The city of Pamplona comes alive as Osasuna welcomes Sevilla to the Estadio El Sadar in the first LaLiga game for the 2022/2023 season.
The just concluded LaLiga season saw Sevilla finish in fourth place, one point behind Atletico Madrid while the Los Nervionenses finished in tenth place.
Osasuna we’re promoted to the LaLiga in the 2019/2020 season as they were crowned champions in the Segunda Division in the 2018/2019 season. Since their promotion, they’ve finished their previous three LaLiga campaigns in 10th,11th and 10th places respectively.
In preparations for the new LaLiga season, Osasuna had participated in 7 preseason friendlies where they had recorded three wins in their last three games against Feyenoord, Burgos and Mirandes. On the other hand, Champions League side, Sevilla had taken part in six friendlies where they had gotten back to winning ways against Cadiz(ended 1-0 in favor of Sevilla) after consecutive losses to Arsenal and Leicester City.
Jagoba Arrasate’s side played out a goal less draw with Sevilla in February but they’ve failed to beat the Champions League side in LaLiga since 2013.
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New signings such as Moi Gomez, Manu Sanchez and Reuben Pena are set to boost the squad (pushing for their debuts) asCote , Oier Sanjurjo and Marc Cardona have departed from Osasuna.
Osasuna will be without the services of Kike Saveiro, Aitor Fernandez and Arte Budimer.
Lucas Torro and Darko Brasanac are expected to start in midfield while Kike Garcia could be joined in the final third of the field by Reuben Garcia and Ezequiel Avila.
Sevilla have lost some players such as Jules Kounde and Diego Carlos. Meanwhile, Marcoco has arrived from Galatasaray while Alex Telles has moved on loan from Manchester United. Isco has joined Sevilla from Real Madrid on free transfer.
Sevilla are expected to hand debuts to Marcao and Telles.
Rafa Mir is battling En-Nesyri for the centre-forward position while Jesus Navas and Karim Rakik are likely to start alongside Marcao and Telles at the back.
Osasuna possible starting lineup:
Herrera; Pena, U Garcia, D Garcia, Sanchez; Brasanac, Torro, M Gomez; R Garcia, Kike Garcia, Avila
Sevilla possible starting lineup:
Bounou; Navas, Marcao, Rekik, Telles; Delaney, Rakitic, Jordan; Ocampos, Rafa Mir, Corona
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