Spain's woes in Europe continued midweek, with Sevilla and Real Madrid both being knocked out of the Champions League. The Andalusians lost to Fenerbahçe in a penalty shoot out after winning the second leg 3-2, with Kanouté one of the scorers, and Madrid lost the following day to Roma despite Raúl's goal. An early strike from Xavi against Celtic took Barcelona through to the last eight though, and on Thursday Getafe did themselves proud, De la Red and Pablo Hernández scoring in a 1-2 win at Benfica, a result which provoked the resignation of the Portuguese side's Spanish coach José Antonio Camacho.

On to the league at the weekend, and there were a season's best 35 goals in all. That was due in part though to Mallorca's best ever first division haul of seven goals against Recreativo, with Arango scoring a hat-trick and Güiza and Borja Valero getting two each. Güiza is the top scoring Spanish player in La Liga, just ahead of Raúl, who got the winner from the penalty spot against Espanyol on Saturday. His goal took his side back to eight points above Barcelona, who lost 1-2 to Villarreal in the Nou Camp the following day, Xavi's fifth in seven games not enough to prevent Tomasson from scoring a late winner for the "Yellow Submarine".

Our leader Luis Fabiano was on target again though, giving Sevilla a win against Levante after Riga had opened the scoring for the Valencia based side. Diego Milito got his first goal in eight games from the penalty spot to give Manolo Villanova (his fourth coach this season) a win on his debut against Atlético, and David Villa got one of Valencia's goals in a 2-2 draw with Deportivo. Elsewhere the two cup semi-final rivals Getafe and Racing both won 3-0, Pablo getting another for Michael Laudrup's side and Tchité scoring again for the Cantabrians. (10.03.08)