Osasuna suffers to get a point against Espanyol (1-1)

Osasuna and Espanyol have tied at one goalin a duel that has had a first part of Navarre dominance, with a goal from Kike Barja in minute 42, and a second act of Catalan reaction, with so much of Nicholas Melamed in 67, four minutes after jumping onto the field.

Osasuna, saved for weeks now and in no man’s land, chained the third game without getting the three points, although he was able to win the added one with a shot to the crossbar of Chimy Avila.

In the first act, Osasuna has been the unappealable dominator of the duel. The team has been ambitious from the start, besieging the local goal with an arrival of Manu Sánchez down the left wing in the second minute.

Aleix Vidal lost a ball that fell at the feet of Ante Budimir and the Croatian attended Kike Barja with a pass into the gap, so that the Navarrese attacker could score.

The Navarrese team lacked success and efficiency in the last third of the field to capitalize on their superiority; unappealable despite the substitutions of fixed men such as Nacho Vidal, Lucas Torró or Chimy Ávila by technical decision, for distributing minutes and titles once the objective of salvation was fulfilled.

With the changes in the second half, Espanyol improved and began to arrive with danger and, after Budimir missed a clear goal chance to sentence the game, it was 1-1.

Melamed jumped onto the green in the 63rd minute and in the 67th minute he received the ball at the edge of the area and unleashed the euphoria at the RCDE Stadium with a shot as far away as it was powerful, to Herrera’s squad.

The team advanced lines, towards the Osasuna area, looking for the winning goal and permanence, but the RCDE Stadium did not see any more goals.

Data sheet

1 – Spanish: Diego Lopez; Aleix Vidal, Calero, Sergi Gómez, Cabrera, Vilhena (Nico Melamed, min. 63); Herrera, Morlanes (Melendo, min. 46), Sergi Darder; Wu Lei (Raúl de Tomás, min. 46) and Puado (Embarba, min. 88).

1-Osasuna: Blacksmith; Ramalho (Rubén García, min. 80), David García, Aridane, Juan Cruz; Moncayola, Darko (Torro, min. 73); Kike Barja (Chimy Ávila, min. 73), Javi Martínez (Oier, min. 63), Manu Sánchez (Nacho Vidal, min. 80); and Budimir.

goals: 0-1: Kike Barja, min. 42. 1-1: Nico Melamed, min. 67.

Referee: Jaime Latre (Aragonese Committee). He admonished the local Vilhena (min. 28) and the visitors Kike Barja (min. 52), Darko (min. 62) and Manu Sánchez (min. 76).