First Division - Day 21

Sporting Gijón 5 - Real Sociedad 1

Sporting: Cuéllar; Lora, Luis Hernández, Jorge Meré, Isma López; Rachid, Sergio Alvarez (Omar Mascarell 63‘); Carmona, Dani Ndi (Halilovic 75’), Jony (Alex Menéndez 79‘); Sanabria. 4-2-3-1.
Real: Rulli; Zaldúa, Aritz Elustondo (Mikel González 45’), Iñigo Martínez, Héctor; Illarramendi, Bergara (Rubén Pardo 75‘); Carlos Vela, Xabi Prieto, Bruma (Oyarzabal 46’); Jonathas. 4-2-3-1.

Goals:
1-0. 01. Carmona. Turned ball into net after Rulli spìlled Isma López cross.
2-0. 09. Ndi. Header from close up after Carmona headed down Jony centre.
2-1. 37. Vela. Latched on to loose ball in area and struck shot across Cuéllar.
3-1. 44. Sanabria. Battled past two defenders and rounded keeper to score.
4-1. 53. Sanabria. Tap-in from close up after Rulli pushed out Carmona shot.
5-1. 81. Sanabria. Picked up Halilovic pass and curled shot wide of keeper.

Yellow cards: Sanabria 14’, Carmona 21’, Iñigo Martínez 45’, Zaldúa 62’.

Last weekend saw the highest scoring round of matches this season, and this week started in the same vein, Sporting Gijón thrashing Real Sociedad 5-1 on Friday evening. Carmona and Ndi put the Asturians two up with less than ten minutes gone, and and after Vela got one back, Sanabria added his second hat-trick of the season to take Abelardo’s team out of the bottom three.