Iborra in thick of it as Sevilla edges Osasuna
Sevilla clung onto second place in LaLiga with a thrilling 4-3 win away to last-placed Osasuna, with Vicente Iborra in the thick of the action.
Four consecutive league wins - including a 2-1 win over table-topping Real Madrid - had propelled Jorge Sampaoli's side into the title picture, but it was made to work for a fifth-straight at El Sadar.
Iborra turned home Stevan Jovetic's cross with half-time approaching to cancel out Sergio Leon's well-worked opener for the host team.
Sevilla could not take momentum into the second half though and Iborra was left red-faced as he deflected a long-range striker beyond Sergio Rico as a fervent home crowd began to dream of just a second league win of the season.
Those dreams lasted all of 130 seconds as captain Iborra made amends, storming into the penalty area to head home after Wissam Ben Yedder's shot was saved up into the air.
Sevilla was dominant from there, Franco Vazquez nodding it into the lead for the first time with 10 minutes to play and Pablo Sarabia making the win safe with a neat near-post shot in the 92nd minute - Kenan Kodro's swift response in the final minute of stoppage-time serving only to make Sampaoli agitate a bit more on the sideline.
Victory puts Sevilla back to within a point of Madrid, which holds a game in hand, while the seemingly doomed Osasuna remains nine points adrift at the bottom.
