Tenerife held on to their three point lead at the top with a second half goal by Barata in their Canary Island derby against bottom club Universidad Las Palmas. Referee Tristante Oliva disallowed two first half goals by Barata for dubious off sides, sent off Universidad's Olsson and Yeray either side of the goal and showed 13 cards in all. This was Tenerife's fifth victory in a row. Sevilla won the Andalucian derby against their city rivals Betis, coming back from behind with three second half goals from Tevenet and two from Olivera, including a penalty after Capi had given the home side the lead early on. Both sides ended the game with ten men after Sevilla's Alfaro was sent off in the first half and Betis keeper Prats followed him in the penalty incident in the second.

The win keeps Sevilla in second place on 24 points, three behind the leaders and ahead of Córdoba on goal average. The Andalucians beat Extremadura 2-0, with the visitors keeper Gaspercic letting Oscar s shot through his hands for the first goal, and Espejo adding a second in the second half. Salamanca took advantage of slip ups by all the teams above them to jump up to fourth place thanks to a single goal by Pinilla at the start of the second half at Racing Ferrol. They have 21 points, ahead of Jaén on goal average after they drew 0-0 with Leganés. After 13 games Jaén have only scored eleven goals, letting in the same number, but that is high scoring compared to Recreativo, a point behind them in sixth place in the table. Their goal record is 9-5 after their 1-0 win over Albacete, with Barajas scoring in the last minute. That broke a run of four draws in a row. Levante versus Sporting and Badajoz versus Murcia also ended in 1-1 draws, with the away teams getting late goals to equalise.

Down at the bottom, Atlético Madrid failed again, only managing a point against Eibar who were playing with ten men from the 24th minute after Galdames received two yellow cards in three minutes. Salva opened the scoring early on with a header, but Sendoa levelled twenty minutes from time to salvage a point. Atlético stay in seventeenth place, but only on goal average ahead of Extremadura and Compostela, who beat Lleida 2-1, their third home win in a row. The victory takes them four points ahead of their opponents, who stay on 10 points, one ahead of Racing Ferrol and three above the bottom team, Universidad Las Palmas. Getafe meanwhile climbed above Atlético Madrid with a 1-4 victory against Elche, thanks to some controversial refereeing. Elche's Redondo was sent off after half an hour for a second bookable offence when the score was 1-1, and after Maikel got his second and Vidal added another for the visitors, Elche were reduced to nine men after keeper César Gálvez was sent off for bringing a Getafe player down in the penalty area with five minutes to go, and most of the crowd left before the visitors added the fourth from the penalty spot.