Gimnastic Tarragona 4 - Espanyol 0

Nàstic: Bizzarri; Calvo, César Navas, Matellán, Marco; Morales (Buades 85'), Generelo; Campano, Pinilla (Carlos Merino 82'), Juan Díaz (Cuéllar 73'); Portillo. 4-2-3-1.
Espanyol: Kameni; Velasco, Jarque (Torrejón 56'), Lacruz, Chica; Rufete, Moisés Hurtado (Jonatas 62'), De la Peña, Riera; Luis García, Tamudo (Pandiani 46'). 4-4-2.

Team changes: Nàstic: Marco, Campano, Pinilla for Mingo, Buades, Cuéllar / Espanyol: Lacruz for Torrejón.

Goals:
1-0. 08. Portillo. Header into net after Juan crossed back in from left of goal.
2-0. 18. Campano (penalty). After Lacruz fouled Portillo inside area.
3-0. 25. Pinilla. At second attempt after Kameni kept out first header.
4-0. 42. César Navas. Got above defence to head Campano corner past keeper.

An extraordinary result in the Catalan derby between bottom club Gimnàstic and Espanyol, the home side running out 4-0 winners to move to within a point of Real Sociedad. All the goals came in the first half, but even before the first one Nàstic should have been in front when referee Pérez Lima ruled out Portillo's strike for what he considered to be a previous foul. Portillo got his name on the scoresheet a couple of minutes later though, heading Juan's cross past Kameni after a long play in the visitors' goalmouth.

Before too long Campano made it two from the penalty spot after Pérez ruled that Lacruz had fouled Portillo, another hotly disputed decision. And there were further protests when Pinilla forced the ball past Kameni at the second attempt for Nàstic's third, the veteran forward appearing to collect the ball in an offside position. Moisés saw an effort fly over the top, and Portillo headed against the bar at the other end, but with the first half coming to an end César Navas got on the end of Campano's corner to head home his side's fourth of the night.

With the game lost Valverde decided to protect his best players, but Navas came close again before Riera finally tested Bizzarri later in the second half. Kameni still had some work to do though before the final whistle put the visitors out of the misery and sent the home fans off dancing in the street. Nàstic move on to twelve points, half of which have come against their opponents, but there is still a mountain to climb if they are to avoid an immediate drop back to the second division.