Girona vs Osasuna Prediction & Betting Tips (29 August)

The confirmation season is always tough, especially when you can't keep your key players and you have to start from scratch or almost. Last year, this team shone and amazed football fans by finishing the season on the last step of the podium behind Real Madrid and FC Barcelona. With qualification for the Champions League, the Blanquivermells could suffer since juggling two competitions is never easy. Without mentioning the C1 which has not yet started, the Catalans are already in the dark and they still have not won after two matches played on the road against Real Bétis during the J1 1-1 and a volley on Sunday evening to close the 2nd day on the pitch of Atlético Madrid 3-0.

After two seasons full of panache and ambitions, Osasuna faded somewhat last year in 11th place. Suffice to say that the Rojillos intend to repair the shortcomings present in their game last year and to once again become candidates for the first half of the table this season. Already, we know that they will make this trip being for the moment undefeated in the league with an opening draw against the promoted and champion of the 2nd division, Leganes 1-1 and a short success last weekend against the Mallorcans, pumped up after their draw against Real Madrid at La Palma a week earlier 1-0.

Before talking about the rather chaotic transfer window with crucial departures, let's talk about the state of health of the players. Artero and Jastin (often OUT last year) will probably be forced to leave their place in the group just like Valery. How to create a long-term project when your top scorer and Pichichi from LaLiga last year leaves despite qualifying for the LDC... We are obviously talking about Dovbyk (AS Roma), without forgetting to mention the metronome in the midfield , Aleix Garcia (Bayer Leverkusen) or the loan returns of Pablo Torre and Eric Garcia to Barcelona. The Brazilians Yann Couto (8 goals last year) and Savio (8 goals, 7 assists last season) left for City during the summer window without forgetting to mention the loss of crack Victor Pau (FC Barcelona). So yes, Donny Van de Beek, Romeu (Barcelona, ​​loan), Bryan Gil (Tottenham, loan), Pau Lopez (OM), Abel Ruiz (Braga, transfer), Misehouy (7 goals, 3 assists with the youngsters of 'Ajax last year), Frances (defender, Zaragoza) and lastly the Colombian crack Asprillant, have set down their bags, but it is clearly a tone below all the days mentioned above.

During the weekend, the club formalized the departures of Ilyas Chaira (Oviedo, loan) and Toni Villa (free from any contract). In Osasuna, Arnaiz, Ruben Pena and Areso are likely to miss this trip (injured) while Kike Barja (cruciate ligament rupture) and Iker Munoz (metatarsal fracture) will indeed be OUT. Against Mallorca, while we were waiting for Ante Budimir, it was left winger Garcia who scored the winning goal. During the transfer window, Osasuna was not very active in both directions. We still note the losses of Yoldi (12 goals with the reserves last year), defenders David Garcia (27 appearances in La Liga last year) and Mojica (Colombian international, 3 assists in the league last year). pass). In the cross chase, the crack Zaragoza (on loan from Bayern) landed.