Osasuna-Racing, time to go ahead

Good afternoon, dear Osasunists!Our team start their three consecutive games at El Sadar against Racing Santander, and this game is also the last one before the end of the first leg of La Liga. Osasuna has got 26 points and they are fifth in the championship, therefore they could go to Europe next season. Remember that Osasuna and Racing played in the week for La Copa del Rey. Both lost their matches and were eliminated, but their rivals were completely different. While Osasuna had to struggle against the powerful Barça, and the chairman was very angry after the game in the capital of Barcelona- If Messi is with stomach problems, I have "ball" pains, he said. On the other hand, Racing was eliminated by a second division team: Mirandes and their Hindi chairman, Ali Syed, is missing. The "Reds" from Pamplona, los 'rojillos',have gained 12 points and they haven't lost in their last six games. Osasuna have not lost any game in El Sadar in La Liga, and it was last Thursday against F.C. Barcelona when they lost their first game home. The good news is that Mendilibar can use most of his best players for this afternoon game, except for the great captain Patxi Puñal ( sanctioned ), and apart from the long term injured Roversio Rodrigues, Kike Sola, Masoud Shojaei and Jon Echaide. We should keep El Sadar as the best fortress for our team and we must take into account that Racing is a direct rival for our main target: to avoid relegation to Second Division!! Besides, Racing Santander need to get points for that same aim. They know that Rayo and Zaragoza are pushing up, but their coach, out of the three in charge, also knows that his football players ,and supporters overall, are quite sad and disappointed for their elimination in La Copa del Rey, the manage of the club by their chairman and other things. Let's see what happens this afternoon, but it would be a good opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. First, Osasuna can relegate Racing to lower positions and the team from Pamplona may make their fifth post sure for another week. Kickoff teams: Osasuna: Andrés Fernández; Marc Bertrán or Damià, Sergio, Miguel Flaño, Satrústegui; Nekounam, Timor; Ibrahima, Lamah, Annunziata; Nino. Racing: Toño; Álvaro, Torrejón, Bernardo, Cisma; Munitis, Diop, Colsa, Acosta; Adrián and Stuani. The referee is Clos Gomez ( and by the way, this is the third time he has to lead the game between both teams )

Osasuna-Racing, the northern derby

Good afternoon dear Osasunists! First of all I'm going to apologize for my absence last weekend, but holidays ansd the luck took me to Bavarian lands, Munich. I was lucky few months ago and I won a flight to the city of Bayern Munchen in a radio quiz competition and we finally enjoyed ourselves in the land of the sausages and the beer.
There I found out the victory of Osasuna against Malaga. They finally got their aim too: a victory away. It took 398 days, a coach- Camacho, leave us alone, please!- and many disappointing weekends. There is a nice remind above!
Today Osasuna plays against one of their "black beast" at the Reyno de Navarra: Racing, which is also one of their direct rivals to avoid promotion at the end of the season. But the match seems to be a tough difficult target to obtain the three points against one of the best teams in this last two months. Anyway, it is also a good opportunity for Osasuna to beat other records after the victory in Malaga: the second consecutive victory in a row and to defeat a "black beast" in our history.

Santander is one point ahead from us and it would be great if Osasuna beat them and shorten the gap between both teams. It will be difficult to pay back our visit to El Sardinero and score more than four goals! It would be awesome!!!Remember that Reyno de Navarra stadium is a strong fortress for Osasuna and only the powerful Barça got a victory in the old Sadar.

However, there are many absences in the "Rojillos" team. Apart from the scorer in La Rosaleda, Aranda, Pandiani, Snjurjo and Oier are injured. But, there are also good news for Mendilibar, besides the victory in Malaga, that is the back of Nacho Monreal to the kickoff team.

I hope that the kickoff team of Mendilibar will also include Flaño, Massoud and Leika who give me more confidence than their possible substitutes: Josetxo, Soriano or Sola. All in all, the possible kickoff team might be: Ricardo; Nelson, Lolo, Flaño and Monreal; Puñal, Nekounam, Cejudo, Massoud, Camuñas; and Lekic as the only forward in our team.

Finally, I would like to comment about the referee: Carlos Clos Gómez. We know that most of the matches Osasuna played this season with this person as the judge of the match, there were defeats and many problems for our team. Let's hope things will be different this afternoon!
Gora Osasuna!Aupa Rojillos!

