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Celta Vigo and Deportivo La Coruna secure La Liga victories

Sporting Gijon's defender Alberto Lora (L) vies with Celta Vigo's Chilean forward Fabian Orellana
Image: Sporting Gijon defender Alberto Lora (L) vies with Celta Vigo's Fabian Orellana.

Celta Vigo returned to the top four in La Liga with a 2-1 victory over Sporting Gijon on Saturday.

The Galician outfit's excellent start to the season was becoming a distant memory after losing three of their previous four games.

And lowly Sporting looked like causing further frustration after Carlos Castro Garcia had cancelled out Fabian Orellana's first-half effort.

But Barcelona target Nolito scored a fortunate winner six minutes from time when Sporting goalkeeper Ivan Cuellar's attempted clearance clattered off him and flew into an unguarded net.

Deportivo La Coruna remain three points behind Celta in fifth spot after a 2-0 win at Las Palmas extended their unbeaten run to four games.

The visitors took the lead on 16 minutes when David Simon turned the ball into his own net and wrapped up the three points in stoppage time as Faycal Fajr broke clear and squared for Lucas Perez to finish.

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Malaga remain bottom after surrendering two late goals to draw 2-2 with fellow strugglers Granada in an exciting Andalusian derby.

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Charles headed home a cross from Miguel Torres to give the hosts the lead on the stroke of half-time and Pablo Fornals struck on the rebound to double their advantage after 57 minutes, just moments after Fernando Tissone had been dismissed for picking up a second yellow card.

But the visitors still had a bit of fight left in them and finally made their numerical advantage count.

Substitute Youssef El Arabi headed in a cross from Dimitri Foulquier on 83 minutes to make for an exciting finale and just two minutes later Ruben Rochina nodded Cristiano Biraghi's ball from the left past Carlos Kameni to earn his side a point.

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