Rayo Vallecano 3 - Racing Santander 1

Rayo: Etxeberria; Mario, Corino, Onopko, Mainz, Graff; Julio Alvarez, Pablo Sanz (Michel II 35'), Peragón (Camuñas 85'); Quevedo; Bolic (Dorado 65'). 5-3-1-1.
Racing: Lemmens; Pineda, Moratón, Juanma, Sietes; Ismael, Nafti; Pablo Lago (Ceballos 19'), Munitis, Regueiro (Benayoun 55'); Bodipo (Diego Alonso 63'). 4-2-3-1.

Team changes: Rayo: Mario, Quevedo for De Quintana, Tal / Racing: No change.

Goals:
1-0. 18. Julio Alvarez (penalty). Twice taken kick after Peragón fouled by keeper.
1-1. 45. Munitis. Following up after Ismael penalty tipped onto bar by keeper.
2-1. 50. Julio Alvarez (penalty). After Michel II felled on edge of area.
3-1. 92. Julio Alvarez. Finished off after Camuñas ran through and laid ball back.

Rayo Vallecano recorded their first win of the new season thanks to a hat-trick from on-loan Real Madrid youngster Julio Alvarez. Two of those goals came from the penalty spot though in a game in which referee Medina Cantalejo awarded three controversial spot kicks, the first of which came when Rayo's Peragón went down under a challenge from Regueiro and Moratón. Lemmens saved the first shot from Alvarez, but the referee ruled that he had moved off his line and ordered the kick to be retaken. Alvarez made no mistake the second time, and the furious Belgian keeper earned himself two bookings and consequently a sending off for protesting.

Preciado had to take off Pablo Lago to bring on Ceballos, but the ten men got back in the game when Medina ruled that Etxeberría had brought down Bodipo in the area on the stroke of half time. The keeper pushed Ismael's penalty kick onto the bar, but Munitis nipped in to score on the follow up.

If the first two penalties were questionable, the third shortly after the break was clearly a dive, Michel II falling over Moran's leg on the edge of the area. Still it brought Alvarez his second goal, and in the last minute he made it three for the night after a jinking run by substitute Camuñas to the by-line left him with an easy tap in.