Two matches on Saturday evening, both affecting top teams, Sevilla and Tenerife. Sevilla extended their lead at the top of the second division with a 3-0 victory over Extremadura. Defender Héctor scored two goals in a three minute period in the first half and Víctor added a third from the penalty spot after the break to keep their unbeaten home record and take them up to 40 points, four ahead of neighbours Betis and five ahead of Tenerife. The Canary Island side are losing ground rapidly after defeats in their last two games, and they could only draw against a Lleida side who were reduced to nine men after Lusarreta and Garrido were sent off at the beginning and end of the second half respectively. Lleida had taken the lead through David Díez in the first half, but a last minute goal from Luis Gil saved a point against the Catalans, who stay next to bottom in the table. On Sunday Betis drew 1-1 against the only other side unbeaten at home, local rivals Recreativo Huelva. Capi gave the Sevilla based team the lead on the break, but Xisco equalised near the end to take Recreativo up a place to fourth. Betis substitute Gastón Casas was sent off five minutes from the end, only a quarter of an hour after coming on.

Salamanca lost an opportunity to move up to the top spots, falling 0-2 at home to Eibar. Having won three in a row to close in on the leading group they came in to the game with confidence against an Eibar side weakened by the recall of Xavi Alonso and Joseba Llorente to Real Sociedad. However the Basques scored early through Arenaza and closed ranks, and Juan Señor's side could not break through. Then in the last minute of injury time Aguirre made it two as Salamanca threw everything forward. Salamanca drop a place to fifth, still level on points with Recreativo. Atlético Madrid suffered a cup hangover and lost their first game in a month, 1-0 at Sporting, dropping back down the table to fifteenth. Hernández was sent off for the second time in four days and the fourth time this season and Sporting's Ledhiakov followed shortly afterwards. Soto scored for the home side twelve minutes from time, and with most of their rivals drawing, they move up to seventh. Badajoz also saw their nine game undefeated run come to an end losing 2-1 at struggling Getafe. The game seemed to be heading to a draw after Pepín made it all square following Parrado's earlier strike, but Faizulin beat Baines in the last minute to give his side a much needed victory.

In all there were no less than seven low scoring draws, with the games between Jaén and Compostela, Elche and Mucia, and Leganés and Universidad Las Palmas ending 1-1. Jaén had not won at home for over two months, and they were unable to do so against a Compostela team who had won their last two matches to climb out of the relegation zone. The visitors scored through Juanito early on, but Jaén equalised in the second with a Rueda header despite playing with ten men after Milosevic was sent off just after the break. Sendings off a-plenty at Elche, who ended up with nine men against ten for Murcia after referee Moreno Delgado sent off Benja and Méndez in the first half and Elche's Javi Navarro in the second. He also awarded a dubious penalty to the visitors which Aguilar converted to cancel out Changui's second minute goal. It was Murcia's third away win in a row and their first at Elche in over 50 years, and it leaves Jorge D'Alessandro's men down within a point of the relegation spots having not won at home since the end of September.

Bottom side Universidad just missed out on their second win of the season when Julian Ronda levelled the scores for Leganés in the fourth minute of injury time. They seemed to be well on line after Alberto gave them the lead in the first half and then saw their opponents reduced to ten men when Fede Marín got his second yellow card just after half time. Argentina's Romagnoli became the first foreigner to play for Universidad when he came on in the second half. Two goalless draws also in the category this week ,with Albacete versus Córdoba and Levante versus Racing Ferrol ending without any of the goalkeepers being troubled. Albacete and Córdoba lost a bit of ground on the leaders, but both are still in a group of nine teams separated by three points. Albacete have only lost one of their last thirteen home games, whereas Levante have now gone five at their Cuidad de Valencia stadium without a win. Lima missed a penalty for them to let Racing off the hook, but the Ferrol side are still struggling third from bottom in the league.