The reappearance of the Argentine Chimy Avila in the call for Osasuna, after 421 days absent due to injury, marks the game this Saturday against the Huesca in The Alcoraz.
The team from Huesca is only worth the victory, since they cannot afford to miss any point at home if they want to continue having options to stay, while the Navarrese team also sees the clash as capital. You want to overcome the 30 point barrier.
The game is especially important for the Catalans, who have to get half of the points at stake in the eleven games that remain to be played until the end of the championship if they wish to continue next season in First division.
The Alto Aragonese team is going to be measured against a rival who fights for the same objective, to maintain the category, and that, therefore, is from the same League, although the Navarrese team is in a more comfortable position since it has six points advantage over the relegation zone. The Huesca, on the contrary, it is bottom.
Even so, and with the amount of points that are still at stake, the points could be worth double, in addition to taking into account the particular difference, in case in the end there was a tie on points in the classification.
José Rojo “Pacheta”, Coach of the Huesca, will have at his disposal for this game the entire squad as the players who had physical problems have recovered, except the left-handed central defender Gaston silva, who is still recovering from the injury that occurred to his right ankle in February in the game against Seville.
No changes are foreseen in the team facing the Osasuna in relation to the last games, since the coach of the Alto Aragonese team has maintained since he took charge of the team almost all the players that he considers starters, and only two or three are substituted but always counting on them both in the eleven initial as in substitutions.
Recovery of Sandro Ramirez and of Pedro MosqueraHowever, it could grant them options to play. The first could do it even at the beginning while the second would do it during the meeting.
The actuality of Osasuna, for its part, is marked by the return of Chimy Avila to a call 421 days later.
“He is not yet in his best version, as is normal. Charging him with responsibility is not good or fair, it will not be the savior of anything and he knows that from a call he can also help. He wants to give us goals, but everything will come in due time ”, commented the coach of the Osasuna, Jagoba Arrasate, on the convocation of the Chimy Avila.
The Rosario striker will sit on the bench in front of his former team after having struggled in recent months to return as soon as possible with his teammates after being injured for the second time on September 9.
Everything indicates that he will have minutes next week in the friendly that Eibar Y Osasuna They will dispute in Mondragón. His presence in The Alcoraz it will serve to get into group dynamics.
The Navarrese come to this new league match after drawing at home against him Valladolid in a game in which the three points could opt for either of the two teams if they were not of the poor efficiency of the door.
Osasuna does not want problems at the end of the season, so he will seek to get rid of a rival who has shown a clear improvement since the arrival of Pacheta to the Huesca bench.
In the first round match, the Alto Aragonese dominated Osasuna for much of the match, enjoying the best chances despite the final draw.
The poor scoring baggage of Osasuna (a goal in the last four days) makes the spotlight on the Argentine Jonathan Calleri and the Croatian Ante Budimir, footballers called to have a great weight in the season since their arrival in Chopping.
“In the last few days it is costing us and we are going to work so that the team generates more and thus be closer to scoring goals,” he commented to the coach.
Sweep yourself you can count on Oier, Roberto torres Y Unai Garcia after giving negative in the PCR test to which the three homegrown players underwent yesterday after missing the game against Pucela when they were confined.
On the other hand, the red goalkeeper Juan Perez you will have a very special afternoon. The Aragonese will return home to start as a starter due to the loss of Sergio Herrera. The goalkeeper of Miranda de Ebro will miss the crash after having contact with a positive in Covid-19 last weekend.