Barcelona vs Osasuna prediction: SPAIN: LaLiga betting tips on match 2025-03-07 20:00.
[p]Unbeaten across all competitions in 2025 (W13, D3), top-of-the-table Barcelona are targeting their seventh successive La Liga victory this weekend. Across that winning streak, their defence has been breached only twice and they come into this weekend’s clash with Osasuna on a run of three successive clean sheets in the league, while they secured another shutout in a 1-0 victory at Benfica in midweek UEFA Champions League action despite playing with ten men from the 22nd minute![/p]
[p]They haven’t conceded in any of their last four home H2Hs against Osasuna (W4), but it is in front of goal where Barca have been most impressive this season. They are the first team to score 71+ goals after 26 games of a La Liga campaign since they hit 76 at this stage in 2016/17, with that goal tally aided by scoring four times in each of their last two home fixtures.[/p]
[p]Los Rojillos are far less prolific, hitting the back of the net only 32 times in the league, and away from home they have scored on just seven occasions, the joint-lowest of any side in La Liga ahead of this gameweek. Without a win from their last four games on the road across all competitions, you’d have to go back to round 11 to find their solitary away victory in the league this season (D6, L5).[/p]
[p]Osasuna also picked up three points in round 12 to propel themselves to fourth in La Liga, but since then have won only one of 14 top-flight games (D9, L4). They begin this round in 11th, still only five points from the European places and with the opportunity to create history by completing their first-ever double over Barcelona, who they beat 4-2 in September’s reverse fixture.[/p]
[p]Players to watch: Gerard MartĂn got Barca’s opener in their last home game and also assisted their first goal in September’s H2H. Ante Budimir scored twice in that match and has seven goal contributions (G6, A1) across his last nine appearances. He scored from the penalty spot last weekend to become Osasuna’s all-time leading goalscorer in La Liga![/p]
[p]Hot stat: Barcelona have conceded a first-half goal in only one of their last eleven La Liga home games (W8, L3).[/p]
[p][i]Written by Tom Penn[/i][/p]