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In the Spanish championship on Sunday, after playing all 16th round matches, two Catalan clubs remain at the top of the standings - "Barcelona" leads with nine points ahead of "Espanyol" in second place, which failed to beat the absolute underdog "Numancia", but with 30 points maintained their position. "Real" and "Valencia" who played on Saturday have 29 points each, while after winning in the Seville derby against "Betis", "Sevilla" now has 28 points and is in fourth place. Taking advantage of "Betis" failure, "Atletico" moved up to sixth place, forcing "Deportivo" to suffer their fourth defeat of the season. Athletic Bilbao won their first away game against "Zaragoza". "Osasuna" also won away, defeating the team from the penultimate place, "Mallorca". In other matches, "Villarreal" achieved a crushing victory against "Malaga", while "Real Sociedad" and "Getafe" played to a draw. Standings 1 - 2 32' [0 - 1] Valmiro Valdo 41' [0 - 2] Valmiro Valdo 80' [1 - 2] Lopez Jesus Perera 0 - 0 1 - 1 70' [1 - 0] Nihat Kahveci 80' [1 - 1] Mario Pernia (11m.) 79' Asier Riesgo ("Real Sociedad") sent off 3 - 0 45' [1 - 0] Juan Manuel Pena 65' [2 - 0] Juan Roman Riquelme 84' [3 - 0] Diego Forlan 0 - 2 54' [0 - 1] Santiago Ezquerro 79' [0 - 2] Santiago Ezquerro 2 - 1 4' [1 - 0] Daniel Alves 44' [1 - 1] Fernando 47' [2 - 1] Javi Navarro 90' Luis Fernandez ("Betis") sent off 1 - 0 27' [1 - 0] Antonio Lopez
