Granada vs Real Madrid discussion.

Saturday 2nd February.


Past 2 meetings:

Home - 2nd September 2012: Real Madrid 3-0 Granada

Away - 5th May 2012: Granada 1-2 Real Madrid


Injuries/Suspensions:

Granada - Fran Rico, Dani Benitez, Pape Diakhate, Moises Hurtado and Darwin Machis.

Real Madrid - Casillas, Pepe and Ozil.


Granada last 3 league results:

Sevilla 3-0 Granada
Granada 2-0 Rayo Vallecano
Getafe 2-2 Granada


Granada current league position: 17th.

1. Barcelona - 58 points
2. Atletico Madrid - 47 points
3. Real Madrid - 43 points
4. Malaga - 35 points
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17. Granada - 20 points

Finishing above Atletico would be like a trophy

Yeh I think we'll most likely catch them up soon.

If we don't win La Liga, I couldn't care less where we finished as long as we get CL and finish above Atletico. This season that position seems to be 2nd.

Ronaldo may surely start, but with so many important matches coming up, he can do with a rest.

How come Kaka isnt in the squad?

This would be a great selection as well, resting players.

__________Lopez/Adan
Ramos____Varane___Albiol___Coentrao
_________Khedira___Modric
DiMaria_________Ozil________Ronaldo
_____________Benzema

Higuain for maria on 70min.
Marcelo for ozil on 70min.
Callejon for Benzema on 75min.

Ozil is suspended.

I wonder why kaka never gets called when the players can do with a rest

anyways this will probably be the lineup:



I wondrr whether the reason for marcelo not playing is because Mou doesn't want to send him to brazil with the international break coming up

I think Essien will play RB but that's just me.

that could be an option as well quite frankly. but I am sure Mou would want to rest khedira who is very prone to niggling injuries.

I predict a easy victory for Real with 3-0 or 4-0 .

We don't have a game midweek, so maybe that's why players aren't rested.

Diego Lopez Arbeloa, Sergio Ramos, Varane, Coentrao, Xabi Alonso, Khedira, Di Maria, Modric, Cristiano, Higuain

hope marcelo at least comes on to get some game time.

he needs some time on the pitch.

embarrassing. we cant beat Granada with this squad.

modric is having a really poor game. worst than di maria. he cant replace ozil as the attacking midfield and in the middle, khedira is better than him at the moment.

it makes no sense starting modric, alonso and khedira together for me after this game. Of the three none of them seems to want to contribute or has meaningful contributions to the the attack.

maybe Kaka should have been in the squad.

no one knows what to do when they get the ball, even alonso.

shows how much ozil contributes to the team.

benzema flop of the match. ronaldo at least had some good attempts. benz misses an open net step it up son

Terrible game lol. Don't make any huge assessments guys, this team can clearly play better but are just not interested enough.

Benz's miss was hilarious lol

Crappy game as usual.

I think the problem is we're poor in the final third. It happens every time we lose. Just random crosses from Di Maria etc. Against Valencia they dominated possession, so we just had to counter. But when we're allowed possession, we don't really know what to do. Against Barca we played well because we didn't dominate possession.

We play at our best when we don't dominate possession imo.

0 shots on target still win, unlucky for Madrid you guys didn't look motivated at all.

ive found that ive fallen asleep during nearly half the matches this season. thats not a good litmus test.

Noone came to play.

Sad Khedira played....Sad Marcelo didn't get an entire game.

Boring game. When you have a midfield trio of Alonso, Khedria and Modric it presents no sense of attacking play as none of them want to contribute. Benzema flopping... It's a pain to watch a quality team play such garbage football...
Ronaldo still getting on the score sheet. I guess that's a boost for him...

Modric and Khedira were attacking. In fact even Alonso was attacking at times. It's just the final third play was poor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiD7fIqZL9M&feature=player_embedded