As soon as the game ended, the Osasuna players came to jump on

Sergio Herrera

, their goalkeeper, the main culprit that

Villarreal

saw their streak of six consecutive victories truncated -between the League and Europe- and that the Navarrese see closer the goal of permanence.

Unai Emery's team

tried until the last minute

but the Burgos goalkeeper never let his guard down.

There is that spectacular stretch in 95 to take a shot from Trigueros that the squad was looking for.

The only goal he conceded was made by a teammate, David García, between the two goals with which the Navarrese took the three points (1-2) from the Estadio de la Cerámica.

The team

Jagoba Arrasate

is one of those uncomfortable with rivals that are difficult to

play.

His lack of goal makes up for it with an iron defense that accumulated 277 minutes with a clean sheet.

In addition, Emery had left

Gerard

on the bench

, a footballer with an enormous weight in all of the offensive football of the yellows.

The meeting had not yet come to rest when the Hondarribia coach sent the Catalan to warm up, given the problems his team was having against a

very orderly

Osasuna

.

There were not too many dangerous actions by Villarreal in the first half, almost always ruined by the solvent

Aridane and David García

.

The central defender from Pamplona deflected one of the clearest options for the Castellón players with his foot, after a good action in the area of ​​Paco Alcácer, who yielded for the arrival of Rubén Peña.

Where the Navarrese defense did not reach, their goalkeeper did, who took a shot from Moi Gómez and the subsequent free-kick from Parejo after the controversial action of the match.

Costa was

looking for the rejection of Herrera when he fell before

Nacho Vidal's

grip

.

Munuera Montero signaled a penalty but the VAR review took the foul out of the area.

Osasuna's good defensive work lacked a bit of spice upstairs.

He barely approached Asenjo's goal beyond an action by Budimir, who was about to take advantage of Parejo's cold blood when trying to get the ball out of his area.

The Navarrese managed to recover several dangerous balls with their high pressure but they did not take much advantage of them.

The entry into the scene of

Pedraza

and, above all, of Gerard to start the second half significantly varied the game, with a Villarreal that took a decisive step forward and an Osasuna that no longer defended so comfortably.

It is difficult to tie a striker like the Catalan short, capable of moving anywhere on the pitch, of generating, assisting and finishing.

He did everything in the 45 minutes that Emery gave him, starting with a pass that left

Alcácer

hand in hand with Herrera, who won the duel.

The Valencian did almost everything well in the game but did not just find the goal.

Neither did Gerard, who also ran into Herrera when acrobatic finishing off a center from Pedraza, which gave more depth to the left wing.

And right in the next action came Osasuna's goal, born in a ball that was stolen from Gerard, who claimed a foul.

Manu Sánchez ran down the band and crossed for

Moncayola to

splice a volley adjusting the ball to the post.

Villarreal was soon rebuilt, which equalized after David García deflected Gerard's pass to his goal, which circumvented the offside, as ratified by the VAR.

With the game in full swing, Osasuna responded again with a superb header from

Budimir

after a corner kick that returned to overtake the Navarrese.

An advantage that the Arrasate team would no longer lose thanks to its goalkeeper.

Herrera took out the umbrella to protect his people from Villarreal's final downpour.

Neither Fer Niño nor Moi nor Trigueros could get wet.

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