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Osasuna vs Real Madrid Prediction & Betting tips
The leader of the league table shows: Real Madrid can play first on matchday 23 – on Sunday they go to Osasuna (4 p.m.) – and can even extend their lead in the table over FC Barcelona and put the Catalans under even more pressure, because they close the game day at late Sunday evening at Betis Sevilla.
Until then, the Madrilenians could have a six point advantage – provided they win their guest performance in Pamplona near Osasuna. But this will not be an easy task, because the promoted team is one of the surprise teams of the season and hard to beat.
Especially at home in the El Sadar stadium, the hot-blooded “Rojillos” are an extremely uncomfortable opponent.
In addition, Real still has the home game of Thursday night in the Copa del Rey against Real Sociedad in the bones – a certain mental and physical exhaustion may therefore be present.
But the bookmakers are not impressed by it. In Osasuna against Real Madrid, the role of favorites is clearly distributed, the odds for a tip in 3-way speak a clear language in favor of the Blancos.
Osasuna:
The match doesn’t have to be that clear. Madrid’s tiredness will play a role, but the stadium is likely to be much more decisive: Osasuna poses problems for every team at El Sadar. Only Athletic Bilbao and Real Sociedad were able to kidnap all three points this season.
The hot-blooded rojillos like to run into the enemy, cheered on by their equally hot-blooded followers – what they lack in footballing means, they make up for with zeal, greed, running and tackling.
With these attributes, the newcomer has also managed to play a season that has so far been carefree. There was no fear of relegation in Pamplona so far, Osasuna was never worse than in 13th place.
Coach Jagoba Arrasate’s team is currently ranked 11th, with more distance to the relegation ranks (10 points) than to the European ranks (8).
A win against Real Madrid, and so the view could possibly be directed upwards. However, Osasuna’s best player of the season will not be able to help: attacker Chimy Avila, with nine goals the most accurate player on the team and one of the shooting stars in La Liga this season, tore the cruciate ligament at the end of January – a bitter news for Osasuna the Argentine, after all, the greatest weapon in the attack and embodied the greed and bite of the cheeky climber like no other.
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Real Madrid :
In the Copa del Rey on Thursday evening there was a surprising home defeat against Real Sociedad, Madrid lost 3: 4 to the Basque in a crazy game, thus being eliminated in the quarterfinals of the reformed cup.
“We are all very sad about the defeat. Losing at home is hard, ”winger Vinicius Junior struggled with the cup knockout. and admitted: “We weren’t in good shape and Real Sociedad played very good football.”
In fact, the Blancos’ performance, especially defensive, was not good this time. In the league, Real is the best defense in Spain (13 goals), in the cup the royal team suddenly neglected defensive work, were now 1-4 behind.
“We made a lot of mistakes and didn’t play well in the first half,” admitted coach Zinedine Zidane openly, “we made a few mistakes on the defensive. The opponent played well, you have to say that. We have the next game on Sunday and have to look ahead. Of course the defeat hurts, you have to be so honest. We have to recover now, because it was a big effort. ”
Osasuna vs Real Madrid head to head matches
25.09.19 LL Real Madrid Osasuna 2 : 0
11.02.17 LL Osasuna Real Madrid 1 : 3
10.09.16 LL Real Madrid Osasuna 5 : 2
26.04.14 LL Real Madrid Osasuna 4 : 0
15.01.14 CDR Osasuna Real Madrid 0 : 2