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Sporting Gijon beats Sevilla

MADRID: New coach Gregorio Manzano suffered his first defeat in charge of Sevilla losing 2-0 at Sporting Gijon on Sunday to end the honeymoon period.

Argentine striker Gaston Sangoy put Gijon ahead on six minutes and Diego Castro added another on 51 minutes to leave Sevilla empty-handed.

Manzano started with wins over Borussia Dortmund in the Europa League and Atletico Madrid in the league. Sevilla's second defeat of the season leaves it down in seventh.

Manzano gave Brazilian international forward Luis Fabiano — who has publicly said he wants to leave in January — only his second league start of the season but neither he nor his teammates could find the back of the net.

Espanyol collected its first away win of the season with a gritty 1-0 win at Real Mallorca on Sunday despite playing over half the match with ten men.

Former Spain international Luis Garcia scored a 31st minute penalty for his side's first away goal of the campaign and it won the match although Espanyol had to dig deep with Argentine striker Pablo Osvaldo sent off in the 35th minute for a stray elbow.

Espanyol climbs up to sixth with its maiden away win while Mallorca falls to 10th following its first home defeat of the season.

“We put in an incredible amount of effort with one man less against a Mallorca team that had turned in a great performance against Barcelona (a 1-1 draw) last time out,” said Espanyol coach Mauricio Pochettino.

Athletic Bilbao goes above Mallorca into eighth after a 2-1 home win over 10-man Real Zaragoza at San Mames on Sunday.

Man of the moment Fernando Llorente built on his three goals in Spain's two Euro 2012 qualifiers with a 23rd minute strike for Bilbao.

Zaragoza was reduced to ten men when Adam Pinter was sent off on 53 minutes and the club sits bottom of the table with no win to its name. Elsewhere fallen giant Deportivo La Coruna is still searching for its first win of the season after a 0-0 home draw with Osasuna at the Riazor stadium on Sunday.

Deportivo was Champions League finalist as recently as 2004 and won the Spanish league title in 2000, however, it is currently second from bottom of the table with no win from seven.

In other matches, Levante won the battle of the promoted sides defeating fellow newcomer Real Sociedad 2-1 on Sunday for its second win of the season.

Levante scored twice in six minutes with former Chelsea man Asier del Horno opening the scoring after 59 minutes before Ecuadorian striker Felipe Caicedo, on loan from Manchester City, struck on 65 minutes.

The results: on Sunday: Racing Santander 1 (Munitis 32) bt Almeria 0; Levante 2 (del Horno 59, Caicedo 65) bt Real Sociedad 1 (Sarpong 80); Deportivo La Coruna 0 drew with Osasuna 0; Real Mallorca 0 lost to Espanyol 1 (Luis Garcia 31-pen); Athletic Bilbao 2 (Iraola 11, Llorente 23) bt Real Zaragoza 1 (Braulio 90); Sporting Gijon 2 (Sangoy 6, Castro 51) bt Sevilla 0 . — AFP

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