It’s certainly a shop-worn cliche in sports, but it’s true: it’s getting late, early. What that means, basically, is despite their being a lot of season left, time is running out towards achieving the aspired goals. For Real Madrid, they enter the weekend clash with Osasuna nine points behind arch-rivals FC Barcelona at the top of the La Liga table.
While they do have a game in hand on the Blaugranes, they’ve already blown their best chance to directly gain points on them, having been annihilated in the home edition of El Clasico this campaign.
Osasuna at Real Madrid FYIs
Kickoff: Sat. Nov. 9, 2pm, Estadio Santiago Bernabeu
Real Madrid Preview Material: Starting XI Prediction Team News
LL Position, Form: Real Madrid 2nd, 24 pts, WDWWL Osasuna 5th, 21 pts, WDLWW
Google Result Probability: Real Madrid 82% Draw 12% Osasuna 6%
Things don’t look good in the Champions League either, after they just got thrashed by AC Milan in midweek. They are in line to advance to the playoff portion, in that competition, but they are fall below the next round automatic qualification line.
Real Madrid Starting XI Prediction vs Osasuna
Andriy Lunin; Lucas Vazquez, Eder Militao, Antonio Rudiger, Ferland Mendy; Federico Valverde, Luka Modric, Eduardo Camavinga; Jude Bellingham; Vinicius Jr., Kylian Mbappe
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