The Sunday the four teams with least possession won: Mallorca lead, Oviedo run riot at Zorrilla and Sabadell's unbeaten run ends

Alright, folks? Sunday's matchday 5 action in LaLiga Hypermotion is done and dusted, and there's a pattern that's stuck in my head. All four teams that won on Sunday had less possession than their opponents. All four. No exceptions. Welcome to the Second Division, where having the ball means absolutely nothing if you don't know what to do with it.

😤 Sporting 0-1 Eldense: the newly promoted side's ambulance job

Eldense rolled up to El Molinón without a single win to their name, in the relegation zone, with an interim manager and all the noise about a potential Messi transfer hanging over them. And they left with three points. Goal from Javi Martínez in the 76th minute, who'd come off the bench and found himself clean through on Yáñez. 19,809 people in the stands on a Sunday at 2pm.

Sporting's numbers are worthy of framing in the boardroom: 55.6% possession, 12 shots and only 3 on target. Yáñez made one save all game and still ended up picking the ball out of the net. This is Eldense's first ever victory over Sporting in history and their first goal at El Molinón in three visits. And that cursed 2pm kickoff time lives on: fifteen games without a win at 14:00.

🔵 Valladolid 0-3 Oviedo: 13 shots, 1 on target

The match that sums up the entire matchday. Valladolid had the ball — 58.9% possession — and had thirteen shots. How many on target? One. Oviedo, with 41.1% and twelve shots, got six on target and three in the back of the net.

Carlos Domínguez opened the scoring in the 25th, and the floodgates opened in the second half: Dani Calvo in the 53rd and Pablo Sáenz in the 56th. Three minutes to go from 0-1 to 0-3 at Zorrilla. Oviedo move up to eighth with 8 points and, here's the thing, they're the league's meanest defence: just 1 goal conceded in five matchdays. Valladolid stay 17th with 4 points and 2 goals for, and that's starting to become a serious problem.

🏝️ Mallorca 2-0 Sabadell: the unbeaten run is over

Sabadell arrived at Son Moix as the feel-good story of the season: newly promoted, second place, nobody had beaten them yet. Well, that's done, and in the cruellest way possible: Fuentes double in the first 24 minutes (10' and 24') and game over.

And what's harsh about it all is the stats: Sabadell had 18 shots, five more than Mallorca, and had more possession (50.2%). Didn't matter one bit. Luis García's men go top with 10 points and the best goal difference in the league (+5) in front of 15,720 fans. Sabadell stay on 8 points, which for a newly promoted side after five matchdays is still pretty impressive.

⚽ Tenerife 2-0 Leganés: Enric Gallego tears apart the best defence

Sunday's curtain-closer at the Heliodoro with 16,723 in attendance and a double from Enric Gallego: penalty in the 25th and goal in the 74th. And it's no joke against this opponent: Leganés had only conceded one goal in four matchdays and shipped two in one afternoon.

Same pattern all over again: Lega had 58.4% possession and only got 2 shots on target from ten attempts. Tenerife, with 41.6% of the ball, managed four shots and scored two. The Canaries plant themselves on 10 points in their return to professional football, right on Mallorca's heels.

📊 Here's how the table looks

Four teams locked on 10 points at the top and Celta Fortuna-Eibar still to play on Monday — Eibar, with 9 points and a game in hand, can still muscle their way back to the summit. The standings update themselves:

🧮 What you need to know from Sunday

• All four winners had less possession than their opponents. Four out of four. If anyone still thinks you win in the Second Division by passing it around, there's your proof.
• Mallorca are top with 10 points and +5 goal difference, and they've only conceded 2 goals.
• Oviedo are the league's stingiest defence: 1 conceded in five games. And they're already on 8 points, eighth place.
• The newly promoted sides' unbeaten runs are done. Sabadell fell at Son Moix and Eldense, who hadn't won anything, took their first win right here at El Molinón.
• Sporting are 15th with 7 points and have the worst attack in the entire league: 2 goals in five matchdays. Only Valladolid match that tally.
• Enric Gallego and Fuentes claimed the only two braces of the matchday, on the same day.

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