Real Madrid ultimately discovered two late targets to interrupt Osasuna’s fierce resistance and go inside 5 factors of La Liga leaders Barcelona with a 2-0 away victory on Saturday night time.
The dwelling aspect managed to frustrate the Spanish champions till the 78th minute, when Federico Valverde arrived within the field to slip in Vinicius Junior’s cross.
Vinicius had a strike chalked off for offside earlier than Marco Asensio sealed the win, ending from shut vary after Real received the ball excessive up the pitch.
Los Blancos’ greatest probability of the primary half fell to Vinicius after a poor again cross from Jon Moncayola, however his effort was smothered by Sergio Herrera.
Osasuna did attempt to get pictures away and went shut by way of Ante Budimir, however the Croatian’s strike from the sting of the field missed the goal.
Vinicius and compatriot Rodrygo seemed electrical in assault, with the latter curling simply extensive of the far nook earlier than Vinicius noticed the primary of two targets disallowed for offside.
Moi Gomez hit the submit after beating Valverde and Moncayola despatched an formidable volley solely barely off beam as Osasuna sniffed an upset within the second half.
However, their defence gave up probabilities too simply and have been fortunate to not be punished when Vinicius was denied by onrushing goalie Herrera following one other blunder within the Osasuna backline.
They would not be so fortunate moments later as Vinicius ran down the wing and centred to Valverde, who timed his run completely to divert the ball into the far nook.
Osasuna unsuccessfully begged for handball and a penalty when Abde Ezzalzouli’s cross hit Dani Carvajal earlier than Vinicius was once more denied by the offside flag.
Real ultimately received their second when 18-year-old substitute Alvaro Rodriguez received possession excessive up the pitch and fed Asensio to place Real 2-0 up forward of rivals Barcelona’s conflict with Cadiz on Sunday.
GK: Herrera (5); RB: Moncayola (5), CB: U. Garcia (4), CB: D. Garcia (6), LB: Sanchez (6); CM: Gomez (6), CM: Torro (6); RW: R. Garcia (6), AM: Brasanac (5), LW: Ezzalzouli (5); ST: Budimir (6)
Subs: Moreno (5), Oroz (5), Barja (N/A), Kike (N/A)
GK: Courtois (8); RB: Nacho (8), CB: Militao (7), CB: Rudiger (7), LB: Alaba (7); CM: Modric (7), CM: Camavinga (8); CM: Ceballos (7); RW: Valverde (8), ST: Rodrygo (6); ST: Vinicius (8)
Subs: Asensio (8), Carvajal (6), Rodriguez (7).