MALLORCA TODAY - Third home defeat of the season for Mallorca

Real Mallorca 1 : 3 Sporting Gijón
A minute's silence was held for the former Mallorca and national team coach Luis Aragonés. Perhaps the emotion got to Mallorca. Goals either side of the half-time break gave the visitors a two-nil lead, but Sporting had been the better team for most of the first period before Cases scored two minutes before the pause. Canella added the second on 53 minutes, and this more or less settled the match, Geijo pulling one back for Mallorca with a minute left, only for Carmona to restore Gijón's two-goal advantage. A bad result for Mallorca against second-placed Sporting. Mallorca are in ninth position, subject to later results.

MALLORCA TODAY - Real Mallorca 1 : 2 Sporting Gijón

A very different challenge for Mallorca tonight, following clashes with the likes of Valencia and Atlético Madrid. Gijón, bottom of La Liga and with four losses in four away games, were expected to be three-points fodder for Mallorca. And nothing in the first half suggested otherwise, Castro's header putting the home team ahead after quarter of an hour and Mallorca dominating play. But Gijón started to come more into the game and soon after the break gained a deserved equaliser through a Bilic header, and worse was to come for Mallorca, Joao Victor, playing at centre-back as the team was running out of central defenders, put through his own net. Mallorca, losing it for a time, came back, Pina hitting a post. Gijón, suffering a series of yellow cards towards the end, held on to condemn Mallorca to a home defeat which, after the joy of a draw in Madrid, brings them back to earth with a bump.

Mallorca:
Aouate; Cendrós, Joao Victor, Ramis, Bigas; Tissone (Tejera 67), Pina; Pereira (Victor 60), Nsue (Alfaro 77), Castro; Hemed
Goal: Castro (16)
Yellow: Ramis (44); Tejera (68); Cendrós (71); Pina (75)

Gijón:
Juan Pablo; Lora (Damián Suárez 78), Botia, Iván Hernández, Canella; Rivera, Cases; Trejo, André Castro, De las Cuevas (Eguren 83); Barral (Bilic 45)
Goal: Bilic (49); Joao Victor (64 - own goal)
Yellow: De las Cuevas (54); Iván Hernández (87); Eguren (89); André Castro (90+)