Sevilla 4 - Valladolid 0

Sevilla: Notario; Njegus, Javi Navarro (Prieto 46'), Pablo Alfaro, David; Gallardo, Podestá, Casquero, Fredi; Reyes (Víctor 75'), Moisés (Toedtli 57'). 4-4-2.
Valladolid: Ricardo; Torres Gómez, Ricchetti, Peña, Tena, Marcos; Eusebio (Fernando 46'), Jesús, Oscar (Fernando Sales 65'), Luis García (Chema 72'); Tote. 5-4-1.

Team changes: Sevilla: Gallardo for Luis Gil / Valladolid: Luis García for Cuauhtèmoc Blanco.

Goals:
1-0. 31. Moisés (penalty). After Reyes was brought down in area by Torres Gómez.
2-0. 56. Reyes. Took ball from own half to run through defence and score.
3-0. 68. Casquero. First time shot in area after David laid ball back from left.
4-0. 81. Casquero. Drove ball back in to net after defence cleared Podestá cross.

Sevilla moved back up to the top half of the table with their best result of the season, a 4-0 victory over Valladolid. The Andalucian side started strongly, with Fredi and Gallardo creating danger down the wings, and they were awarded a penalty on the half hour mark when Ricchetti chopped down Spanish under-19 striker Reyes. With Olivera still on international duty with Uruguay, Moisés was charged with taking the kick, which he converted for his sixth of the season. Valladolid came out after the break determined to make amends, and Fernando, who had just come on at half time, brought a good save out of Notario from a free kick.

But then the visitors were left with ten men after Torres Gómez picked up a second yellow card, and soon afterwards Reyes scored Sevilla's second with a fabulous run from his own half, Gallardo getting himself into trouble with the authorities for a somewhat unorthodox celebration (Reyes still has the embarrassing bite mark on a sensitive part of his body to prove it). There was brief flurry of resistance as substitute Chema tested Notario, but Casquero scored twice to give his side their first home victory in four games. It was a match which Valladolid would like to forget, and only their Spanish international keeper Ricardo kept the result from being a scandal. They drop to twelfth, still only five points below the European spots but perhaps more relevantly three above the drop zone.