Unai Elgezabal will miss Levante’s home meeting with Osasuna on 8 May 2026 after being ruled out with a knee injury, the club’s selection problems sharpening the stakes for a side still rooted in the relegation zone.
Levante enter the fixture 19th in La Liga with 33 points from 34 matches, four points adrift of 17th-placed Sevilla, according to a 6 May 2026 report that previewed the match. The same report noted Levante have eight wins, nine draws and 17 defeats this season and have collected 20 points from 17 home matches. They arrive on the back of a heavy 5-1 reverse against Villarreal, but the preview also recorded a recent uptick — seven points from their last four games and only two losses in their last nine.
Osasuna sit clear of the relegation scrap in 10th with 42 points from 34 games and are five points shy of sixth-placed Celta Vigo, that report said. Osasuna have been strong at El Sadar, with the fifth-best home record in La Liga, but their away form has been a weakness: just two victories from 17 away league fixtures and 10 points collected on the road. Earlier in the season they beat Levante 2-0 in the reverse fixture, and the pair have met 33 times in total with Osasuna leading the head-to-head 16 wins to 13 and four draws.
Tactical headaches complicate both squads. Levante will be without Elgezabal and lost Kervin Arriaga to a milestone yellow card in the Villarreal game; Alejandro Primo, Dela, Paco Cortes and Adrian de la Fuente were listed as needing assessment, while Carlos Alvarez and Ivan Romero were described as major doubts in the same pre-match update. Osasuna, meanwhile, were coming off a 2-1 home defeat to Barcelona in which all three goals arrived inside the final 10 minutes and saw Raul Garcia score after coming off the bench, but they also report Victor Munoz sidelined with a muscular problem.
The tension is simple: Levante have shown resilience in recent weeks yet remain in the relegation places and have just one win in their last seven against Osasuna; Osasuna are a settled midtable side at home but fragile away, making this an oddly balanced meeting on paper. The immediate question for Levante is whether their patchy form and a shorter injury list than ideal will be enough at home, and for Osasuna whether their away struggles will blunt a team that can still hurt opponents late in matches. The answer arrives on 8 May — a win would lift Levante closer to safety and hand them momentum in the closing run, while anything less looks likely to leave their survival bid dependent on other results.
