Osasuna 2-1 Real Madrid: Budimir 38, Garcia 90; Vinicius 73
Real Madrid will be left wondering how they were first in the league yet second best against Osasuna. A controversial opening penalty scored by Ante Budimir went so long without reply, and even after Vinicius responded, Madrid were punished for careless defending in stoppage time as the home side secured an incredible victory, their fourth in six games.
The defeat in Pamplona leaves Madrid’s leadership of La Liga at the mercy of Barcelona, who will reclaim the position they conceded a week ago if they defeat Levante at Camp Nou.
Osasuna started brightly. Ruben Garcia’s cross was directed towards goal from a mix-up between Budimir and Madrid’s Alvaro Carreras, but Thibaut Courtois reacted incredibly quickly to claw it away. Moments later, Budimir’s header was goal-bound before Courtois again intervened.
There was very little from the visitors. Mbappe tested Sergio Herrera from distance before Osasuna were awarded a penalty, after Budimir was adjudged to have been tripped by an onrushing Courtois.
The forward was initially given a yellow card for what looked to the eye like a simulation, but VAR surprisingly suggested it was a penalty and the referee concurred. Budimir stepped up to convert.
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Madrid were reeling now, but Los Blancos also failed to find inspiration worthy of a side top of the league table. Aurelien Tchouameni’s effort was palmed over the bar by Herrera and Arda Guler could not keep his piercing shot down.
In the second period Mbappe was ruled to have been offside after finding the top corner, and Madrid huffed and puffed until Vinicius Junior banished the ghosts of the midweek affair against Benfica to convert from Federico Valverde’s cross, pulling his side level with 17 minutes to go in normal time.
Cue relief on the white bench but it was short lived. Madrid searched for a winning goal but it was Osasuna who would find it. Raul Garcia, on for Budimir, ran through and dispatched the lunging Raul Asencio, before skipping past a slow Trent Alexander-Arnold to dink the ball cutely beyond Courtois. The goal was initially chalked off for offside. A VAR review intervened.
