Osasuna and Villarreal tied in Arrasate bye and Sorloth ‘lost’

There are no more and at least 256 official meetings left Jagoba Arrasate as a coach Osasuna. The Berriatua coach entered The Conscious in the summer of 2018, with the Navarrese team in the Second Division. He achieved promotion to the first division and then had five consecutive seasons in the highest division of Spanish football. But every story, no matter how beautiful, has an end, and of get lost and Osasuna his conclave came to life this Saturday, with a 1-1 draw against Villarreal inconsequential in terms of classification but there is a big defeat in the figure of Alexander Sorloth.

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The Norwegian striker Villarreal jump on the green The Conscious predisposed to fight for the ‘Pichichi’ of LaLiga knowing that Dovbyk he scored a hat-trick this Friday in Girona-Granada and that, therefore, he needs to score a goal to tie with the Ukrainian. Two (or more) to surpass him and take the trophy alone. But in the 14th minute of the game he was forced to leave the field due to injury. This was just after feeling a puncture in his right thigh after a shot on goal with his left leg. He could have breathed a sigh of relief Dovbyk from Girona when it was verified at the same moment that he will go down in history as the top scorer in LaLiga 2023/24 with 24 goals. Sorloth It remained at 23.

When the match ended for ‘Pichichi’ before time, the ball continued to roll on the green of The Conscious together Osasuna and Villarreal trying to honor football for the love of the game itself and without looking at the classification. And of these appeared Budimir, the ‘Pichichi’ of the local team, to score in the 30th minute what was his 17th goal in this edition of LaLiga. This is when he finished a cross inside the area Ruben Pena from the right wing and, as this could not happen, as soon as the ball crossed the goal line he went to the bench to assign it to get lost.

From there, with a deficit on the scoreboard, the Villarreal He kicked into extra gear, and although he couldn’t equalize before the break, the ‘submarine’ found an equalizer in the second half. The same appeared Alex Baenathat leaked a pass between the lines so that Jose Luis Morales lose Pepe Reina in heads-up (57′). He has distributed no more and no less than 14 assists in this League. Baena who maintained the hope of being summoned on Monday next by Luis de la Fuente to compete in the Euro Cup.

With half an hour remaining, everyone seemed to consider the tie a good one and the scoreboard never moved again. get lost said goodbye to Osasuna and no doubt what a long shadow it will be. His successor has yet to be confirmed, but whoever it is, it will not be easy to emulate the good work of Jagoba in El Sadar.