The Granada CF and the Real Betis face this Monday at the Estadio Nuevo Los Cármenes with the aim of achieving their first victory of the season in the clash that will close the fourth session of LaLiga 21/22. The locals, as their coach warned, wanting to compensate for the hard defeat suffered last day against Rayo Vallecano (4-0), with which they have had to carry the entire break. The visitors, after falling at home against Real Madrid (0-1) and just before starting their career in the Europa League against Celtic Scottish.
The team led by Manuel Pellegrini arrives in Granada with almost imperative to brand new locker of victories in LaLiga, where he has scored two draws to one against Mallorca and Cádiz and the aforementioned defeat at Benito Villamarín against Real Madrid. Today’s appointment seems crucial for Betis, although never decisive at this stage of the championship, to add three to avoid emergencies with a calendar ahead of five games in the remainder of September: against Scottish Celtic – next Thursday at Villamarín – and Hungarian Ferencvaros in the Europa League, and against Espanyol, Getafe and Osasuna in the league competition.
This circumstance, as Pellegrini himself has commented, will force him to manage your template background to dose your players without losing the obligatory competitiveness and efficiency, this aspect, the scorer, in which the Chilean group has not succeeded in the initial stages of the season.
For Los Cármenes, Pellegrini will have the majority of his troops with the exception of the Franco-Senegalese right-back Youssouf Sabaly, in the dry dock due to a muscle injury; and the mexican Diego Lainez, also with physical problems since his participation in Tokyo 2020. He falls off the list, in addition, Paul and still out Rober.
The great novelties of the list of 24 are the Brazilian striker Willian jose, who entered and could have minutes in his set-up after the soleus injury with which he arrived from Real Sociedad, and Héctor Bellerín, who even could count on your first ownership, sharing behind with Juan Miranda on the other side, with options also for a recovered Álex Moreno depending on how the Olivares defender arrived from his commitments with the sub 21.
The Portuguese goalkeeper returns to Granada Rui Silva, who has arrived at Betis after being free in the Nasrid team, in which he was consecrated, and who has taken ownership of the Betis framework ahead of Chilean international Claudio Bravo and Joel Robles, who travels as third goalkeeper and predictably It will be the discard that the Betis coach must make in his list of 24.
For the center of the rear, Pellegrini has already pointed the possibility of the return of Marc Bartra after overcoming some muscular problems that occurred in the preseason and that counts for the Chilean in a group of four centrals that complete the Argentine international German Pezzella, Victor Ruiz and the youth squad Edgar González.
The management of the squad invites you to think about combinations in the next matches, although players like the Argentine midfielder Guido Rodríguez, Sergio Canales and Nabil Fekir they seem essential. The Mexican Andrés Guardado and the Portuguese William Carvalho, in search of his best version, are the first options to accompany Guido in the axis of the engine room (the absence of Paul invites us to think about the ownership of the pivot), while ahead the variations go through names like Cristian Tello, Aitor Ruibal or Joaquín Sánchez, fundamentally.
For the clash against Robert Moreno’s men, the center forward could return to the axis of the attack Borja Iglesias placeholder image, who was a substitute against Real Madrid and who has before him the challenge of recovering the scoring efficiency with which he claimed in the second round of last season. The first call for Willian José, who arrives to compete directly for a place in the Betis eleven, urges ‘Panda’ to premiere this course.
For its part, the team led by Robert Moreno faces the clash with the sole objective of redeeming itself from what happened two weeks ago in Vallecas, where the bulky defeat was accompanied by a poor image. Granada hopes to make good in this regional duel the fact of playing in their stadium, where on the second day they came very close to beating Valencia against which they drew 1-1 at the end. In addition, they will have to play later against two very powerful teams such as Barcelona and the Real society, so he hopes to add his first triumph on this day to take a breath and not stagnate from the beginning in the lower zone of the classification.
Moreno has the entire squad at his disposal for the clash, as he has not been injured or penalized, including the last two reinforcements of the team: the wingers. Santiago Arias and Sergio Escudero. It is not expected that any of them will start, although there will be some variations in the eleven in relation to the team that fell to Rayo Vallecano, with the question of whether they will remain in the goal. Aaron Escandell or will Portuguese debut Luis Maximiano.
Regarding the previous clash, the coach recovers the Venezuelan winger Darwin Machis after overcoming a muscle problem and after confirming in recent days that he is staying at the club after having had offers to leave Granada. Players who did not act at the start in Vallecas, case of full-back Joaquín Marín ‘Quini’ or the midfielders Rubén Rochina and Ramón Rodríguez ‘Monchu’ they have options to gain a foothold in the starting eleven.
– Probable lineups:
Granada CF: Aaron; Quini, Domingos Duarte, Germán, Carlos Neva; Gonalons, Luis Milla, Monchu, Montoro; Bacca and Luis Suárez.
Real Betis: Rui Silva; Bellerín, Pezzella or Bartra, Víctor Ruiz, Miranda or Álex Moreno; Guido Rodríguez, Channels; Aitor Ruibal, Fekir, Rodri; and Borja Iglesias.
Referee: Guillermo Cuadra Fernández (Balearic Committee).
State: New Los Cármenes.
Hours: 22:00 hours (M+LaLiga).
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