The villains kept their heads down this weekend, with only one player getting his marching orders in the ten first division games. The black sheep was Rayo's Graff, a man who featured quite a bit on these pages last season as well. The Argentine left back was given a first yellow card for handling outside of the area (leading up to Atlético's first goal), and was booked again on the half hour mark for a hard tackle on Correa, leaving his side with ten men for the last hour of the game.

Other than that there were 51 yellow cards, slightly below the weekly average, with Osasuna's Pablo García becoming the third player (after César and Roteta last week) to reach the five card suspension threshold. As expected, the disciplinary committee suspended all three Betis players who were sent off last week, although Filipescu was lucky to get off with a two match ban given that the referee had reported him for punching the linesman (albeit lightly) on the arm as he left the field. (05.11.02)