La Liga Preview: Granada vs Real Madrid – Key stats, H2H, line-ups, prediction

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Granada host Real Madrid in the Spanish La Liga league this weekend and they will be looking to pull off an upset.

Venue: Nuevo Estadio de Los Cármenes, Granada.

Key Statistics

Real Madrid have won their last twelve matches against Granada in all competitions.

Real Madrid are undefeated in 29 of their last 30 games.

Granada have conceded 21 goals in their last six meetings against Real Madrid.

Head to head

Granada and Real Madrid have met 16 times in the past with Los Blancos winning 15 of those matches.

The home side have beaten Real Madrid just once prior to this weekend’s contest.

Latest performances in all competitions

Granada: LWDDWL

Real Madrid: WWDWWW

Granada

The home side have made a poor start to the league campaign and they are currently 17th in the table with just two wins from 12 league outings.

Furthermore, they have a disastrous head to hit record against Real Madrid and this could prove to be a tough outing for them.

Granada were beaten by Espanyol in their last game and they will be desperate to bounce back strongly here. They were unbeaten in their last four matches across all competitions prior to the defeat against Espanyol and it remains to be seen whether they can pull off an upset here.

Possible Granada starting line-up

Luis Maximiano, Quini, Victor Diaz, German Sanchez, Carlos Neva, Ruben Rochina, Luis Milla, Angel Montoro, Alberto Soro, Jirge Molina, Luis Suarez

Real Madrid

The Spanish giants are currently second in the league table just one point adrift of league leaders Real Sociedad.

A win here could take them to the top of the table provided the other results go their way and Carlo Ancelotti will want his players to step up and get the job done.

Real Madrid have an exceptional record against Granada and the Spanish giants will be expected to pick up a comfortable win here.

Possible Real Madrid starting line-up

Thibaut Courtois, Dani Carvajal, Eder Militao, David Alaba, Ferland Mendy, Casemiro, Toni Kroos, Eduardo Camavinga, Eden Hazard, Vinicius Jr, Karim Benzema

Prediction

Granada 0-3 Real Madrid