Prophecies look bleak ahead of FC Barcelona's weekend make-or-mar La Liga clash with Osasuna.


Former Osasuna man, Juan Carlos Unzue has warned ahead of the weekend La Liga game involving FC Barcelona and Osasuna in Pamplona, the home ground of Osasuna which is notorious for it's miserly disbursement of funds to visiting teams. Neither Unzue, who is now the goalkeeper trainer at barcelona, nor the Barca players expect an easy match on Sunday. Unzue says:

Osasuna’s way of playing makes it tough for any visiting team. Skill and technique aren’t enough to win in Pamplona. You really need to work as hard as or even harder than they do. It doesn’t matter who’s in charge there or what new players they sign. Their game idealogy remains the same and has not changed.

Juan spoke on the need for Barca to look ahead and not let any past results hunt them. In particular, the goalless draw against Santander during the opening day of the La Liga has tied Barca down to four points, two behins the top teams in the Primera. Unzue wants to look ahead:

The match against Racing Santander is gone now and we must look ahead. That was three weeks ago and the team’s upped their rhythm since then. It’s true that we didn’t play well, but we’ve drawn our lessons from that and I think Sunday will be a very different matter. It’s most important that we have the maximum number of players fit and available and that the team come out confident that they can win.

FC Barcelona must win Osasuna on Sunday in order to keep alive, the hopes of a favourable outing in the 2007/08 La Liga.