Renato scored with a late header Sunday for Sevilla to withstand a spirited second-half rally from Real Madrid to win 4-3 in the Spanish league, leaving two-time defending champion Madrid trailing leader Barcelona by nine points. Renato rose over Fabio Cannavaro in the 85th minute to head in Frederic Kanoute's low cross after Madrid had hit back from 3-1 down to draw level at 3-3. Madrid coach Bernd Schuster all but conceded the title afterward with his team traveling to Barcelona next Saturday for the “classico.” Madrid, which has now lost three of its past four league matches, will be without the suspended Arjen Robben and Marcelo in its desperate bid to keep its season from finishing before Christmas. Barcelona, which thrashed third-place Valencia 4-0 on Saturday to stay unbeaten in 20 overall matches, leads with 35 points. Villarreal has 29, Sevilla and Valencia are on 27 and Madrid has 26. Calls for Madrid president Ramon Calderon to quit also rang out as the players left the field at halftime under steady rain. Earlier Sunday, Angel Lafita and Mexico striker Omar Bravo scored second-half goals as Deportivo La Coruna beat Malaga 2-0 for its sixth win from seven games to stay in the hunt for a Champions League place. Recreativo Huelva twice rallied on goals from Ruben Marco and Adrian Colunga before Javi Fuego's 54th-minute free kick secured a 3-2 win against Mallorca. Osasuna replaced Recreativo in last place after blowing a three-goal advantage in a 3-3 draw with Valladolid. At El Sardinero, Gonzalo Colsa's 83rd-minute curled shot beat ‘keeper Gorka Iraizoz as Racing Santander drew 1-1 with 10-man Athletic Bilbao. Asier Goiria poked through goalie Diego Alves from an apparent offside position for Numancia to beat Almeria 2-1. Also, Mane Esnal watched his Espanyol team draw 1-1 with Real Betis in his first game in charge. Villa beats Everton Ashley Young scored with only seconds of injury time remaining Sunday to give Aston Villa a 3-2 win at Everton and move the team into fifth place in the Premier League. Everton had looked to have earned a draw when defender Joleon Lescott scored his team's second equalizer just 30 seconds earlier, but Young burst through the middle, slalomed past Lescott and hit a right-foot shot past goalkeeper Tim Howard. The victory lifted Villa to 28 points, just one fewer than Arsenal, which occupies the last of the four lucrative Champions League qualifying spots. Everton's second loss in eight matches leaves it in eighth place on 22 points, one place and one point behind Portsmouth, which drew 1-1 at bottom side West Bromwich Albion. Hamburg wins at Cologne Mladen Petric scored both goals Sunday to lead Hamburger SV to a 2-1 win at FC Cologne in the Bundesliga, and Wolfsburg edged 10-man Hannover 2-1 despite missing a penalty with an outfield player standing in for the red-carded goalkeeper. Hamburg's win put it in fifth place, four points ahead of Wolfsburg. Hoffenheim leads Bayern Munich on goal difference, with both teams on 34 points after Bayern's 2-1 win Friday over the promoted team. On Saturday, Stefan Kiessling scored twice in Bayer Leverkusen's 3-1 win at Borussia Moenchengladbach to help his team rise to third place. Leverkusen bounced back from two straight losses and now has 31 points. Hertha Berlin is fourth with 30 points despite losing at Schalke 1-0. Hamburg also has 30 points. PSG beats Le Mans Guillaume Hoarau scored twice Sunday to lead Paris Saint-Germain to a 3-1 win over Le Mans and into fifth place in the French league. Lyon leads the standings with 34 points, three more than second-place Marseille and four ahead of Rennes. PSG is tied with Bordeaux on 29 points, but Bordeaux is in fourth place because it has a better goal difference. Also Sunday, it was: Monaco 1, Sochaux 1; and Grenoble 0, Auxerre 0.
