The Croatian ahead Ante Budimir scored twice to assist Osasuna earn a shock 4-2 dwelling win over leaders Barcelona and hand the guests their first defeat of this La Liga season on Saturday.
Bryan Zaragoza, on mortgage from Bayern Munich, crossed to Budimir who opened the scoring with a close-range header within the 18th minute and the 23-year-old winger prolonged Osasuna’s lead with a strike from a fast counterattack 10 minutes later.
Barça diminished the deficit thanks to blunder by the Osasuna goalkeeper Sergio Herrera, who failed to hold out a weak strike from Pau Víctor within the second half, however Budimir prolonged the hosts’ lead from the penalty spot within the 72nd minute, after he was fouled contained in the field.
The substitute Abel Bretones scored the fourth with a sensible strike from lengthy vary, earlier than Lamine Yamal scored a late comfort with a shot from the sting of the field. Barça nonetheless high the standings on 21 factors, 4 forward of second-placed Real Madrid who face Atlético Madrid in Sunday’s derby.
The Barcelona head coach, Hansi Flick, stated the defeat was “my responsibility” for resting too many key gamers. “I tried to protect the players, because they have been playing a lot of minutes. But I didn’t expect us to play like this. We made a lot of mistakes and Osasuna did well.”
Real Sociedad ended their four-game dwelling shedding streak in La Liga, beating Valencia 3-0 on the Anoeta. Takefusa Kubo opened the scoring within the eighth minute however the factors weren't protected till substitute Orri Óskarsson struck twice within the final 10 minutes. Valencia drop again into the relegation zone after Getafe noticed off Alavés 2-0 at dwelling for his or her first win of the season.
Dusan Vlahovic scored twice to assist Juventus 3-0 win at Genoa and rise to high spot in a single day in Serie A, overtaking Inter, who had earlier briefly gone high after a double from Lautaro Martínez helped them win 3-2 at Udinese.
Vlahovic transformed from the spot when Juventus had been awarded a penalty for a handball quickly after half-time earlier than he scored once more within the fifty fifth minute from a tight angle. The substitute Francisco Conceiçao sealed the win with a low, one-touch end late on.
The recreation in Genoa was performed behind closed doorways after crowd violence throughout the hosts’ Coppa Italia derby towards Sampdoria left greater than 50 folks injured. Juventus, who drew every of their final three league video games 0-0, high the desk with 12 factors from six video games, one level forward of Torino, who host Lazio on Sunday.
The Juventus coach, Thiago Motta, hit again at criticism of Vlahovic after the sport. “I think you pay too much attention to a single player,” Motta stated. “He has always been very good. I understand the expectations and needs of a striker at this level. But as I said from the beginning, he is a positive leader who helps a lot.
“I am happy because he scored but I was also happy when he didn’t. He must improve and be more connected with the team because he is an important player in many aspects of our game. He is fine and must continue to work as he is doing.”
Lautaro Martínez scored both facet of half-time, serving to Inter to a 3-2 win at Udinese in Serie A, because the defending champions bounced again to end a three-game winless run in all competitions.
Davide Frattesi put Inter in entrance after 43 seconds from an glorious low cross by Matteo Darmian earlier than the Udinese defender Christian Kabasele levelled with a header. Martínez restored the lead for the guests as he bundled the ball over the road in first-half stoppage time after which made it 3-1 simply after the break. Lorenzo Lucca pulled one again for Udinese within the 83rd minute.
Later on Saturday, Atalanta grabbed a level towards 10-man Bologna within the ninetieth minute thanks to Lazar Samardzic. The hosts scored via Santiago Castro simply after half-time earlier than defender Jhon Lucumi was despatched off.
In Ligue 1, Monaco maintained their unbeaten start as Lamine Camara’s stoppage-time strike earned a 2-1 victory over Montpellier. The guests took a shock lead via Rabby Nzingoula within the sixteenth minute, with Folarin Balogun levelling within the first half earlier than Camara’s last-gasp winner. Lille are up to fourth after Jonathan David’s hat-trick earned a 3-0 victory at Le Havre.
