Madrid (AFP)
Osasuna honored their guest, Barcelona, the leaders, and inflicted their first loss this season, when they beat them 4-2 at the “El Serdar” stadium in Pamplona, in the eighth stage of the Spanish Football League.
Osasuna decided the first half in its favor with two goals from Croatian Ante Budimir (18) and Brian Saragosa (28), and Pau Victor reduced the gap at the beginning of the second half (53), but the hosts responded with two goals from Budimir (72 from a penalty kick) and substitute Abel Britonis (85), before Substitute Lamine Yamal scores the second goal for the Catalan club (90).
Osasuna prevented the Catalan club from continuing its ideal start in La Liga, achieving its eighth victory in a row, and inflicted on it its first loss in the league with its new German coach, Hansi Flick, and the second in various competitions, after falling to French club Monaco 1-2 in the first round of the league competition. European champions.
Flick paid the price for resting the duo Yamal and the Brazilian Rafinha, as his team fell behind by 2-0, before he tried to remedy the situation in the second half, after he pushed them in the 59th minute while his team was 1-2 behind, but to no avail.
The Catalan club, which is preparing to host Young Boys of Switzerland next Tuesday in the second round of the prestigious continental competition, continued to play its matches in the absence of many of the main pillars due to injury, the most recent of which is its German international goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen, who joined Dani Olmo, Danish Andreas Christesen, Marc Bernal, and Uruguayan Ronald. Araujo, Fermin Lopez, Dutchman Frenkie de Jong, and Javi.
Barcelona’s balance froze at 21 points, and it became threatened by the two poles of the capital, Madrid, its direct pursuer, and its traditional rival, Real Madrid, the title holder, and Atletico Madrid, who meet “Sunday” at the latter’s stadium at the top of the stage, where the former has the opportunity to reduce the difference to one point and the latter to three points in the event Their victory.
Pedri commented on the loss, saying, “I think we did not play well in the first half, and the first goal we conceded was difficult. We tried in the second half, but it was not enough.
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