Osasuna 1-0 Getafe: Budimir Penalty Settles a Tight Night at El Sadar

There are nights when a stadium waits a long time for a goal and then spends the rest of the evening protecting it. Estadio El Sadar did that on Monday. Osasuna beat Getafe 1-0 in LaLiga Round 3, and the only finish that counted arrived in first-half stoppage time from the penalty spot. Ante Budimir tucked it away, the home side went in 1-0 up, and the second half became a study in how to keep a lead against a side that had more of the ball but far less of the danger.

The fixture: Monday 31 August 2026, 17:30 UTC, Estadio El Sadar, capacity 23,516. The result: Osasuna 1-0 Getafe, Budimir the scorer, and a table that now has Osasuna sitting fourth.

Match Result / Final Score

Osasuna 1-0 Getafe. Full time. The first half finished 1-0; the second half finished 0-0. Luis Miguel Ramis sent Osasuna out in a 4-2-3-1. Jose Bordalas Jimenez answered with a 4-4-2. One penalty, seven yellow cards, eight substitutions, and a shot count that finished 10-11. That is the skeleton of the night.

The scoreline is thin. The expected-goals line is not. Osasuna generated 1.71 xG against Getafe's 0.63. Two shots on target to one. Three big chances to two. Getafe held 54 percent of the ball and completed 346 of 422 passes. They still left Pamplona with nothing. Possession without a shot that hurts is just a long walk.

Key Moments / Recap Timeline

The first booking arrived before the first goal. Jorge Herrando went into the book on 17 minutes. Osasuna did not wait long to change the back line around that caution. On 39 minutes Flavien Boyomo replaced Herrando. That is an early defensive swap, the kind a coach makes when he would rather lose a starter than lose a centre-back to a second yellow before half-time.

Then the match found its only goal. In the 45th minute Djene was booked. In the second minute of first-half added time, Budimir scored from the penalty spot. The foul that led to the kick was not detailed; the taker is not in doubt. Budimir, already listed in the starting eleven as the point of the 4-2-3-1, did the simple, heavy thing strikers are paid to do: he put the ball in the net when the referee pointed at the spot.

Osasuna walked in at the interval with a lead they had earned on quality more than volume. Ten shots would come by the end; two of those found the target. The penalty was one of them. Getafe, for all the midfield traffic they would later produce, had not yet laid a glove on the scoreboard.

The second half opened with another home change. Jonathan Dubasin replaced Ruben Garcia at 46 minutes. From there the story tilts toward cards and fresh legs. Johan Mojica was booked on 58. Enes Unal followed on 60. Orel Mangala joined them on 65, the same minute Bordalas introduced Alberto Risco Alcantara for Andres Garcia. Getafe were collecting yellows in a cluster, which is usually a sign a team is arriving late to challenges it cannot win cleanly.

Osasuna were not saintly either. Iker Munoz was booked on 67 minutes and came off four minutes later, Lucas Torro taking his place. In the same 71st-minute window Raul Garcia replaced Aimar Oroz. Kike Barja came on for Moi Gomez on 78. On the other side N. Gudelj replaced Francho on 76, and Borja Mayoral replaced Martin Satriano on 87. Bordalas threw a recognised finisher on late. The finish never arrived.

Raul Garcia, on for only ten minutes, was booked on 81. That was the last caution of the night. The last substitution was Mayoral. The last meaningful number was still 1-0. Getafe had 11 shots and one on target. If you want a sentence that explains the second half, use that one.

• 17' — Jorge Herrando (Osasuna) yellow card
• 39' — Flavien Boyomo on for Jorge Herrando
• 45' — Djene (Getafe) yellow card
• 45+2' — Ante Budimir (Osasuna) penalty goal
• 46' — Jonathan Dubasin on for Ruben Garcia
• 58' — Johan Mojica (Getafe) yellow card
• 60' — Enes Unal (Getafe) yellow card
• 65' — Orel Mangala (Getafe) yellow card; Alberto Risco Alcantara on for Andres Garcia
• 67' — Iker Munoz (Osasuna) yellow card
• 71' — Raul Garcia on for Aimar Oroz; Lucas Torro on for Iker Munoz
• 76' — N. Gudelj on for Francho
• 78' — Kike Barja on for Moi Gomez
• 81' — Raul Garcia (Osasuna) yellow card
• 87' — Borja Mayoral on for Martin Satriano

Player Performances and Turning Points

Budimir is the easy headline because he scored the only goal. Fair enough. A penalty in 45+2 is the turning point in the most literal sense: before it the match is 0-0, after it Osasuna have something to defend. He started through the middle of a 4-2-3-1 that also listed Ruben Garcia, Moi Gomez, Aimar Oroz, Iker Munoz, Jon Moncayola and Sergio Herrera among the names asked to keep the shape once the lead existed.

