Espanyol 2 - Sevilla 4

Espanyol: Kameni; Zabaleta, Jarque, Serrán, Clemente (Chica 46'); Valdo, Moisés Hurtado, De la Peña, Riera (Coro 74'); Luis García, Ewerthon (Jonathan Soriano 61'). 4-4-2.
Sevilla: Palop; Escudé, Mosquera, Dragutinovic, Adriano; Jesús Navas, Poulsen (Fazio 81'), Maresca, Diego Capel (Duda 92'); Luis Fabiano (Kone 88'), Kanouté. 4-4-2.

Team changes: Espanyol: Kameni, Zabaleta, Jarque, Serrán, Valdo, Ewerthon for Casilla, Chica, Lacruz, Torrejón, Rufete, Jonathan Soriano / Sevilla: Mosquera, Maresca for Daniel Alves, Keita.

Goals:
0-1. 06. Luis Fabiano. Connected with square pass from Kanouté to beat keeper.
0-2. 11. Kanouté. Struck angled shot past Kameni from Luis Fabiano pass.
1-2. 41. Luis García. Got on end of Zabaleta cross to turn ball into net.
1-3. 74. Poulsen. Shot from outside area which took deflection off Serrán.
2-3. 76. Corominas. Volleyed ball back into net after Palop cleared corner.
2-4. 78. Diego Capel. Got on end of Navas cross to turn ball wide of Kameni.

Fifth placed Espanyol were beaten 2-4 by a Sevilla side who move up above Racing Santander into the top six as a result. Valverde's team have been going through a small crisis recently, having only picked up three points in their last five games, and they went two down early on once again. And once again it was Sevilla's dynamic duo who did the damage, Luis Fabiano turning in Kanouté's cross to open the scoring in the sixth minute, and then returned the favour for Kanouté to notch up the second just five minutes later.

Espanyol had not got off to a bad start though, with Luis García, riera and Ewerthon all going close before Luis Fabiano's goal, and Luis García got one back for them before the break after Zabaleta set him up. But the full back was sent off for a second bookable offence after the restart, and Poulsen got a third for the visitors soon afterwards with a shot from outside of the area which took a deflection off a defender to wrong-foot Kameni.

Still the locals didn't give up, and substitute Corominas scored a spectacular volley after Palop could only push out a corner two minutes later. But two minutes after that Diego Capel wrapped things up after getting on the end of a Jesús Navas cross, and although Jonathan Soriano did go close with a late header it was already too late.