Halloween in Santander and more...

Hello, dear Osasunists! This is a special day for me, as today is my birthday!!!
It's also a special day for those who are related to the English culture as tonight we celebrate the Hallow Eve ( the night of All Saints ), which the Celts brought to celebrate the change of station and the death of their people, and the actual American cinema bussiness became it famous worldwide with films like Halloween or Friday 13.

This is Halloween - Marilyn Manson
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Let's see how it affects our players in Santander. What mask or custome will they use in El Sardinero? Jack-O-Latern? Skeleton? Witch?
What am I talking about? "Izco Jack-O-Latern?" "Skeleton-Dead Team?" "Witch-Camacho?"
It seems that the situation is worse on the other side, in Santander. Their coach,
Miguel Ángel Portugal is seen as a problem there. He's in danger of losing his job after their defeat in Madrid against Mou's team ( not for being expected, but the way it happened ), but overall due to the Copa del Rey defeat against a Second Division team, Cordoba.
In the League, Racing is also in relegation posts, but a victory against Osasuna would change that opinion, and the problem would be reversed. And history is in their side if we take into account the confrontations between Osasuna and Racing.

Racing is the black beast for Ossasuna. Neither Real Madrid nor Barcelona. As some Osasunists unfortunately say we are the perfect team to solve other team problems. And Racing should greet Osasuna for their gifts, in many occasions, but overall at UEFA classifications and Copa del Rey.

Let's bring memories: 2005-06, Osasuna is about to reach second position. Two games to finsih the competition. Racing got three points after losing for many minutes 0-1.
2006-07, Miguel Angel Portugal was the coach there too, in a same position and in danger too. They won and Racing started to climb in the classification. 2007-08, Osasuna and Racing were content. We kept our First Division situation and Santander got their classification for UEFA championship.Cántabros y navarros se vieron las caras en la última jornada de Liga. 2008-09, Cuco was fired. Will it happen the same with his substitute two years later????

But the most harmful for us, Osasuna supporters was last year, in 2009-10, the sour Copa. Racing got a draw at home in the last minute and a clear victory in Pamplona. The worst happened in Copa del Rey. It was in quarter final and after a narrow defeat in Santander (2-1), Osasuna was clearly and harmfully defeated in Pamplona. We the supporters almost booked a trip to Madrid five years after the first and last Final in Copa del Rey.

Let's see what happens this afternoon! Happy Halloween for all you!
Gora Osasuna! Aupa Rojillos!

Osasuna-Racing, an unbearable reminder

Hi, there! Today we are playing against Racing de Santander, the same rival which took Osasuna away from the quarter finals of Copa del Rey.

It was on 27 January, and then I remember I was talking about the idea of forgetting the League and put any effort on the match against Racing to win the passport to semifinals, probably against Atletico de Madrid, which in the end is one of the finalists in the Copa del Rey.

So, now that the dream is over for both teams, Osasuna and Racing must look for other kind of motivation. For Osasuna the match of this evening may be the match of revenge, sue to that former mentioned elimination in Copa del Rey. It's a good reason, then, to go to Reyno de Navarra stadium; but there is also another reason: the points gathered after five matches in League: only two out of 15 points!!

Therefore Osasuna must win this game too. We were talking about looking up in the League classification two months ago, and after the elimination in Copa del Rey and the lack of victories in the League are getting us, the supporters, nervous as we see that our prosecutors in the championship are winning their matches, as they are more concentrated on their games, and Osasuna players are losing their matches and opportunities to make sure they will be in First Division next season and then searching for other targets like Europe.

Let's see what happens this afternoon, but Osasuna killers, I mean forwards like Pandiani and Aranda are injured, and Camacho is going to use a new attack: Galan and Camuñas. The first one must show that the future is in Tajonar too and Izco mustn't visit abroad Leagues to find a new killer for next year.

Probable kickoff teams:
Osasuna: Roberto, Josetxo, Flaño, Azpilicueta, Monreal, Puñal, Nekounam, Juanfran, Masoud, Camuñas and J. Galán.

Racing: Coltorti, Moratón, Oriol, Pinillos, Christian, Diop, Colsa, T. Moral, Munitis, Canales and Tchité.

The match starts at 17:00 and the referee is González González.

Gora Osasuna! Aupa Rojillos!