The less glamorous turning point sits at 39 minutes. Taking Herrando off after a yellow is not a moment that fills highlight packages. It is the kind of decision that keeps a back four intact for the hour that follows a penalty. Boyomo came on and the home side still conceded only 0.63 xG. That is not an accident you can prove from a single substitution, but it is the number that sits next to the change.

Getafe's starting eleven had the look of a Bordalas side that wanted to be awkward: Djene, Kiko Femenia, Johan Mojica, Orel Mangala, Enes Unal, Martin Satriano, David Soria in goal. Unal and Satriano are the names you write when you expect a point on the road. Between them they did not put the ball in the net. Unal collected a yellow on 60 minutes. Satriano lasted until 87, when Mayoral arrived too late to rewrite the xG sheet.

The card cluster between 58 and 65 minutes is Getafe's other story. Mojica, Unal, Mangala. Three yellows in seven minutes. You can call that intensity if you like. You can also call it a team chasing a deficit with the wrong kind of contact. Osasuna's three yellows were more spaced out: Herrando early, Munoz after the hour, Raul Garcia late. Seven bookings in a 1-0 does not make it a war. It makes it a match that never quite settled.

Ramis used five substitutes, Bordalas three. Fresh attackers did not shift the shot-on-target count. Getafe finished with one. Osasuna finished with two. The penalty was the difference between a grind and a win.

Match Statistics

Read the table from the top. Expected goals says Osasuna created the better night by a wide margin, 1.71 to 0.63. Possession says Getafe had more of the ball. Shots say almost nothing: 10-11 is a coin flip. Shots on target restore the hierarchy, 2-1. Big chances, 3-2, lean the same way. Corners went to Getafe, 3-1. Passing accuracy went to Getafe as well. None of those second-line wins paid a goal.

That is the human reading. Getafe circulated the ball. Osasuna chose the moments that mattered. A 1-0 built on a penalty can look lucky until you put 1.71 xG next to it. Then it looks like a side that found one clear route and refused to leave a second one open. Getafe's 0.63 xG from 11 shots is the portrait of a team shooting without arriving.

Impact on the Standings

Osasuna sit fourth in a 20-team LaLiga table after three matches. Seven points. Two wins, one draw, no defeats. Three goals scored, one conceded, plus-two. The form line reads D-W-W. The live zone attached to that row is the Champions League league phase. It is early, and the snapshot will move, but fourth after three games is not a position you shrug at in Pamplona.

Real Madrid lead the division with nine points from three. Atletico Madrid and Alaves share seven points in second and third. Barcelona have six from two. Osasuna's seven from three puts them in that first cluster rather than the mid-table fog. They have scored only three league goals so far. They have conceded one. Tight, useful football. Monday was more of it.

Getafe are 12th. Three points from three matches, one win and two losses. One goal scored, four conceded, minus-three. Form L-W-L. A single goal across three league games is the number that should bother Bordalas more than the table row itself. Twelfth is livable in August. One goal is not a plan.

Where to Watch

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A Thin Scoreline, a Clear Night

Monday at El Sadar will not be remembered for a storm of goals. It will be remembered for a penalty that arrived just late enough in the first half to change the second, and for a home side that treated 1-0 like a job rather than a gift. Budimir scored it. Osasuna kept it. Getafe passed the ball around a lead they never cut into.

Seven points, fourth place, one goal conceded in three league matches. That is the picture Osasuna take out of Round 3. Getafe take a second defeat and the same lonely goal tally they arrived with. What remains is the score: Osasuna 1-0 Getafe. The rest is a penalty, a stubborn hour, and a table that already looks kinder in Pamplona than it does in Getafe.

Match data, line-ups, incidents and statistics in this report come from OneLightScore match data for LaLiga 2026 Round 3 after full time at Estadio El Sadar (capacity 23,516). League positions are a live snapshot and will move as other results land.