Villarreal vs Granada LaLiga Match Preview or Key Statistics 📊
Villarreal have only lost two of their 12 LaLiga games against Granada (W7 D3), with both defeats coming at Los Cármenes (0-1 in September 2011 and 0-2 in March 2014).
Only against Real Zaragoza (11 – W6 D5) have Villarreal played more home LaLiga games without a defeat than against Granada (6 – W5 D1).
Granada have only collected points in one of their six LaLiga games against Villarreal at La Cerámica (D1 L5), in their highest scoring draw in the top-flight (4-4 in August 2019).
After winning 2-1 vs Levante and 4-0 vs Celta de Vigo, Villarreal could win three LaLiga games in a row for the first time under Unai Emery.
Granada have lost four of their last five away LaLiga games (W1) after losing only one of their previous 10 away from home in the competition (W5 D4).
Under Unai Emery, Villarreal have collected 32 points in 18 LaLiga games (W8 D8 L2), more than any other Villarreal manager in his first 18 games in LaLiga.
Gerard Moreno has scored 10 goals in 16 LaLiga games this season, the best tally for a Villarreal player in his first 16 appearances in a single LaLiga season since Ikechukwu Uche in 13/14 (11).
Only Real Madrid (7) have scored more headed goals in LaLiga this season than Granada (6) and they are the only side with three different players scoring more than one headed goal this season in the competition (Yangel Herrera, Jorge Molina and Germán Sánchez, two each).
Villarreal’s Unai Emery has only lost two of his 11 managerial games against Granada in all competitions (W8 D1), the last two as Sevilla boss in LaLiga 2015-16.
Granada’s Diego Martínez will manage his first LaLiga game against Unai Emery. He has failed to win in his two managerial games in the competition against Villarreal (D1 L1) but he drew in his only one at La Cerámica (4-4 in August 2019).
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