Deportivo La Coruna vs Osasuna Prediction

Form check: contrasting trajectories

Depor's longer run of matches, covering the summer and before, shows nine wins from twenty games with a healthy goal difference. That sample mixes friendlies and last season's Segunda football in with this year's La Liga games, so it's a broad picture rather than a clean league record. Their current top-flight form has included wins over Valencia and Sevilla, plus draws with Getafe and Real Betis, and they haven't lost back-to-back league games yet.

Deportivo La Coruna: 20 completed matches; Osasuna: 20 completed matches.

Deportivo La Coruna

20 matches

Win

40% 8 / 20

Draw

40% 8 / 20

Loss

20% 4 / 20

Scored

28

Conceded

20

Difference

+8

Osasuna

20 matches

Win

30% 6 / 20

Draw

15% 3 / 20

Loss

55% 11 / 20

Scored

21

Conceded

32

Difference

-11

Osasuna's equivalent sample is rougher: six wins from twenty across competitions, with eleven losses and over thirty goals conceded. Their recent La Liga run has been particularly tough, with heavy defeats at Alaves and Atletico Madrid either side of a home loss to Espanyol, before a draw with Rayo Vallecano steadied things slightly.

Depor look the more settled side of the two heading into this one.

Comparative Team Statistics: Deportivo La Coruna vs Osasuna

A history that doesn't tell us much now

These two have met nine times in the data, stretching from 2010 right through to 2021, across La Liga, the old Segunda División and even a Copa del Rey tie. The most recent meeting was that Copa del Rey game in December 2021, which Osasuna won 2-1 away at Depor. Given how much time has passed and how many different competitions are blended together, this history doesn't say much about where either side actually stands now.

Where they sit in the table

After seven league games each, Depor are seventh with ten points, while Osasuna are down in thirteenth on eight. Depor's goal difference sits at plus two, having scored ten and conceded eight. Osasuna's is a fair bit worse at minus seven, scoring just six and letting in thirteen.

That gap in goals conceded lines up with Osasuna's rougher recent form.

Firepower up front

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has been Depor's main man, with five goals and two assists in seven appearances this season. Ante Budimir has matched him for Osasuna, also netting five in seven, despite his side's wider struggles. Both teams look heavily reliant on one senior striker for their goals.

Deportivo La Coruna:

Best scorers:

P. Aubameyang - 5

Best assist providers:

P. Aubameyang - 2

Penalty cards:

Adrià Alti x 1 x 1

Angeliño x 1

Osasuna:

Best scorers:

A. Budimir - 5

Home strength versus away wobbles

Depor have avoided defeat in their home league games so far this season, winning twice and drawing twice, conceding only three goals in the process. Osasuna's away form reads very differently: one win from three league trips, with ten goals conceded along the way. That contrast between Depor's steady home form and Osasuna's shaky away form is the clearest thread running through this match.