Recreativo and Osasuna are currently in the bottom two positions in La Liga and both sides are currently favourites for relegation.

Recre beat Mallorca 3-2 last week away, ending a winless run of 12 games.

Osasuna lost a three-goal lead last week, drawing 3-3 at home to Valladolid. That result was their third game in a row in which they are showing a turnaround in their previous fortunes.

Jose Camacho took over as coach in mid-October and they showed little improvement or difference from earlier in the season before Ziganda was sacked.

But in their last three games they have drawn 3-3 to Valladolid, 2-4 at Malaga and won 3-1 to Almeria.

Before that, they had gone through their first eleven games having scored just 3 goals and conceded just 11.

Recreativo have themselves scored just 9 this season and Osasuna are capable of winning this game with their newly found goalscoring touch.

But the bookies have quoted only $3.25 on the away win, sensing that Osasuna may well find themselves pulling themselves out of the zone soon enough.

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This is not great value. Instead, it may be worth looking at the Iranian midfielder Javad Nekounam. He has been given more of an offensive role under Camacho and he has scored in each of the last three games.

He is quoted at $6.00 with Bet365 to score anytime and those odds look fantastic for the in-form midfielder.

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Bet: Nekounam (Osasuna) to score anytime Odds: $6.00 Stake: 2pts Bookies: Bet365

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