Valuable Points and Villareal campeon

By: Shane | March 31st, 2008

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Cuco Ziganda our manager and ex footballing legend claimed to be very happy after Osasunas away 0-2 victory over Getafe and so am I. With more practical than beautiful football and with a defence tighter than a catalan osasuna broke a bad omen that did not see the Navarran side win away from Pamplona for four months. This of course was helped by a pinch of luck, a helping hand by the referee (for a change) who dismissed getafe’s contra in the first half, and a getafe who’s mind was obviously on their uefa quarter final against Bayern Munich.
With first half goal and first ever for Osasuna by Flano and a second half penalty converted by Punal, Osasuna completed a solid professional performance that leaves them 3 points away from that so important 40 point mark.
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Getafe on the other hand are yet to secure salvation and are faced with a quarter final tie with Bayern Munich on Thursday as well as the Copa del Rey final. This blog wishes them the best of luck.
Next up is another crucial game against fellow strugglers Recreativo in Pamplona. Never mind 6 pointers this baby is a 9 pointer. Recreativo are 18th, in the table with 33 points. Defeat and we are right back in the dog scrap, victory and we reach the 40 point mark with 7 games to spare and we can start preparing for San Fermin. But as they say in Basque Poliki Poiliki and lets just enjoy these 3 precious points for the time being.
In other news and just like in election time seeing as Osasuna wont win the title, I’d like to publicly endorse and support one of the title contenders. Normally I’ d cheer for Barcelona but this year fed up of their inconsistency I’ve decided to support Villarreal, the outsiders, the Ralph Naders of this season, the underdogs.
Villarreal as opposed to tweedledum and tweedledee deserve this years title more than anyone, and here a few reasons why.
1)they are a small team, there budget must be a fraction of Real Madrid or Barcelona.
2)they are always exciting to watch, even for the colour of their jerseys alone
3)they have a Chilean coach and one of the most promising Chilean players in their ranks Pelligrini and Matias Fernandez.
4) Madrid and Barcelona have been crap and deserve to loose the title.
5) ANYONE BUT REAL MADRID….PLEASE!!!!
So there we go, the VILLAREAL for the title and Osasuna to be saved next week!! AUPA OSASUNA Y AUPA EL SUBMARINO AMARILLO.