Evenly matched teams: Granada vs Mallorca match preview

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Competition: Spain La Liga
Competition: Sun 19.December
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Nuevo Los Cármenes (23156 seats)

Granada are leaning on their home crowd to help them to win this match against Mallorca. Who is the winner at Estadio Nuevo Los Cármenes?

Insights:
  • Granada have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Mallorca have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

It's no vacation for neither Granada nor Mallorca as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

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Granada form and stats

The story so far in the La Liga for Granada at their home stadium (Estadio Nuevo Los Cármenes) is 2 wins, 2 draws and 3 defeats.

Granada are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 0-1 away versus Mancha Real. Escudero (midfield was the top team player in that game with a rating of 7.85/10. Escudero hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times and had 36 successful passes (of 42 total).

Before that, Granada played out a La Liga draw 1-1 when visiting Cádiz.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Granada have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 13 matches with the results: Won eight, drawn five and lost zero.

The match schedule is unforgiving for Granada as they have a new game in only three days, a La Liga match thankfully also at home. Atletico Madrid are visiting.

Granada has scored 9 league goals at home this season, in 7 matches. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 12 goals have been conceded.

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Mallorca form and stats

Mallorca have only collected 8 points from their away games in the La Liga, after 2-2-4 (8 played).

Mallorca play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 6-0 victory visiting Llanera. As mentioned above, Mallorca was the only team on the pitch versus Llanera in their previous game, winning 6-0. This could be a tougher task. Sedlar was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 9.15. The defender Sedlar scored two goals and won 4 of 5 duels.

Ahead of that game was the 0-0 draw at home against Celta de Vigo in the La Liga.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Mallorca playing away and similar expectations, we found four relevant matches. Results were four Mallorca wins, zero draws and zero defeats.

Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Mallorca have scored 8 goals in 8 league games away. Mallorca have conceded 16 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

Granada-Mallorca H2H statistics last nine meetings regardless of arena: Granada five wins, Mallorca one win, three draws. five of these nine matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

GranadaL. Suárez Charris
L. Suárez Charris
4 goals
GranadaJ. Molina Vidal
J. Molina Vidal
3 goals
GranadaG. Sánchez Barahona
G. Sánchez Barahona
2 goals

Granada missing players

Mallorca missing players

Granada Mallorca
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
16 7 1 Played P 2 8 17
3 2 0 Won W 1 2 4
7 2 1 Drew D 1 2 8
6 3 0 Lost L 0 4 5
17 9 1 Scored S 2 8 16
24 12 1 Conceded C 1 16 23
94% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 82%
81% 86% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 75% 59%
44% 57% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 50% 35%
25% 29% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 38% 29%
12% 29% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 12% 12%
62% 86% 100% BTTS BTTS 50% 62% 53%
19% 14% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 12% 35%
25% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 25% 29%
 
3.6 4.3 2 Corners for (avg) C F 6.5 4 4.1
5.9 5.4 6 Corners against (avg) C A 3.5 4.8 3.6
2.7 2.4 4 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 5 3.6 3.2
1 1 0 Red cards R C 1 3 4
 
9.8 10.1 8 Shots (avg) S ( 12 10.4 11.3
3.2 2.7 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 3.8 4.1
33% 47% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 25% 27% 23%
 
16.1 15.7 18 Shots against (avg) S A 11 14.2 11.9
5.6 6.1 6 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2 5.1 3.8
Key stats in La Liga this season:
  • Granada have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Granada have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Granada haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Mallorca have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Mallorca haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Real Madrid 17 13 3 1 39 15 8 6 2 0 18 5 9 7 1 1 21 10 24 42
2 Sevilla 16 10 4 2 26 11 7 6 1 0 18 6 9 4 3 2 8 5 15 34
3 Real Betis 17 10 3 4 30 18 9 5 2 2 19 10 8 5 1 2 11 8 12 33
4 Atletico Madrid 16 8 5 3 27 18 8 4 3 1 12 6 8 4 2 2 15 12 9 29
5 Real Sociedad 17 8 5 4 19 17 8 4 3 1 5 3 9 4 2 3 14 14 2 29
6 Rayo Vallecano 17 8 3 6 24 18 8 7 1 0 17 3 9 1 2 6 7 15 6 27
7 Valencia 17 6 7 4 26 23 9 4 4 1 16 10 8 2 3 3 10 13 3 25
8 Barcelona 16 6 6 4 25 19 9 5 2 2 16 9 7 1 4 2 9 10 6 24
9 Espanyol 17 6 5 6 19 18 9 6 2 1 14 7 8 0 3 5 5 11 1 23
10 Osasuna 17 5 7 5 17 21 9 1 5 3 7 13 8 4 2 2 10 8 -4 22
11 Athletic Club 17 4 9 4 13 12 8 3 2 3 9 8 9 1 7 1 4 4 1 21
12 Mallorca 17 4 8 5 16 23 9 2 6 1 8 7 8 2 2 4 8 16 -7 20
13 Villarreal 16 4 7 5 18 17 8 4 2 2 14 9 8 0 5 3 4 8 1 19
14 Celta de Vigo 17 4 5 8 17 21 9 1 2 6 8 14 8 3 3 2 9 7 -4 17
15 Granada 16 3 7 6 17 24 7 2 2 3 9 12 9 1 5 3 8 12 -7 16
16 Elche 17 3 6 8 16 24 8 2 4 2 9 10 9 1 2 6 7 14 -8 15
17 Deportivo Alaves 16 4 3 9 13 22 9 3 1 5 7 12 7 1 2 4 6 10 -9 15
18 Cádiz 17 2 7 8 15 31 9 0 5 4 6 14 8 2 2 4 9 17 -16 13
19 Getafe 17 2 6 9 11 20 8 2 2 4 8 9 9 0 4 5 3 11 -9 12
20 Levante 17 0 8 9 16 32 8 0 6 2 6 11 9 0 2 7 10 21 -16 8

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La Liga is the top professional level of the Spanish football league system. Is is often referred to as the Primera División and is considered one of the absolute top leagues of Europe and the world. 20 teams play 380 fixtures from August to May to create a final league table.