Laliga Results – Osasuna vs Villarreal: Moreno’s brace lead Villarreal to beat Osasuna by 3-1. Sadar was hosting a duel of needs between two teams with opposite trajectories in the 13 league matches played.
Immersed in the red zone of the table and with only one point achieved from the last 18 in play, Osasuna had no other option but to win against a yellow submarine that, settled in Champions positions, seemed to have taken his foot off the gas in the league, after the last four draws harvested.
Nothing could be further from reality, and that is that Villarreal stepped on him and scored fifth from minute 1 of the game. Unai Emery’s team did not go out to hesitate, determined to gain control and dominance of the game and to corner the rojillos in their own field.
The first five minutes of the game had barely been completed when Fer Niño, who started with Yeremi Pino in the face of the casualties due to injury by Vicente Iborra and Paco Alcácer, filtered a pass to Manu Trigueros and he shattered Osasuna’s defensive line with an assist of book Gerard Moreno.
He did not fail the 7 in the heads up against Rubén Martínez, also a novelty in the eleven replacing Sergio Herrera, defining perfectly with a subtle Vaseline that raised the 0-1 to the light.
Fer Niño was about to make the second after a magnificent long pass from Gerard Moreno, but the play ended up being canceled for offside. Looking again for the back of the defense, Villarreal found gold, in an action that would mark the future of the match.
It was the 18th minute when Niño’s speed got Aridane into trouble, who had no choice but to grab the powerful 20-year-old player when he won the position and was already facing the rival goal. A grab that the Andalusian Figueroa Vázquez interpreted was worthy of a red card, leaving Osasuna outnumbered with the whole game ahead.
Arrasate restructured the team by entering Unai García and sacrificing Juan Cruz, keeping Calleri and Budimir on the field of play as the benchmark offensive duo for his team.
The rojillos’ first and only shot in the first half came to the edge of half an hour of play through Moncayola, after a good play orchestrated by Roberto Torres from the left. The shot went high, however, just a minute later, the sentencing goal for the locals would arrive.
It was the work of Fer Niño, with the assistance of his partner from the subsidiary Yeremi Pino. From 30 to 34. From kid to kid. The two ‘children’ who have made the leap to the first team with Unai Emery demonstrated why they are where they are.
In an exercise of driving, overflowing and speed, Pino skirted the area and, with the right, filtered a pass to Niño, who defined with a low shot before which Rubén could do nothing. The youth team groguet knocking down the door and justifying their coach, who had bet on them before giving in to players of more “name” like Chukwueze or Kubo.