Deportivo La Coruna and Osasuna meet at ABANCA Riazor on Monday at 21.00 in the last match of the eleventh round of La Liga EA Sports. Both clubs arrive on 11 points, but the sharper concern is Deportivo's six-game league winless run and Osasuna's thin return away from home.
Deportivo's form and Aubameyang's fitness
Deportivo have gone six league matches without a win, with three draws and three defeats. They have taken 11 points from 10 matches, so this is not a side in freefall, but it is one that has not turned enough of its draws into something more useful.
The team news adds another layer. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang was injured at the end of September and is in the final stretch of his recovery from knee meniscus surgery. Antonio Hidalgo said, through Europa Press, that Deportivo will still be without Marc Casadó, Zakaria Eddahchouri and Bright Ede, and probably not Aubameyang either, despite the fact that he has returned to work with the group.
Osasuna's away record
Osasuna are also on 11 points, and their league table position leaves them two points above the danger positions and six points off the European zone. Their away form is the obvious worry. They have won only one away league match this season, and Sports Mole's preview warns that they have shipped 17 goals across their opening five road trips in La Liga.
Europa Press and Sports Mole describe that away run differently, with one framing the Celta Vigo win as Osasuna's only away league victory and the other stressing four straight away defeats since that result. Either way, the road numbers are poor enough to make Riazor a tricky assignment.
Deportivo vs Osasuna is still a match between two sides level on points, but the home team carry the more obvious need for a response. If Deportivo want to stop the slide, they have a chance to do it against an opponent who has struggled badly on the road and may also have to do it without Aubameyang.
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