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Fourth round, second leg

Sevilla join Real Madrid in the fifth round of the cup after beating Sabadell 5-1 in their second leg match on Wednesday. The tie was already over as a contest following the 1-6 drubbing in the first leg, but the Catalans (with new coach Alex García on the bench for the first time) did actually take the lead, Collantes firing a twentieth minute penalty past Sergio Rico after Kolo pulled him back in the area. Before half time though Gameiro levelled it with a shot on the turn after picking up a deflected pass from Denis Suárez, and with an hour or so on the clock Iago Aspas repeated his first leg hat-trick with another three goals in only four minutes, the first after Reyes laid the ball back to him, the second with an angled lob over Nauzet, and the third after controlling a high pass from Gameiro. Deulofeu rounded off the scoring with ten minutes to go on a rapid counter-attack, and Sevilla cruise though with a massive 11-2 aggregate score. (03.12.14)

Real Madrid are the first team through to the last sixteen of the competition after they beat second division B side Cornellà 5-0 on Tuesday, the tie brought forward by two weeks to allow them to participate in the Club World Cup later this month. Already 1-4 up from the first leg, Ancelotti put out a line-up packed with lesser used players and the odd junior. For the visitors though this was their cup final, and they had a chance to take the lead early on when Arbeloa brought down Boniquet in the area. However the forward fired his spot kick over Pacheco’s crossbar, and just a minute later Isco put James through for him to lift a shot over keeper Iñigo. The two changed roles with just over half an hour gone for Isco to score a second, and a minute after that James latched on to Chicharito’s back-heel pass to curl a third past the daytime school worker. After the restart Madrid went four up when Borja López deflected the ball in to his own net after a shot by Chicharito came down off the bar, and Jesé came on for his first appearance following a nine month injury lay-off to latch on to Isco’s through ball and make it five. (02.12.14)