MADRID, 4 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Osasuna, with a solitary goal from Croatian Ante Budimir, beat Deportivo Alavés in El Sadar this Monday (1-0) in the last match of the twenty-seventh day of LaLiga EA Sports, a result that allows Jagoba’s men to Arrasate get closer to the positions for access to European competition.
In a frenetic first half in Pamplona, the Basque team warned in the first minutes with a couple of chances from the Uruguayan Carlos Benavídez and Jon Guridi, before the injuries of Kike Barja, for the locals before the quarter of an hour, and Moroccan Abdel Abqar, in the visiting team in the 23rd minute, changed the course of the match.
The Navarrese, with a shot from Lucas Torró and a header from David García, fueled the fight, and Antonio Sivera saved his team with two interventions, one from a shot by Aimar Oroz and another with a save against Budimir. Just before half-time, Samu Omorodion hit the post with the clearest chance of the first 45 minutes.
After the restart, Sergio Herrera thwarted Luis Rioja’s and Samu’s shots from outside the area, and the babazorro goalkeeper responded by thwarting Rubén García’s point-blank shot.
However, Sivera could do nothing in the 76th minute against the genius of the Croatian Ante Budimir, who looked for the top corner from outside the area and lodged the ball in the back of the net to leave the three points in Pamplona.
With this, the red team adds its third victory in the last four games and goes four days without losing to reach 36 points, six away from the European positions. Alavés, for its part, has gone five games without winning and is left with 29 points, ten more than those that mark the relegation zone.