Madrid was saved by a penalty kick, but I have to admit that it's not easy to adapt quickly when you have to combine the habits of old players with new players and the new style of coach Xabi. So, give them time to understand each other. Madrid fans out there are surely impatient to see their team play as expected.
The only goal of the match was scored by Madrid through a penalty. There is no denying that Madrid was lucky. Scoring in this match was a big challenge for Madrid players. The players needed time to adapt to the match strategy of the great Xabi Alonso. And secondly, Osasuna played very badly defensively in this match.
Osasuna only had 2 shots in the whole match. I saw Osasuna take their first shot in the 43rd minute of the match. There was no interest in scoring among Osasuna players. Every player in the squad played the role of defender. It is very difficult to score against such a team.
Real Madrid dominated the match. If we thought we would see several goals from Madrid. 71% of the ball possession was by Madrid players. A total of 18 goals were scored by Madrid players. Hopefully, the performance of Madrid players will be sharper in the upcoming matches.
This was a very unsatisfactory result for Real Madrid in their first week of La Liga, especially in their opening home match. I even considered the goal disallowed, as the Osasuna player didn't foul Kylian Mbappé. The Osasuna player didn't touch Mbappé at all, but Mbappé himself deliberately fell.
From this match, I saw Real Madrid's finishing was very poor. They had many good chances to score, but failed to capitalize on them. As for Osasuna, they displayed a fairly strong defense, their defense was quite difficult to penetrate, even forcing Real Madrid players to attempt shots from outside the penalty area.
And yes, in that match, Real Madrid had over 70 percent possession, but all of that seemed meaningless when their finishing was still quite poor, with weak shots and poor shooting accuracy.