Not a great start for Spanish sides this week in the Champions League, Real Madrid being held to a 0-0 draw at Olympiacos and Valencia also failing to score as they were beaten 0-2 by lowly Rosenborg. Barcelona and Sevilla did better the following day though with two goal victories over Rangers and Steaua Bucharest, Henry and Messi getting the goals for the Blaugrana and Renato both for the Andalusians. Only Villarreal played in the UEFA Cup this week (Atlético and Getafe had rest days), Cazorla and Nihat scoring in a 1-2 win over the little known Mlada Boleslav.

On to the league at the weekend, and Kanouté and Luis Fabiano were on target again for Sevilla. It didn't help much though as they fell to a 3-2 defeat at Villarreal, Guille Franco scoring twice for the "Yellow Submarine". Almost half the 26 goals this weekend came from that match and the game between Real Madrid and Mallorca, in which Robinho scored twice and set up another for Raúl before Van Nistelrooy got the winner. Güiza celebrated his call up for Spain though by putting the visitors ahead, for a short while at least. Elsewhere David Villa signalled his return from injury with two against Murcia, and another member of the Spanish squad Tamudo scored an important goal for Espanyol against Athletic Bilbao. (12.11.07)