Granada/Pamplona Jan 22 (EFE).- Granada and Osasuna, separated by one point in the standings, face each other this Sunday at the Nuevo Los Cármenes with a common goal: to make their midweek defeats as visitors forget with a victory that allows them to get a little further from the descent and stay out of trouble.
The team led by Robert Moreno, fourteenth with 24 points against Osasuna’s 25, thirteenth, comes to the match after having seen a streak of seven days without losing be broken with last Thursday’s defeat in Getafe (4-2).
Reconnecting with the good defensive sensations, after being shipwrecked at the Alfonso Pérez Muñoz Coliseum, and returning to the path of victory is the objective of a Granada that now has seven points of advantage over relegation.
The Grenadians are awaited after the break by three substantial rivals such as Real Madrid, Real Sociedad and Villarreal, for which Moreno considers it key to overcome the rojillos to face these next duels without qualifying stress.
The Catalan coach has the casualties due to injury to Colombian winger Santiago Arias and playmaker Rubén Rochina, and, as happened against Getafe, Peruvian central defender Luis Abram will surely not be called up either, since Granada finalizes his departure to the Mexican Cruz Azul on loan until the end of the season.
It is foreseeable that he will make changes with respect to the eleven that he brought out against Getafe to look for fresh legs and oxygen, since there will be less than 72 hours of difference between one game and another. Players like winger Sergio Escudero and midfielders Álex Collado or Frenchman Maxime Gonalons have options to be starters.
Club Atlético Osasuna will play a vital match for their interests against a direct rival like Granada, with the recent defeat of Vigo in the memory that should not matter to a united group that fights for permanence at all costs.
Osasuna faces this match with the slump of the last game lost at the hands of Celta de Vigo, which was a severe setback after the green shoots shown at home against Cádiz, where the team left a notable improvement that could not be seen on the last day.
Osasuna’s coach, Jagoba Arrasate, has asked his pupils to be at a better “mental level” with the aim of scoring in a “cursed & rdquor; after a defeat in Vigo that prevented extending the victory against Cádiz in the form of points
Losses in defense could mark a match between two teams that share objectives and squad level, but that will not give their arm to twist in order to please their fans with new and vital points.
Arrasate has commented on the importance of expanding the forcefulness in both areas to achieve victory and has highlighted the importance of the mental circumstance, since despite the fact that the rival scores a goal first, they must “remain mentally strong to get a good result & rdquor; .
The rojillo coach has emphasized the strategy game of the Nasrid club, adding that his team will try to “deepen into the defects they may have.”
David García and Unai García have recovered from covid-19 and this Saturday they have trained with the group, so their coach will have to assess their evolution to line them up, to the detriment of Juan Cruz and Unai Dufur who put on a correct match in Vigo .
The red team is going through a bad streak away from El Sadar. There are already six days in which Osasuna has not seen a door far from his stadium. The attackers of the Navarrese team will have to grit their teeth to increase their record of happiness with new goals for the team. Win will not be missing. Positivism is one of the traits that characterizes a united squad that went through this bad patch last year and that in the present will fight to get out of it as soon as possible.
– Likely lineups:
Granada: Maximian; Quini, Victor Diaz, Raul Torrente, Escudero; Gonalons, Luis Milla, Álex Collado, Machís; Luis Suarez, Jorge Molina.
Osasuna: Sergio Herrera; Nacho Vidal, Unai Garcia, David Garcia, Manu Sanchez; Javi Martínez, Torró, Moncayola, Rubén García; Chimy Avila, Before Budimir.
Referee: Santiago Jaime Latre (C. Aragonés).
Stadium: New Los Cármenes.
Time: 14:00 CET (13:00 GMT).
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Positions: Granada (14th, 24 points). Osasuna (13th, 25 points).
The key: The defensive behavior of two teams that showed many gaps behind in their last meetings.
The fact: Osasuna has only won once in an official match at Granada, out of fifteen visits, and it was more than 63 years ago.
The phrases:
Robert Moreno, Granada coach: “We have to be ourselves again.”
Jagoba Arrasate, coach of Osasuna: “We need to be in good shape on a mental level”. “We must delve into the defects they may have.”
The environment: The Granada fans will occupy 75 percent of the capacity of Nuevo Los Cármenes, the maximum allowed by the current health restrictions, which forced the local club to stop selling tickets for this match last Friday. EFE
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