Ante Budimir hits 100 La Liga goals but Rayo Vallecano hold Osasuna 1-1 at El Sadar

Ante Budimir reached a personal milestone at El Sadar, but it was not enough to give Osasuna all three points. The Croatian forward's acrobatic first-half finish was his 100th goal in Spain's top flight, and it put the home side ahead — only for Sergio Camello to draw Rayo Vallecano level after the interval and send the sides away with a point each.

It is the kind of result that fits the shape of both teams' seasons so far: two sides capable of scoring and conceding freely, neither able to build any real consistency through the opening seven rounds. Osasuna had lost three of their last five league games coming in, including a heavy 0-4 defeat away to Atlético Madrid the previous weekend, so a point at home was a reasonable outcome even if the manner of conceding it — after leading — will frustrate Alessio Lisci's side.

Osasuna's stretched run

The wider picture for Osasuna is a side that has gone from two wins on the spin — 2-1 at Celta Vigo, then 1-0 at home to Getafe — to three straight defeats without scoring more than a couple of goals across the whole run: 2-5 away to Alavés, 0-2 at home to Espanyol and, most alarmingly, 0-4 at Atlético Madrid the weekend before this draw. Across their last five league matches, Alessio Lisci's side have scored just four times and conceded twelve, so a point against Rayo Vallecano — even one built on squandering a lead — arrests a run that had been getting worse, not better.

Rayo Vallecano's stop-start form

Rayo Vallecano's season reads as a coin flip rather than a trend: defeat at Sevilla, a draw at home to Alavés, a heavy 2-5 loss at Barcelona, then back-to-back wins at home over Racing Santander and Espanyol sandwiched around a 1-4 defeat at Real Madrid. Five different results across the last five, never the same outcome twice running, and this trip to El Sadar fits the pattern: a share of the points after two straight home wins, on the back of two damaging results against the division's biggest sides.

Budimir's landmark season

Ante Budimir is 35 and has been at Osasuna since 2020, and this goal kept him as the club's leading scorer in 2026-27 with five in the league from seven appearances — more than anyone else in Alessio Lisci's squad this term. The Croatian forward has been the constant in an attack that has otherwise struggled for goals, and his finish at El Sadar was his side's only shot on target of the afternoon to actually find the net. At the other end, Camello's equaliser kept him as Rayo Vallecano's own top scorer with seven league goals from seven games — more than half of the eleven his side have managed as a team this season.

What's next

The draw leaves both clubs on 8 points from seven games as the full round settles: Rayo Vallecano 10th, Osasuna 11th, separated only by goal difference. Both sit three points clear of the relegation zone but five adrift of Sevilla in 5th, the Europa League place, as La Liga heads into the international break with neither side able to point to a settled run of form to build on.