Madrid
Sevilla twice scored late — including an 85th-minute own goal by Ramos — to end Real Madrid’s 40-game unbeaten streak and move within one point of its rival atop the Spanish league with a 2-1 victory on Sunday.
It was a tough result for Ramos, who three days ago had angered Sevilla fans after converting a penalty kick in a Copa del Rey match. Ramos said he was insulted by some supporters of his former team.
On Sunday, the Seville native was jeered nearly every time he touched the ball, and heard even more from the crowd at Ramon Sanchez-Pizjuan when he found his own net with a header while trying to clear a cross.
“The goal was a normal game situation. I had one of my best games with Real Madrid playing here,” Ramos said. “I wished I could be welcomed differently, but I can’t change that, it is what it is.”
Steven Jovetic scored Sevilla’s winner two minutes into injury time to give Madrid its first defeat since a 2-0 loss at Wolfsburg in April in the quarterfinals of the Champions League last season.
Karim Benzema’s injury-time equalizer in a 3-3 draw against Sevilla on Thursday had allowed Madrid to break the unbeaten Spanish record that it shared with Barcelona.
“We played a great match but we needed another five minutes there at the end,” said Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane, who has lost only three times since taking over the club about a year ago. “We knew that one day this would happen, and it did today.”
Madrid had beaten Sevilla, 3-0, at home in the first leg of the last 16 of the Copa del Rey two weeks ago.
Cristiano Ronaldo gave Madrid the lead on Sunday by converting a penalty kick in the 67th after Dani Carvajal was fouled inside the area by Sevilla goalkeeper Sergio Rico.
It was the fourth straight league win for Sevilla, which has thrived in second-tier European competitions but hasn’t won the Spanish league title since its lone triumph in 1946.
Everton Batters Man City
Manchester, England
It takes something special to overshadow a match between bitter rivals Manchester United and Liverpool, but City’s 4-0 loss at Everton on Sunday did just that.
As he slumped to the heaviest loss of his career in a domestic league match, Guardiola — with his arms folded — was seen staring into space while he sat in the Goodison Park dugout. At other times, he had his face in his hands.
City has dropped out of the Champions Leagues positions into fifth place, 10 points adrift of leader Chelsea.
Man United kicked off less than an hour after City’s drubbing but couldn’t get a win that would have put the neighbors tied on points, drawing 1-1 with Liverpool at Old Trafford. After 21 of 38 games, City and United — the two pre-season title favorites — are outside the top four.
Goals either side of halftime by Romelu Lukaku and Kevin Mirallas set Everton on its way before 18-year-old midfielder Tom Davies raced into the area and dinked a deft finish over goalkeeper Claudio Bravo, the ball landing just inside the post.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic equalized late for United to bail out teammate Paul Pogba in a frantic, intense match with Liverpool at Old Trafford between the two most decorated teams in English soccer.
On the day United rolled out advertising hoardings displaying Paul Pogba’s new Twitter emoji, the player himself made a crucial mistake by conceding a penalty for handball while jumping with his back to the ball at a corner. James Milner converted the spot kick.