Two goals from David Villa were enough for Valencia to beat Getafe 2-1 in the Spanish league Monday night. Chori Dominguez burst past Getafe defender Cata Diaz to find Villa in the 39th minute for the opener at the Mestalla Stadium. The hosts made it 2-0 shortly after the break after David Silva stole the ball to set up his Spain teammate, who lobbed goalkeeper Jordi Codina for his league-leading 17th goal of the season. Valencia was reduced to 10 men in the 61st after Alexis picked up a second yellow card for fouling Pedro Leon. Getafe striker Manuel Del Moral took advantage of a defensive lapse in the 75th to cut the deficit. Barcelona leads with 58 points, Real Madrid has 56, Valencia 46 and Sevilla 42. Getafe is eighth with 32 points. Barcelona beat Racing Santander 4-0 Saturday while Madrid thrashed Villarreal 6-2 Sunday. Mourinho banned for 3 games Inter Milan's march to the Serie A title further unravelled Monday when coach Jose Mourinho was banned for three league matches and four players were suspended for next weekend's trip to Udinese. Outspoken Mourinho, whose side hosts his former club Chelsea in the Champions League Wednesday, has been punished for making a handcuffs gesture during Saturday's controversial 0-0 home draw with Sampdoria. The Serie A leader had Walter Samuel and Ivan Cordoba sent off in the first half Saturday before Samuel Eto'o was booked for diving in the box, prompting Mourinho to burst out laughing in the dugout and make the gesture to television cameras. The Portuguese also insulted the officials in the tunnel at halftime and has been fined $54,500, the Italian League said in a statement. Defenders Samuel and Cordoba received one-game bans for their dismissals but teammates Esteban Cambiasso and Sulley Muntari were given two-match bans for off-the-field incidents. Cambiasso has been punished for trying to punch an opposition player in the tunnel at halftime while fellow midfielder Muntari swore at the fourth official. The absences mean Inter, already hit by injuries, will be decimated at Udinese next Sunday having seen their Serie A lead slashed in recent weeks following three straight draws. AS Roma is five points adrift of the champion while AC Milan can go four points behind with a win at Fiorentina in their game in hand Wednesday. Mourinho has been banned from the touchline and fined several times during his year-and-a-half in Italy and Italian soccer federation chief Giancarlo Abete has had enough. “Each time there are over-the-top gestures or comments it creates exasperation,” he told www.gazzetta.it. “This is a delicate phase of the season, we need respect for everyone else because over-excited football is no good.” Inter president Massimo Moratti, who stopped his coach talking to the press Saturday, was confused by the gesture. “He did it, he knows why and he must explain it. Maybe he meant that ‘they' wanted to stop us,” said Moratti.
