Barcelona vs Osasuna prediction and betting tips on January 11, 2024
Game Prediction
On Thursday, the main epicentre of football will be... Saudi Arabia! This can be easily explained: it is there, in Riyadh, that the Spanish Super Cup is held. This time, Barcelona and Osasuna will play against each other. The favourite is obvious – will the nominal guests be able to surprise? The expert department of the website has made a prediction for the central match on January 11, 2024.
Barcelona will try to find its meaning
“The Blaugrana” turned the previous season around in this format. Then, at the beginning of 2023, Xavi finally took the trophy as a coach in Catalonia. Having taken a victory in the Super Cup, “more than a club” confidently won the race against its eternal rival, Real Madrid, in the Primera. Still, now “the Catalans” are just as noticeably behind the Los Blancos, and only the long-awaited entry into the Champions League play-offs somehow sweetened the current temporada for the fans and management. It is reasonable to mention that the team literally “snatched” victory even in the struggle with a newcomer to the division, Las Palmas: Gündoğan converted a penalty in the 93rd minute of the game, making the final 2-1 score.
Osasuna has sharply lost ground in the current temporada
“The Pamplonians” declined quite expectedly. Nevertheless, their performances under the leadership of Jagoba Arrasate reached their peak in the previous season – and now those times have simply passed away. Or that might be a jump over head, and now there is a rollback, which is quite sharp and painful. Being the cup finalist and the owner of 7th place of the previous Primera, it was immediately eliminated from the Conference League – Brugge won in Spain. Then, “the Reds” showed the results in the championship that were not even average: in fact, they took a point on average per match, which was enough just not to “hang” around in the relegation zone. It’s not surprising that the team played carefully against Almeria, but, that is the most important, it achieved a final 1-0 score.
Previous head-to-head matches
“The Pamplonians” even won in 2020. Still, then they took only 1 draw in 7 head-to-head matches.
Free prediction for the match Barcelona vs Osasuna on January 11:
“The Culés” should achieve success at least with such an inexperienced and frankly out of shape opponent. We are waiting for the victory of the nominal owners of the arena with “a -1.5 goal handicap” (odd: 1.75).