Osasuna 0 - Valencia 0

Osasuna: Unzué; Yanguas (Olarra 46'), Cruchaga, Contreras, Mateo; Puñal, Gancedo; Alfredo, Iván Rosado, Fernando; Armentano (Sabino 65'). 4-2-3-1.
Valencia: Palop; Curro Torres, Navarro, Pellegrino, Carboni; Rufete (Mista 77'), Djukic, Albelda, Angulo; Juan Sánchez (Dennis Serban 84'), Salva Ballesta (Carew 68'). 4-4-2.

Team changes: Osasuna: Fernando, Armentano for Rivero, Aloisi / Valencia: Navarro, Djukic, Angulo for Ayala, Kily González, Aimar.

Goals: None.

Valencia maintained their unbeaten record this season in all competitions with their sixth away draw in a row. With many international fixtures on this week, Rafa Benítez was forced to cobble together a side with B team defender Navarro playing in the back four, Djukic playing in midfield alongside Albelda (who was given pain killing injections in his injured foot), and Angulo on the left. Osasuna were missing Australian international Aloisi, who will be out for a couple of weeks playing for his country. It was a dull game without goals, in which the only interesting moments were provided by referee Daudén Ibáñez. He awarded a penalty in the first half to the visitors and then changed his mind after talking to both linesmen, and then disallowed a goal by Carew in the closing minutes.

Other than that the best chances came from an Angulo deflected shot which Unzué saved in the first half and a Juan Sánchez free kick in the second, with Osasuna replying with a couple of efforts by Iván Rosado and a centre by Mateo in injury time which Palop had to tip clear as the strong wind took it towards the goal. Valencia have not lost in the league in Pamplona for fifteen years and they drop to third, behind Barcelona on goal average. Osasuna rise to twelfth, although with so many teams so close together, they are only two points above eighteenth placed Tenerife.