Granada vs. Barcelona: Team News, Preview, Live Stream, TV Info
Win, and it’s all over.
That is all that Barcelona have to think about as they head for Granada to meet a side with nothing to play for on the final day of the Primera Liga season, with Real Madrid breathing down their necks as they go to Deportivo La Coruna.
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Luis Enrique’s side have been in the unusual position of only having one match a week ever since they got knocked out of the UEFA Champions League, and so tiredness shouldn’t be an issue for the Catalans against opposition they have beaten on eight out of the nine occasions they have faced them.
Barca should win, but with La Liga not immune from final-day tension and drama, they’ll be determined to wrap up a victory with a minimum amount of fuss.
Date: Saturday, May 14
Time: 4 p.m. BST/11 a.m. ET
Venue: Estadio Nuevo Los Carmenes, Granada
TV Info: Sky Sports 3
Live Stream: Sky Sports
Last 6 Results
Granada
Drew 0-0 vs. Malaga
Lost 3-0 vs. Atletico Madrid
Won 5-1 vs. Levante
Lost 2-1 vs. Celta Vigo
Won 3-2 vs. Las Palmas
Won 4-1 vs. Sevilla
Barcelona
Lost 2-0 Atletico Madrid
Lost 2-1 vs. Valencia
Won 8-0 vs. Deportivo
Won 6-0 vs. Sporting Gijon
Won 2-0 vs. Real Betis
Won 5-0 vs. Espanyol
Team News
Granada
The impressive Nigerian forward Isaac Success will miss out for Granada, as will Diego Mainz and Dimitri Foulquier who are also out injured.
The rest of the side is likely to be made up of the team that won 4-1 at a much-changed Sevilla last weekend, when the visitors scored three times in the final 11 minutes to shock the UEFA Europa League finalists.
Granada boss Jose Gonzalez will likely call upon the same players who served him so well at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan, and his team are unlikely to feel any nerves in what is really a free shot for them after they confirmed their safety.
Possible XI: Fernandez, Lopes, Babin, Costa, Biraghi, Doucoure, Perez, Rochina, Cuenca, El-Arabi, Penaranda.
Barcelona
Bar goalkeeper Claudio Bravo, the "Gala XI" was rolled out for last weekend’s victory over Espanyol in the Catalan derby, and it is very likely to be so again.
Luis Enrique won’t be thinking about next week’s Copa del Rey final against Sevilla just yet, and if Bravo recovers and replaces Marc Andre ter Stegen, then he has everyone fit and healthy for this attempt at winning a second successive La Liga title and the club’s 24th overall.
Possible XI: Bravo, Alves, Mascherano, Pique, Alba, Busquets, Iniesta, Rakitic, Neymar, Messi, Suarez.
Key Men
Granada: Isaac Cuenca
He was never quite able to consistently make the grade with Barcelona after coming through La Masia academy, but Isaac Cuenca has now found a home at Granada, even if his contract with the club runs out at the end of the season.
If he wants a new one, then he is going the right way about it, scoring two goals in the win at Sevilla last weekend.
He’ll be the main threat to his old club’s title ambitions.
Barcelona: Luis Suarez
After 11 goals in his past four games, it couldn’t really be anyone else, could it?
Luis Suarez is demonstrating striking powers that are out of this world right now, with his remarkable haul of 56 goals in 51 games in all competitions this season something to take the breath away.
He’ll be determined to win a second La Liga title in his second year at Barca, and when he wants something, he usually gets it.
Odds (via Odds Shark)
Granada 10/1
Barcelona 1/4
Draw 5/1
