Date:13/03/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/03/13/stories/2007031309451900.htm

Sport - Football

Gimnastic stuns Sevilla

Madrid: Sevilla missed a chance to take over first place in the Spanish league on Sunday, allowing Javier Portillo to score the winning goal in the 76th minute in a 1-0 loss to Gimnastic Tarragona.

Also, third-place Valencia drew 1-1 at Osasuna to move within three points of the lead.

The results: Spanish league: Gimnastic 1 (Portillo) bt Sevilla 0; Celta Vigo 1 (Angel) drew with Athletic Bilbao 1 (Aduritz); Getafe 1 (Guiza) drew with Recreativo 1 (Uche); Racing Santander 1 (Garay-pen) drew with Espanyol 1 (Riera); Real Betis 1 (Assuncao-pen) drew with Real Zaragoza 1 (Milito); Real Sociedad 3 (Savio, Kovacevic, Prieto) bt Mallorca 1 (Ibagaza); Atletico Madrid 2 (Galletti, Mista) bt Deportivo 0; Osasuna 1 (Punal-pen) drew with Valencia 1 (Morientes).

Italian league: Inter Milan 2 (Cruz, Ibrahimovic) bt AC Milan 1 (Ronaldo); Atalanta 1 (Defendi) drew with Parma 1 (Coly); Chievo 1 (Sammarco-pen) drew with Messina 1 (Rigano-pen); Empoli 2 (Pratali, Almiron) drew with Livorno 2 (Rezaei, Lucarelli); Palermo 1 (Cavani) drew with Fiorentina 1 (Mutu); Reggina 2 (Tedesco, Foggia) lost to Lazio 3 (Manfredini, Pandev, Makinwa); Siena 0 lost to Ascoli 1 (Bertotto-own goal). — Agencies