted a penalty and Dani Garcia hit the net with a spectacular volley. Enditem

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