MADRID (AFP) - The two remaining unbeaten records were wiped away on Saturday as Real Madrid and Barcelona both tasted their first defeats of the season as Espanyol and Villarreal upset the formbook.

Real knew they could move five points clear of Barcelona at the top after their rivals lost 3-1 to Villarreal but failed to capitalise on that slip as they fell to their first defeat of the season in a 2-1 loss at Espanyol.

Despite the defeat champions Real stay top but are just one point ahead of Villarreal and Valencia who defeated Deportivo La Coruna 4-2.

Bernd Schuster had watched his Real team collect 19 points out of possible 21 under his reign but the German coach suffered his first league defeat in charge as Espanyol outclassed his team and could have scored more but for the heroics of Iker Casillas.

Albert Riera, who scored on his Spain debut against Denmark last weekend, put Espanyol ahead in the very first minute with a free header and Raul Tamudo, who also scored against Denmark, added a second with a brilliant chip after the interval.

Sergio Ramos scored late on for Real but it was all in vain. Espanyol, now just three points behind the leaders, are proving this season's giantkillers having beaten Sevilla, Valencia and now Real.

Real need to pick themselves up for Wednesday's Champions League match with Olympiakos.

Bojan Krkic made history by becoming Barcelona's youngest league scorer at the age of 17 years and 52 days, but the celebrations ended there as the title favourites fell to their first league defeat of the season with a 3-1 reverse at Villarreal.

Barcelona coach Frank Rijkaard chose to take a swipe at international commitments claiming they left his team at an unfair disadvantage.

"Perhaps it is just a coincidence that the defeat comes after an international break," said Rijkaard.

"The reality is that we hardly trained over the past two weeks and on top of that we faced a team that prepared conscientiously to face us."

Barcelona had won their last four league outings to surge up the standings but some woeful defending and a spot of deja-vu saw French winger Robert Pires win two penalties and Marcos Senna convert them both.

Santiago Cazorfa had put Villarreal ahead after just two minutes before Krkic, a star for Spain in the recent Under-17 World Cup, got Barcelona back into the match at 2-1 by becoming the youngest player to score a league goal for the Catalan club, eclipsing Lionel Messi's mark of 17 years, 10 months and seven days.

Ironically it was Messi who supplied Krkic, deputising for the dropped Ronaldinho, with the pass to beat his historical landmark.

Barcelona must now regroup ahead of their Champions League trip to Rangers on Tuesday although they must do without Deco who tore a thigh muscle and is out for up to five weeks.

Elsewhere Sevilla ended a sequence of four straight league defeats with a 2-0 victory over bottom side Levante.

Luis Fabiano scored twice inside the first 13 minutes to put Sevilla in control and they cruised to only their third win of the season.