A low scoring weekend, with only 22 goals in the ten games and seven clean sheets from our "porteros". Cañizares and Sanzol got two of them, the former in the win over Betis and the latter in the 0-0 draw against Ricardo's Racing, and they move ahead of Molina in the table. A goal-less draw as well between Valladolid and Murcia takes both keepers higher up in the rankings, Bizzarri moving up to ninth and Juanmi hovering just outside our table. The performance of the week though undoubtedly came from Villarreal's Reina, who was one of two keepers to save a penalty (the other was Málaga's Calatayud), and also set up a goal for Sonny Anderson with an incredible throw out.

Several goalkeeping changes this week, including both men in the match between Zaragoza and Albacete due to an injury to Lainez and an attack of flu for Roa. The visitors came out on top 0-1 though, thanks to a good performance from Almunia and a bad mistake by Valbuena, who dropped the ball in the path of an attacker for him to score. Espanyol's Toni did likewise against Barcelona by the way, a game in which Rijkaard decided to give Rüstü his first run out in the league in place of Víctor Valdés. And finally Real Sociedad's Alberto made his first league appearance of the season thanks to an injury to Westerveld, a match which his side lost 2-0 as mentioned elsewhere on these pages. (15.12.03)