Barça visit El Sadar this Sunday forced to win if he does not want to see how the options of assaulting the first positions of the classification get more and more complicated. The Barça team, who already added the three points last season in the Osasuna fiefdom, need a victory, where he hasn’t lost for almost a decade. The last defeat (3-2) it was in February 2012, in the last season with Pep Guardiola on the bench. Since then, since the ‘rojillos’ in between have played four seasons in the Second Division, they have visited El Sadar five times, all in LaLiga, and have reaped three wins and two draws.
It was a tough defeat that of February 11, 2012. Two goals from Lekic put the Navarrese team ahead in the initial stretch of the game (4 ‘and 22’) and despite the reaction after the Barça break, with a goal from Alexis Sánchez (51 ‘), Osasuna responded again with a goal from Raúl García (56’). Tello, with just over a quarter of an hour to go (73 ‘), gave Barça hope again, which ended up losing and seeing how the next day Real Madrid moved away in the lead to 10 points, thus putting the league title on track, on matchday 22, which would end up almost sentencing with a victory at the Camp Nou months later.
In the next two seasons, Barça scored a victory (1-2), in the season with Tito Vilanova, with two goals from Messi, who turned the score around, and a goalless draw, already with the Tata Martino. After Osasuna passed through Second for two years, Barça’s next visit to El Sadar was already in the last season with Luis Enrique. A goal from Luis Suárez and two from Messi, all in the second half, gave the Catalan team the victory (0-3). Osasuna descended again after that course and it also took two years to climb again. On their return to Pamplona, in the 2019/20 season, Barça tied (2-2) with goals from Ansu Fati, who at 16 years and 304 days, became the youngest scorer of the club in the league, and Arthur. In the last precedent, in March of this 2021, the Barcelona team won 0-2 with goals from Jordi Alba and Ilaix Moriba.
Last visits to El Sadar
SEASON 2012/13:
Osasuna-Barça 1-2 (J.Llorente, 17 ‘/ Messi, 76’ and 80 ‘)
SEASON 2013/14:
Osasuna-Barça 0-0
SEASON 2016/17:
Osasuna-Barça 0-3 (Luis Suárez, 52 ‘; Messi, 79’ and 90 ‘)
SEASON 2019/20:
Osasuna-Barça 2-2 (R. Torres, 7 ‘and 81’ / Ansu Fati, 51 ‘; Arthur, 64’)
SEASON 2020/21:
Osasuna-Barça 0-2 (Jordi Alba, 30 ‘; Ilaix, 86’)
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