Osasuna receives Espanyol on Sunday at 19:00 in the 37th round of the league, with both sides level on 42 points and still without a safety guarantee for next season. The meeting comes in the penultimate round of the competition, a late-season fixture with the table still packed tightly enough that a slip can change everything.
For Osasuna, the numbers have turned sharply in recent days. The team has dropped nine points in its last three matches and is now finishing the league while waiting on the results of rivals and the relegation battle. That leaves Sunday’s osasuna - rcd espanyol clash with more at stake than a routine end-of-season fixture, even though neither side has enough margin to relax.
Osasuna had been trying to keep pace in the fight for European qualification, but that run has faded and the focus has shifted to what others do elsewhere. Espanyol arrives with the same 42-point total, and in a season where the standings are tighter than usual, that figure does not ensure a place in Primera División next year.
The match can be followed from 18:30 on Carrusel Deportivo Navarra through SER+, with video coverage also available on sernavarra.com and the Cadena SER app. That early broadcast window turns Sunday into a full evening of waiting for both clubs, because the result will not only shape this game but also help define how the closing stages of the campaign look across the bottom half of the table.
The tension is simple. Osasuna is at home, but home advantage has less value when the season has reached this point and the margins are this thin. One bad result can leave a club depending on everyone else, and that is the position Osasuna has been pushed into after giving away nine points across its last three matches.
What comes next is no longer about chasing a bigger target. It is about whether Osasuna can finish the league with enough control to avoid being pulled deeper into the relegation fight, and whether 42 points proves sufficient when the final accounting is done.
