MADRID. April 3: Deportivo La Coruna's Yugoslavian International Sl-avlsa Jokanovic scored twice In their 3-1 away win at Sevilla on Sunday night to keep them top of the Spanish title race, reports AFP.

Jokanovic found the net in the l()th and 13th minutes before Juan Carlos pulled one back for Sevilla five minutes later. Leading striker Roy Makaay, who scored a double for them last weekend, added another for Deportivo four minutes from time.

Deportivo. on 58 points, remain two points ahead of Catalonian giants Barcelona who beat Valencia 3-0 through Winston Bogarde and two more goals from his Dutch interna-tional teammate, striker Patrick Kluivert.

Third-placed Real Zaragoza kept up their outside chances of taking the title by beating the other Seville club re legation-threatened Real Betis 1-0 in the evening game to stay four points off the pace.

While Seville could have the very distasteful prospect of having their two chibs relegated, relegation is staring ailing giants Atletico Madrid in'the face.

Atletico, double winners as recently as 1996, went down 2-1 to Athletic Bilbao on Sunday, the only consolation that Jimmy Floyd Hasseibaink grabbed his 22nd goal of the season to take sole lead in the overall scoring charts, to leave them second from bottom and three points adrift of automatic

Atletico's bitter neighbours Real Madrid's title hopes took a blow on Saturday night after a 1-1 draw with relegation-threatened Real Sociedad left them In fourth spot.

Brazilian striker Savio Bortolini, who hadn't played since January 26 because of Injury. celebrated his return with a goal in the third minute, latching on to a freekick by Jose Maria Gutierrez, generally known as Gut I

Another freekick, this time by Real Sociedad s Portuguese midfielder Sa Pinto, set up Oscar dr Paula to equalize with a header in the 57th minute.

It wasn't a great result for Real Sociedad either considering the match was at home and they are now fifth-from-bottom and only two points above Real Oviedo in the first relegation