Barcelona – Granada CF (LIVE STREAM)

Barcelona and Granada play at the Camp Nou, in a duel of the 10th round of Primera Division. At this stage, the history of direct confrontation is in favor of the home team, which has 5 wins in the last five games. In fact, the last time they faced this stage was on 01/09/2016, in a game for the Primera Division that ended with the victory of Barcelona by (4-0). The goals of the match were scored by L. Messi (8 ‘, 14’ and 58 ‘) and Neymar (83’) for Barcelona. Although this is a game between 1st and 20th of the general classification, in fact it is un match between the 8th ranked at home games and the 20th as a visitor.
Barcelona Analysis
The home team is currently in 1st place with 19 points scored after 6 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats. In the penultimate match, won at home to Deportivo La Coruna by (4-0). In the last match, won out for Valencia by (2-3). Interestingly, this is a team that has achieved better results away than at home because won 12 points as visiting and only 7 in their stadium. In the last 4 games at home in the league, Barcelona recorded 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat, having won 7 points from 12 possible. Their attack has scored regularly since scored at least one goal in each of the last 9 games in this competition. En their matches at home there is a tendency for goals, since 31 to 33 ended with Over 2.5 goals marker.

Barcelona back to work at home the Spanish Championship after suffering a defeat to Espanyol by 0x1, in a game for the decision of the Supercopa de Catalunya. However, in the national championship the team has two consecutive wins. In the last round, the team had a great result by beating Valencia away from home for 2×3. Before there were thrashed Deportivo Coruna at home by 4×0. After nine rounds, the club accumulated six wins, one draw and two losses, ranking third. For this match, the coach should keep the team in the 4-3-3 or 3-4-3, and will be without Iniesta, who will be out for up to eight weeks because of an injury.
Granada Analysis
After 3 draws and 6 losses, the visiting team is in 20th position, having won 3 points. In the last match, drew with Sporting Gijon at home for (0-0), after the previous match he lost out in a match against Atletico Madrid, by (7-1). This is a stronger team in their stadium where he won 2 points, compared to only 1 in their games as a visitor. In the championship, Granada won 1 point in 12 possible after 1 draw and 3 defeats in the last four games he played as a guest.

For this competition, wins does 9 games. The defensive solidity has not been his strong point, since suffered goals in 8 of the last 9 games, but their attack has scored regularly since scored goals in 7 of the last 9 games for this competition. In their games out there is a tendency to have goals, since 18 to 24 ended with Over 2.5 goals on the scoreboard. This is a team that scores first few times: only opened the scoring in two of their last 9 games for the Primera Division, these two came to an interval lead in one but never managed to keep the advantage until the end of the 90 ‘. In 9 games in this competition, suffered the first goal 6 times and never managed to turn the score. There are 1 periods highlighted in last 5 games played as a guest for all competitions: 6 suffered their 17 goals between the minutes (61’-75 ‘).

The Granada the field for his tenth match the Spanish league still searching for his first win in the competition. In the last round, the team was only in the goalless draw at home to Sporting Gijon and could interrupt the sequence of negative results as coming from four consecutive defeats, the last of them a rout to Atletico Madrid by 7×1. The Granada is doing a bad campaign, being the only team that has not won the championship. The club accumulates six defeats and three draws. For this game, the coach must keep the team in the 4-4-2 or 4-5-1.