Numancia 1 - Osasuna 0

Numancia: Alvaro Nuñez; Iñaki, Antía, Culebras, David Pirri; Nagore, Pacheta, José Manuel; Rosu (Manel 60'), Ojeda (Caco Morán 70'), Rubén Navarro (Iván Pérez 85'). 4-3-3.
Osasuna: Nuno; Yanguas, Cruchaga, Vidakovic, Jusué (Angel Luis 65'); Gerardo, Alex Fernández, Gancedo, Llorens (Lekumberri 46'); Armentano (Sabino 75'), Iván Rosado. 4-4-2.

Team changes: Numancia: Nuñez, Culebras, David Pirri, Ojeda for Raúl, Manel, Marini, Jaume / Osasuna: Llorens, Armentano for Lekumberri, Angel Luis.

Goals: 1-0. 06. Ojeda. Scrambled ball into goal from close range.

An early goal from Perico Ojeda was enough to give Numancia an important victory against relegation rivals Osasuna. Having gone eight games without a victory this was the Soria based side's last chance to keep their hopes of staying in the top flight alive, and after García Remón became the second manager to be fired at the Pajaritos this season, his erstwhile assistant Celestino Vallejo took over for the first time. Ojeda was one of four changes which the caretaker manager made, with Nuñez returning in goal and two players who had featured little in Goiko and García Remón's plans, Culebras and Pirri, coming in to the back four. Vallejo's opposite number for this match was his old boss at Numancia, Miguel Angel Lotina, and he was confident of getting a result having taken five points from Barcelona, Osasuna and Mallorca in their last three games.

After Rubén Navarro and Ojeda combined for the Argentinian to toe-poke the ball past Nuno, the game descended into a typical relegation struggle, with neither side getting clear chances at goal. Osasuna in fact never got a shot on target in the whole 90 minutes, with their best chance coming when Iván Rosado got free only to see Culebras take the ball off his toe as he was preparing to shoot. Vallejo took off his three front men in the second half, happy with the result which, although still leaving his team at the foot of the table, keeps them in touch with the rest. They are on 32 points, two behind Racing and three now away from Osasuna, who drop back in to the relegation zone after the victory of Real Sociedad.