Granada 1-Real Sociedad 0 | La Real pays for its lack of ambition and moves away from the Champions League

The Champions League demands much more than what Real Sociedad was able to offer in Los Cármenes. You need a much more ambitious and fluid version of the one that Imanol's team showed in Granada to really aspire to fourth place. He sat for many minutes against a physically at the limit team and when he wanted to amend what he had granted for 60 minutes only showed inability and lack of ideas.

Granada once again raised a party full of guerrillas and emerged victorious in almost all of them. For many minutes they played what the Nasrid team wanted and Chance awarded the greatest local job by sending a rebound in Germán to the back of the net after a shot by Víctor Díaz that he was not going to goal.

La Real started with a clear physical advantage and was only able to prevail in the game when Granada's legs began to weaken., scorched by the indiscriminate amount of minutes he accumulates and by the inexhaustible carousel of injuries he suffers (the last to fall was Foulquier).

Germán's goal in minute 52 stirred something for the San Sebastian team. Imanol, who lost Silva in the first half after suffering a blow to the side of Eteki, moved the bench without success. Granada has forged its recent glory based on knowing how to suffer and the duel against Real was no exception.

The visitors showed a worrying lack of tusk and could not find a way to disarm the rojiblanco defensive framework. Not a single clear chance of scoring in the entire game is a negligible baggage for a Champions aspiring. For Granada, the victory tastes like glory, it keeps them in eighth place and allows them to prepare full of happiness for the second leg of the second round of the Europa League next Thursday in Budapest against Molde.

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Diego Martínez: “What the team has done is out of the rankings”

The coach of the grenade, Diego Martinez, believes that “the commitment” shown by his team was “brutal” to be able to beat Real Sociedad 1-0 this Sunday, adding that he is running out of “qualifiers” to refer to his players.

“We must congratulate everyone because what the team has done is out of the ranking”Diego commented at a press conference after a match in which many of his players “forced themselves to play” because they were not “one hundred percent”.

“These three points against a great team like Real have tremendous merit,” added the rojiblanco coach, who confirmed that the five changes he made were requested by his players but that these are “insignificant things in relation to the commitment of the team, which has been brutal. “

The coach of Granada saw a game “closed and of few occasions for both” recognizing that it was “the only way” that theirs had to “be able to win”, since they had to be “very successful in attack and defend with great order.”

“In their previous game, La Real generated 17 occasions, and that is outrageous. It is a team that has a very good technical level and defensively we have been very well organized and we have not had errors, “he added.

“When the minutes go by, the physical is more noticeable, but we have already started the game with less physicality, so the mental resistance and the attention to stay organized against a team that always finds free spaces inside have been magnificent” , he asserted.

Diego explained that “the qualifiers” for his players are running out and asked them to continue “with such a positive mindset, regardless of the circumstances” in a season that so far has been “outstanding.”

“I would like us to value the effort, attitude and commitment of these players. Any Granada player feels identified with this team, you have to believe in it always, when the result is favorable and when not.”

Bailiff: “We have lacked everything”

The coach of the Royal Society, Imanol Alguacil, believes that his team was not able to display their usual game due to the “defensive work” of the grenade, in the defeat suffered this Sunday by 1-0 against the Andalusians in the New Los Cármenes Stadium.

“They (Granada) played a great game, the one that interested them, and we didn't know how to do ours. It was an ugly match to watch, with hardly any rhythm, a very physical and tactical match in which one detail was going to mark the future, and that's how it was “said Alguacil at a press conference after the crash.

The realistic coach believes that “the fairest thing would have been a draw” and that the final result was produced “more by merit” of the local team than by “demerit” of theirs.

The realistic technician insisted that it was a “physical and balanced” shock, he asserted that It annoys him to receive a goal like the one scored by Granada, who came after a rebound, and believes that at all times they were in the crash and competed.

“If the game stops every minute it is difficult, without rhythm you are unable to overcome the pressure. We have lacked everything, they have done a great job and we have not been able to speed up the game or generate more situations,” he acknowledged Sheriff.

“You had to hit the pass, with the arrival, with everything. They force you to do everything very well and if we have not been able to play our game it is because of their defensive work,” he said.

On David Silva's injury, who had to abandon the crash shortly before half an hour, He noted that “he has noticed something with the knee (received in the back in a foul by Cameroonian Yan Eteki) “but he hopes that” it is not serious and that he is available “despite the fact that after the game” he could not move. “

Around Carlos Fernandez, who did not play any minute, clarified that “He noticed some discomfort on Saturday and he continued to have them” so they did not want to “risk” and on Monday they will do “the pertinent tests” trusting that it is not “nothing serious”.