Eight red cards on an exciting Saturday night, with all ten games kicking off at the same time just one week away from the end of the season. Athletic Bilbao's Amorebieta was unlucky to get his marching orders after a shot from Real Madrid's Higuaín hit him on the arm inside the penalty area early on in the their match, Athletic's team delegate Iñaki Morán also sent to the stands for his protests in the incident (although his red card was downgraded to a yellow by the disciplinary committee. Madrid's big rivals Barcelona were also favoured by a red card, Sevilla's Konko getting himself sent off for a second bookable offence after the break. Sevilla played better after that though and almost came back to draw.

Villarreal beat local rivals Valencia 2-0 to close in on the Europa League spots, although they made things more difficult for themselves after having Llorente and Capdevila both sent off for double yellow cards with a quarter of an hour to go. Capdevila's bookings were to say the least strange, The Spanish international full back asked referee Clos Gómez if Llorente's second yellow card was for Busquets, and after getting booked himself for the comment repeated the question about his own yellow card! It appears he was making an ironic reference to the booking which Barcelona's Busquets didn't get in their meeting a few days ago!

Two red cards as well in the relegation struggle between Valladolid and Racing Santander, Racing's Moratón the first to go for a second caution and Valladolid's Borja following him down the tunnel a few minutes later for the same reason. And Zaragoza defender Contini was also given his second red card in three games after he too picked up two yellow cards at Xerez. All will miss the last weekend together with seven other players who completed the five yellow card cycle, including Ponzio (Zaragoza), the first player to reach the total of 15 bookings, Arbeloa (Real Madrid) and Toribio (Málaga), who both picked up their tenth, and Xavi And Maxwell (Barcelona) and Marc Bertrán and Ayoze (Tenerife), who picked up their fifth. (12.05.10)

PS The disciplinary committee decided that Capdevila's comments only merited one booking, so his red card was cancelled.